With new CMS price transparency rules, the continued shift toward value-based reimbursement, and transition to a consumer-centric and highly digitalized healthcare experience taking center stage in 2019, we thought it would be nice to start the year off [...]

As soon as you’ve implemented an EHR, the conversation will undoubtedly turn towards optimization.  A 2017 study by KPMG in collaboration with CHIME reports that 38% of respondents ranked EMR/EHR optimization as their top choice for capital investments [...]

Today more than ever, technology is streamlining information and revenue flow in healthcare:

Think about the ways in which technology has improved and modernized your revenue cycle operations:

Performing Charge Reconciliation is critical for ensuring financial success and stability immediately following Go-Live, but it shouldn’t stop upon reaching an initial stabilization period. Departmental Charge Reconciliation needs to become an [...]

Computer Assisted Coding (CAC) continues to be a Coding and Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) industry hot topic, as the logical next step in resource containment and the focus on quality improvement. Today’s burning platform is to thrive in the [...]

See if this sounds familiar…your organization understands the importance of providing surgical services (65% of hospital revenue as generally reported[1]), and in fact, you cater to your surgeons and their requests. Strategic and IT initiatives that span [...]

What's more powerful than the perfect answer? A well constructed and delivered question. Questions can empower employees, guide conversations, and help discover hidden issues. There's at least one thing in common between top consultants, coaches, and [...]

Two weeks ago, we discussed general RTE optimization with Epic. Today, we will be doing a deeper dive into RTE and how it can impact front-end payment collection.

Ensuring patients complete referrals and orders for specialty services is vital to the health of your patients and your organization’s financial health. Yet, according to the Medical Group Management Association, only 50% of referrals result in a [...]