How Emory Clinic Uses Game-Based Principles to Boost Productivity
Leaders at Emory Clinic use gamification techniques to improve revenue cycle staff performance. In three months, A/R staff increased their productivity by 7.9 percent, trimmed six days from net days in A/R, and increased net payments by 6.2 percent.
Raising Red Flags for Coder Quality in ICD-10
By analyzing coder performance data, organizations pinpoint revenue vulnerabilities and mitigate reimbursement risk.
Two-Midnight Rule Redux
Concerns about the two-midnight rule continue, but experts insist that they can be overcome with better education of utilization review and case management staff.
Ask the Experts: ICD-10 Transition
Now that the ICD-10 conversion deadline has passed, what are the top issues that providers are seeing?
Ask the Experts: Medical Record Documentation
Please share a sample template for medical record documentation for implanting cardiac defibrillators.
HFMA Executive Survey: Revenue Cycle ICD-10 Readiness Survey
As hospitals and health systems address additional time for the ICD-10 transition, it will be key to recognize where efforts stand compared with others in such key areas as documentation training, coding support, contract analysis, and contingency planning. With this in mind, HFMA researchers, with sponsorship from 3M HIS, surveyed executive and revenue cycle leaders about current efforts and top challenges they are likely to face moving forward.
HFMA Comment Letter: CMS Should Test the Readiness for ICD-10 Implementation
HFMA urges CMS to undertake a comprehensive approach to testing the readiness of the Medicare contractors and state Medicaid agencies for the October 1, 2014, ICD-10 implementation.
HFMA Executive Survey: Clinical Documentation Meets Financial Performance
In this survey of hospital CFOs and other senior-level executives, HFMA researchers share industry views on areas of CDI priority, opportunity, common barriers, and use of outsourcing to support more accurate and complete documentation and charge capture.
Catholic Health East’s ICD-10 Workflow Analysis Survey
Hospital leaders can adapt this ICD-10 transition survey to identify potential migration pitfalls in outpatient departments.
Ask the Expert: Real-Time Coding Scrubber
This Revenue Cycle Forum Ask the Expert question asks if there is a real-time coding scrubber option out there.