Professional Credit: ‘The New Deal’ Approach to Healthcare Collections is Data-Driven and Consumer-Focused
Professional Credit’s President Scott Purcell and Chief Marketing Officer Jeff Johnson discuss the value of having a comprehensive and responsive collections partner.
Video: Optimizing Medical Group Revenue Cycle Performance to Meet Physician and Health System Goals
Emily Alverson, senior director at Huron Consulting Group, discusses key steps in how to optimize medical group revenue cycle performance.
Coding for Conscious Sedation
How has coding for moderate sedation and conscious sedation changed?
Cultivating Homegrown Inpatient Auditors
Building a team of internal inpatient auditors empowers revenue cycle leaders to proactively validate coding, determine regulatory compliance, and analyze clinical documentation. The best place to find qualified auditors is to train your own coders for the job.
Registration Academy Improves Performance
St. Joseph Health’s homegrown training program reduced the average training time for new hires by 25 percent and decreased training costs per trainee by $1,400.
The Dangers of “Downcoding” in Emergency Medicine
Kenneth J. Heinrich discusses how “routine emergencies” can result in lost revenue due to incomplete documentation.
Ask the Experts: Revenue Cycle Metrics
Do you have data on top decile and 50th percentile performance for revenue cycle metrics?
Two New Revenue Cycle Models For Three Key External Challenges
Kent Ritter continues his discussion of how a healthcare organization might look to implement measures to improve its revenue cycle.
Consumers Have Less Credit Available to Fund Their Care
A survey reveals that patients may have less money to fulfill their financial responsibilities because revolving credit had declined for consumers by approximately 26 percent.
Self-Pay Patient Financial Liability: A Hospital’s Biggest Post-Election Challenge
As a result of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act and rising self-pay responsibility among consumers, a growing number of consumers could find themselves unable to pay their portions of their healthcare bills, raising financial challenges for providers.