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Hospital Zero-Base Pricing®: A Novel Approach to Establishing Rational Chargemaster Prices

Today’s environment necessitates that healthcare CFOs and financial managers can explain, document, and defend the rationale behind their CDM prices. This whitepaper discusses why financial managers who previously had optimized their chargemaster prices or inherited irrational chargemasters should consider a hospital zero-base pricing initiative.

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National CC/MCC Capture Rate and Case Mix Index Study. A nationwide analysis of hospitals’ case mix index trends and CC/MCC capture rates since the implementation of ICD-10. 

Since the October 1, 2015 commencement of I-10, both case mix index trends and CC/MCC capture rates nationwide have improved by 2.8% and 0.8% respectively. Years of coding and documentation training to address the tenfold increase in available codes and the need for improved specificity and documentation under I-10 appears to be paying off overall

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Managing the Chargemaster as the Fuel of the Revenue Engine

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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