As healthcare costs continue to rise, employers and benefits managers are increasingly prioritizing strategies to reduce employee inpatient readmissions. Beyond the financial burden, readmissions disrupt productivity, impact workforce morale, and highlight potential gaps in care coordination.
Discover the state of telehealth and why it is a viable option for providing convenient, high-quality care to those in need.
Patient registration is an often undervalued, yet significant opportunity to enhance the patient experience.
CDI is no longer just a process of adding notes to the electronic health record; it has become a more strategic initiative with far-reaching implications.
With sluggish margins and continuing labor shortages, provider organizations cannot afford a status-quo approach to denials.
Just as hospitals, health systems, and physician practices are dealing with unprecedented financial and operational challenges, denied claims continue to rise—especially medical necessity denials.
This article will explore the impact of training and development on building an optimally performing patient access team.
Outsourcing all or a portion of the revenue cycle allows providers to achieve optimal revenue efficiencies with lower costs and less overhead.
For hospitals, health systems and physician practices, delivering excellence in care and providing the best outcomes for patients drive what you do. However, there is a financial side to healthcare, and it’s highly complex.
Compliance management in the mid-cycle can help improve financial viability for hospitals and health systems.
Discover the mid-cycle compliance challenges for hospital systems and proven strategies to help ease the burden of compliance and avoid unnecessary revenue loss.
This blog post covers the four areas hospitals should be focused on to achieve mid-cycle best practices and protect their bottom line.
Discover three interventions providers can implement now to help protect themselves from lagging reimbursements.
Telehealth regulations are shifting, and providers need a strategy to navigate the changes. Learn about what’s changing and what’s staying the same.
Hospitals need sophisticated technologies to better understand payer behaviors that impact the revenue cycle. Predictive analytics and AI is a great place to begin.
The quality of a hospital’s revenue cycle processes directly impacts the health of its bottom line. Learn four opportunities to Improve Mid-Cycle Revenue Operations
Revenue cycle leadership is changing. Here are five skills today’s revenue cycle leaders need to drive financial prosperity in a post-pandemic ecosystem.
With solutions from Conifer Health and Waystar, hospitals can improve efficiencies, optimize revenue, enhance patient care, and stop chasing revenue on the back end.
One of the challenges hospitals face in this new patient-as-payer reality is that revenue cycle was designed around payer reimbursement, not patient payments. In this article, Conifer discusses five solutions to this challenge.
Even with the increased focus on automation, too many revenue cycle operational processes remain highly manual and resource-intensive. This is especially true for mid-cycle processes.
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic will likely continue to impact healthcare systems for years to come. Implementing digital strategies will help relieve the burden on administration, physicians, and nurses, allowing them to focus on what they do best: patient care.
Hospitals need to do all they can now to make it easier for patients to access and pay for the services they need. If we wait for full compliance, it will never happen and hospital revenue cycles will continue to suffer.
Providers and payers must adapt to workforce capacity restraints, consumerism, evolving regulations, increased risk and vigilant financial management to solve new and complex problems.
Strategic outsourcing ensures more confident, better trained staff, speedier turnaround times and maximized returns. Outsourcing key stages of the revenue cycle process, especially those that are patient facing, can increase productivity and maintain positive patient relationships.
Eligibility and Enrollment services optimization is more critical since the great resignation to prevent newly uninsured patients from increasing bad debt costs.
Four key areas where hospital revenue cycle leaders can address these issues with a more strategic approach.
Automating the prior authorizations can help reduce denied claims, decrease errors and streamline the process.
This article examines how organizations that adopt a three-tiered best practice approach to coding can improve reimbursement while maintaining coding quality and compliance.
This blog examines the value of improving efficiencies through automation and expanding the labor pool by leveraging best-cost geographies
By simplifying pre-registration and arrival tasks for scheduled appointments, staff members are free to handle non-scheduled events and complete the process in less time.
This blog examines the value of a strategic partner when examining and executing cost-reduction strategies
After implement the No Surprises Act by the January 1, 2022, deadline, providers must now shift attention to refining their processes for what lies ahead.
This blog looks at the link of health system transparency to patient trust needed for health systems to meet patient expectations.
CMS Direct Contracting Can Improve the Health of Your Patients and Your Practice
This article looks at how healthcare companies can Curate Knowledge in the digital age and how mining data sets can bring new insights.
This article explores why addressing patient concerns is critical to help achieve better health for patients and financial health for your organization.
This article looks at the growing need for hospitals and health systems to focus on authorization services, medical necessity requirements and medical documentation services to maintain financial health.
This article examines how focusing on prior authorization is a necessary step in care delivery and is critical to mitigate denials.
This article examines why health systems should look at their routine care model and find innovative ways to deliver the right care, at the right time, in the right place for their patients and community to sustain market relevance.
Strategic partners may be useful to help engage consumers and increase health systems margin pressures for long-term sustainability.
Discover Why Hospitals Focused on Consumerism are Targeting the Mid-Revenue Cycle
Discovery The Transformative Impact of a Technology-Forward Revenue Cycle
Technology advancements are enabling health systems to meet consumer’s expectations and deliver a unified patient-centric experience while elevating patient access team members.
Without a well-established clinical documentation improvement program in place, healthcare organizations’ risk rankings falling short of achieving clinical documentation integrity which underscores how critical accurately delivered and documented care reflects the well-being of individual patients and an organization’s financial health. Here are three reasons why implementing a CDI program can prove beneficial to your healthcare organization.
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