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Revenue Cycle Strategist: May 2019 Issue

Subscribers to Revenue Cycle Strategist may access the individual articles below. Patient Access How Texas Health Resources improved patient access and preservice revenue BY LOLA BUTCHER The health system uses a centralized preservice financial clearance department and automated dialers to contact 98 percent of scheduled patients before they receive services.  Web extra: Texas Health Resources preregistration pamphlet Patient…

HFMA September 11, 2019

How providers should adapt to the demands of a consumer-driven healthcare system

Insights during a 2019 HFMA Annual Conference cohort revealed various approaches that providers can use to meet the increasingly urgent challenge of improving the patient experience.

HFMA September 4, 2019

What to know before rolling out a PSHP

Healthcare organizations that are launching a provider-sponsored health plan should consider four recommendations.

HFMA August 31, 2019

Change Healthcare: Curbing Bad Debt by Improving the Patient Financial Experience

In this roundtable, several revenue cycle leaders discuss how they are tackling escalating patient responsibility, exploring the value of putting individuals on pathways toward payment that boost satisfaction and revenue.

HFMA August 31, 2019

Ontario Systems: Helping Healthcare Organizations Realize the Benefits of an Accountable Collections Team

Steve Scibetta, vice president and general manager at Ontario Systems, offers strategies for optimizing the revenue cycle, including employing supportive accounts receivable technology and building an accountable collections team.

HFMA August 31, 2019

BLS|Revecore: Technology-Driven Underpayment Review Services

In this article, BLS|Revecore talks about how its underpayment review technology and deep industry expertise help organizations collect dollars that would otherwise go unrecovered.

HFMA August 31, 2019

Navigant Consulting, Inc.: Hospitals and Health Systems Prepare to Assume More Risk

: This research highlight discusses key takeaways from a May 2019 HFMA study of hospital and health system senior financial executives about their organizations’ interest in and capabilities for assuming risk.

HFMA August 31, 2019

Revenue Cycle Strategist July/August 2019

The July/August 2019 issue of Revenue Cycle Strategist newsletter features articles on payer EHR integration, price transparency, chargemaster strategies and KPIs for Medicaid eligibility.

HFMA August 22, 2019

Revenue Cycle Strategist June 2019

HFMA's Revenue Cycle Strategist newsletter June 2019 issue features articles on value-based payment, coding and Medicaid regulations.

HFMA August 22, 2019

Revenue Cycle Strategist: April 2019 Issue

Subscribers to Revenue Cycle Strategist may access the individual articles below. Patient Access Northwell Health Tackles Patient ID Matching BY LOLA BUTCHER Patient-identification-matching problems increase as the healthcare industry consolidates, but patient-matching solutions are available to reduce the backlog of duplicate records as an intensive effort by one health system proves. Coding Q&A Coding Denial Trends—How to…

HFMA August 22, 2019