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Just the Fax? Seeking New Ways to Improve Revenue Cycle Processes

Forward-looking hospitals are seeking ways to better assess revenue cycle performance. HFMA recently launched MAP, a comprehensive revenue cycle strategy, to help hospitals meet this need.
Back to School

Once in a while, revenue cycle change is akin to a new beginning. Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Okla., had that experience.
Measuring the True Return of Your Hospital's Revenue Cycle

Calculating the yield of revenue cycle initiatives can help hospitals better determine the value of these initiatives-and where to focus hospital resources.
Managing the Physician Revenue Cycle

Hospital leaders entering the physician practice acquisition pool should take into account the inherent differences between hospital and physician revenue cycles.
Revenue Cycle Progress

HFMA has come a long way from the beginnings of its Patient Friendly Billing project to its substantial MAP initiative.
Crucial Policies for Physician Practice Management

Learn the crucial policies a physician practice should have in place for revenue cycle management.
Providence Health & Services California Region Revenue Cycle Daily Flash Report

This report helps Providence Health and Services—California Region monitor revenue cycle performance issues on a daily basis.
Developing a Revenue Integrity Improvement Plan

A first step in plugging leaks from hospital revenue cycle operations is to implement a revenue integrity improvement plan.
Does Your Organization Have a Central Processing Office?

A central processing office improves revenue cycle performance of hospital-owned physician practices by giving accountability for results, at each step, to the person with best access to patients.
Physician Practice and Hospital Revenue Cycle Drivers: What's the Difference?

Hospitals should understand the distinct differences in revenue cycle management between hospitals and physician practices and provide the appropriate support.
Quest for Revenue Cycle Improvement

HFMA has taken a major step toward supporting hospitals' revenue cycle performance improvement efforts with its new MAP initiative for revenue cycle excellence.
Hospitals Join Forces to Transform the Revenue Cycle

How four hospitals in Providence Health & Services' California region surpassed 77.8 percent of revenue cycle targets--up from 29.6 percent.
Courting a Better Bottom Line with Probate Recovery

The probate process is a way to recover hospital payment while respecting the feelings of the patient’s loved ones and protecting the hospital’s reputation and bottom line.
Success Under Reform Through Revenue Cycle Excellence

A comprehensive self-analysis of the revenue cycle will uncover abundant opportunities for bottom-line improvement.
List of Potential Impacts and Risks of Implementing ICD-10

In their efforts to improve revenue cycle performance, hospitals should consider the potential impacts and risks of implementing ICD-10 and develop a work plan to address overall recommendations.
Jim Zadoorian: A New Approach to Receivables Performance

Learn why medical receivables underperform and what to consider when determining whether to access the market.
Sample Preservice Financial Checklist and Script for Front-Office Staff

View a sample financial checklist, with a script for use by front-end staff.
Preparing Your Organization's Training Program for ICD-10

Hospitals should understand how to assess their ICD-10 readiness, train staff, and predict the costs of converting to this new system.
Decoding the Alphabet Soup of Future Audit Risks

2011 will bring a rise in audit threats facing healthcare organizations. Zone program integrity contractor audits, which can look back 10 years, are potentially most onerous.
From Promise to Reality: Achieving the Value of an EHR

Providers of all sizes can reap both tangible and intangible benefits from an EHR investment.
Adopting a Data-Driven Approach to Underpayment Recovery

Presbyterian Healthcare Services used data-mining technology to help curb revenue loss and recover millions of dollars in underpayments.
Sample of Revenue Cycle Work Plan

In their efforts to improve revenue cycle performance, hospitals should consider the potential impacts and risks of implementing ICD-10 and develop a work plan to address overall recommendations.
Leave No Money on the Table

Improved management of commercial health plan contracts is critical to meeting financial targets, particularly in an era of reform.
Responding to Reform: 5 Strategies for Reinventing the Revenue Cycle

Healthcare finance leaders can drive enhancements in revenue cycle processes and performance that can help to ensure their organizations' success in an era of reform.
Pricing Transparency or Smoke Screen?

Does your pricing policy help you or hurt you?

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Billings + Collection

Just the Fax? Seeking New Ways to Improve Revenue Cycle Processes

Back to School

Measuring the True Return of Your Hospital's Revenue Cycle

Managing the Physician Revenue Cycle

Revenue Cycle Progress

Crucial Policies for Physician Practice Management

Providence Health & Services California Region Revenue Cycle Daily Flash Report

Developing a Revenue Integrity Improvement Plan

Does Your Organization Have a Central Processing Office?

Physician Practice and Hospital Revenue Cycle Drivers: What's the Difference?

Quest for Revenue Cycle Improvement

Hospitals Join Forces to Transform the Revenue Cycle

Courting a Better Bottom Line with Probate Recovery

Success Under Reform Through Revenue Cycle Excellence

List of Potential Impacts and Risks of Implementing ICD-10

Jim Zadoorian: A New Approach to Receivables Performance

Sample Preservice Financial Checklist and Script for Front-Office Staff

Preparing Your Organization's Training Program for ICD-10

Decoding the Alphabet Soup of Future Audit Risks

From Promise to Reality: Achieving the Value of an EHR

Adopting a Data-Driven Approach to Underpayment Recovery

Sample of Revenue Cycle Work Plan

Leave No Money on the Table

Responding to Reform: 5 Strategies for Reinventing the Revenue Cycle

Pricing Transparency or Smoke Screen?

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