Ontario Systems: Maximizing Revenue While Improving Productivity
Shawn Yates, director, healthcare product management for Ontario Systems, discusses the value in leveraging technology to boost revenue recovery.
Linking Professional Fee and Facility Fee Data to Get the Big Picture
Matching patient and encounter data helped one Vermont hospital overcome the challenges of working with two different billing systems for its facility and physicians.
Avoiding the Costliest Denials
Eligibility, outpatient medical necessity, and case management authorization continue to be three of the costliest denials. To avoid the negative effects of these types of denials, it is critical to implement an improvement process based on data.
3 Tips to Ensure Information Governance Success
A hospital health information director shares three strategies to help organizations form an information governance structure.
Children’s Health Raises Efficiency with Revenue Cycle Information Governance
To leverage its data assets toward population health management and other strategic goals, Children’s Health embarked on an information governance initiative that manages data throughout its lifecycle and organizationwide.
Using Palm Vein Technology to Accurately Identify Patients
“If a person gives five different names over a five month period, we are still able to get the correct patient medical record to the treating provider, regardless of the patient’s name,” says Kandy Swanson, BayCare Health System.When patients present
How Ochsner Health System Uses E-Signatures and Self Check-In to Drive Patient Satisfaction
Ochsner Health System’s efficient check-in process addresses patients’ demand for convenience and expediency and saved the health system approximately $48,000 by decreasing document volume.
Raising Red Flags for Coder Quality in ICD-10
By analyzing coder performance data, organizations pinpoint revenue vulnerabilities and mitigate reimbursement risk.
Ask the Expert: Getting Staff to Embrace Bedside Registration
Advice for revenue cycle leaders on getting hospital staff to adopt bedside registration or workstations on wheels.
Ask the Expert: Recording Meaningful Use Payments
HFMA's Principles & Practices Board is working on publishing guidance on the recording of meaningful use payments.