Tag: Revenue Cycle Management

Boost Revenue By Getting Coding Right

Boost Revenue By Getting Coding Right

It’s every physician’s worst nightmare: Receive payment for services rendered, but then a payer identifies an aberrant pattern in claims data, audits the records, decides it has overpaid the practice, and recoups those funds. That money you already allocated for overhead, staff salaries, bonuses, or new medical equipment? Gone. With one post-payment audit, you now […]
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Robotic Process Automation

Advancements For RPA In Healthcare

Healthcare organizations are increasingly becoming conscious about improving costs as well as the quality of service to consumers. Technology is growing at an unimaginable speed and the impact it has on every sector is unfathomable. A report by Global market insights pegs the growth of the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) market to reach $5bn by […]
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Artificial Intelligence in RCM

How AI Can Create A Massive Competitive Advantage – 4 Financial Applications

Healthcare organizations have a tremendous opportunity to harness artificial intelligence in an area that may not seem flashy but is important nonetheless: revenue cycle management. Although 94 percent of companies firmly believe AI can give healthcare organizations a “massive competitive advantage,” according to Change Healthcare’s Adam Sullivan, PhD, less than 5 percent have extensively incorporated […]
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A Patient-Centered Approach To Revenue Cycle Tech Strategy

A Patient-Centered Approach To Revenue Cycle Tech Strategy

A strategic approach to patient-centered revenue cycle technology strategy should be enabled by predictive analytics and machine learning to help customize the payment experience, refine communication messages, and give proper feedback to continually improve back-end processes. The path to financial health for hospitals and health systems has shifted and is rematerializing in a way that […]
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Using Artificial Intelligence To Advance Revenue Cycle Management

Using Artificial Intelligence To Advance Revenue Cycle Management

Artificial intelligence (AI) is making big waves in healthcare from detecting lung cancer and gene mutations that lead to autism to addressing social determinants of health and chronic conditions. The technology is automating and optimizing clinical workflows, leading to improved outcomes, lower costs, and enhanced patient and provider satisfaction. The critical role artificial intelligence now plays in healthcare prompting some providers to […]
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AMA on Evaluation and Management Service Codes Guidelines

AMA on Evaluation and Management Service Codes Guidelines

Medical coders who were unsure what documentation non-Medicare payers would expect in light of the Patients Over Paperwork Initiative now have more to go on. The initiative reduced documentation requirements for outpatient evaluation and management service codes (CPT® 99201-99215) provided to Medicare Part B patients beginning in 2021. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) indicated in their initiative that, although […]
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Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act

Thinking Strategically About MACRA and MIPS: Will it Be Sink or Swim in 2019?

In Part One of this two-part article exploring the implications of MACRA for healthcare providers, healthcare leaders and health IT experts discuss why it’s critical for clinicians to think strategically, rather than tactically, about MACRA compliance. Numerous industry surveys have highlighted that U.S. physicians, by and large, remain unprepared for managing and executing Medicare Access […]
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Customize Patient Financial Encounters For Revenue Cycle Success

Customize Patient Financial Encounters For Revenue Cycle Success

Healthcare is a top priority for American voters and there aren’t dramatic differences by ideology, according to a new survey. Adopted from the marketing industry, customer segmentation allows health systems to further customize the patient financial experience and help them get paid. Key Takeaways Tailor billing strategies and patient payment options to a financial situation […]
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