As healthcare has evolved with EHR practices, transitioning responsibilities have called for the need to re-define a fundamental discipline of the revenue cycle. Standardly, the revenue cycle is comprised of five main parts: access, charging, coding, [...]

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 1^st quickly approaches, and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

• Why does my medical record not contain everything that happened to me during my stay?
• Why does this version of my record not look like the previous version that you provided to my lawyer?
• Why does the record you gave me last month look completely [...]

Do you ever wonder how you could decrease your coders' workloads? Have you heard other organizations talk about simple visit coding accounts? Or do you simply wish there was a way to automatically code basic visits?