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A New Years’ Resolution You Can Keep…Clarity Around OPPS Impact!

Every year we make a plan to ensure our preparedness for the Outpatient Prospective Payment Systems (OPPS) impact…unfortunately, daily operations and multiple intersecting priorities replace good intent!  And each year January 1st quickly approaches, and [...]

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April Vogel Joins The Wilshire Group as Senior Consultant

(Los Angeles, CA) February 21, 2017 – The Wilshire Group, a leading healthcare consulting firm, has added April Vogel, RHIA, CHC to its team as a Senior Consultant. In this role, April will focus on engagements dealing with Revenue Cycle, Health [...]

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‘I can’t find the Advanced Directive’ & Other Major Problems Your HIM Department Can Prevent

A few weeks back I wrote an article about the importance of not overlooking paper in today's electronic healthcare world, while pointing out some critical considerations to take into account during a Document Management System (DMS) or Electronic Health [...]

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Re-engagement: How Do I Start a New Project?

We’ve all been there. You're sitting in a meeting and someone brings up something your department is not excelling at right now. You look around, kind of embarrassed and acknowledge that yes, we know this is something we need to work on….it’s just been [...]

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Make Haste on Drug Waste with Modifier JW!

JW Modifier: Drug Amount Discarded/Not Administered to any Patient

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Dave Jansen Joins The Wilshire Group as Senior Consultant, HIM

The Wilshire Group, a leading healthcare consulting firm, has added Dave Jansen to its team as Senior Consultant. In this role, Dave will be responsible for developing and managing sustainable solutions for healthcare organizations’ HIM departments, with [...]

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To Scan, or Not to Scan...

Whether you are implementing a new Electronic Health Record (EHR), integrating your current EHR with another EHR, or installing a Document Management System (DMS) for the first time, there is something that you should not overlook: paper. Although the [...]

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Keep Coders Coding!

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The Importance of Denials Prevention

Denials management is one of those evergreen topics that is always on the mind of a revenue cycle practitioner - coming up with new ways to solve, implementing the newest tools, the fanciest follow-up methodologies, etc. The reality is that once you have [...]

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Jennifer Esterbrooks Joins Wilshire as Director of Health Information Services

The Wilshire Group, a leading healthcare consulting firm, has named Jennifer Esterbrooks as Director of Health Information Services. In this expanded role, Jennifer will lead health information services development and progressive alignment of the [...]

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