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Webinar: Avoiding Claim Rejections and Revenue Disruption in Your Clinic

September 7, 2017 in /by

Are you are seeing rising claim rejections in your practice? You’re not alone. Learn how you can assess coding accuracy and documentation as a strategy for improvement.

In this on-demand webinar, Dr. Stephen Spain, FAAFP, physician advisor to Career Step, and Becky Rodrian, CCS-P, CPC, CPEDC, CBCS, MBS, CEMC, BSN, director of consulting services as Panacea, discuss how you can assess the accuracy of your coding.

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Whitepaper: 8 Steps to Reveal Incremental Revenue and Reduce Risk Related to “Lesser-of” and “Stop-Loss” Contract Clauses

September 7, 2017 in /by

Restructuring of the hospital’s chargemaster in this era of transparent pricing often results in material increases and decreases in line item charges to align with market norms, unit costs, or a hybrid thereof. Learn how your organization can enhance its financial performance in this environment.

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Whitepaper: Managing the Chargemaster As The Fuel of the Revenue Engine

September 7, 2017 in /by

Hospital leadership responsible for achieving financial goals that include revenue growth, expense management, and operating margins is facing the growing importance of chargemaster integrity. We attribute the challenge of managing financial goals to the accuracy of charge data, complex systems impacting the ability to view the data, and the rapidly changing healthcare environment.

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Whitepaper: Combating Denials and DRG Downgrading

September 7, 2017 in /by

Payer strategies are evolving quickly, and healthcare organizations must be alert to make the most of revenue opportunities while mitigating claims denials. In light of recent denials and DRG downgrading by payers, how your organization adapts will profoundly affect your reimbursements. An organization’s own internal review can set the stage for monitoring and remediating any inappropriate downgrading of DRGs by the payer.

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Mergers + Acquisitions: Is Your Chargemaster Strategy Sound?

September 7, 2017 in , /by

Expansion — through mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and other strategic partnerships — has become an important tool in a hospital’s strategic wheelhouse. As your footprint expands to encompass the entire continuum of care, how do you ensure your chargemaster strategy is sound and consistent?

We break this question into two parts — soundness and consistency — for good reasons:

First, in an era of increased public price scrutiny, hospital CFOs must ensure that their chargemasters are defensible and can be clearly explained to outside observers and auditors.

Second, mergers, acquisitions and other affiliations often bring under a single umbrella organizations that may have very different pricing and coding methodologies, practices and strategies.

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Payer Denials: Can You Win on this New Battleground?

July 31, 2017 in /by

In today’s complex health care environment, in which CMS and insurers each maintain their own claims-related “rules,” disputes, DRG downgrades and denials are all-too common.

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Webinar: Effective Chargemaster Management As The First Line of Defense for Revenue Integrity

July 31, 2017 in /by

Charge data and coding accuracy is more important than ever—but the challenges facing healthcare organizations have also grown exponentially. Help your organization stay ahead of the chargemaster curve with our complimentary one-hour webcast.

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Webinar: How to Combat Denials and Avoid DRG Downgrades

July 8, 2017 in /by

Are you are seeing rising claim rejections in your practice? Maybe you’re experiencing a slowing of reimbursement and consequential reduction in revenue since ICD-10. Learn how coding accuracy can reduce these denials and improve your results.

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