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With almost 80% of cell phone owners reporting they use text messaging,1 it is no surprise that physicians are doing the same.
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Would you consider having some of your registrars work from home? Some organizations are successfully doing this, reports Keith Weatherman, CAM, MHA, associate director of service excellence for the corporate revenue cycle at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, NC.
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Even if your registrars have expertise and comfort with collecting, there are probably missed opportunities for point-of-service (POS) collections that add up to a lot of missed revenue.
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Almost $8 billion in meaningful incentives has been paid to 82,535 eligible providers and 1,474 hospitals for Stage 1 compliance, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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A new review of electronic health records (EHRs) by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority found that mistakes made in EHRs can be farther reaching than errors using traditional paper records, according to the National Association of Healthcare Access Management (NAHAM), referring to a story in MedPage Today.
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The Joint Commission has released its 2013 Survey Activity Guide for Health Care Organizations.
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Your patient access employees probably are accustomed to fielding questions from patients about insurance coverage, but what about helping uninsured patients obtain coverage?
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During the first year of a three-year project to increase point-of-service (POS) collections at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, patient access leaders set and reached a goal of increasing pre-service collections for scheduled inpatients and outpatient surgeries to $2 million, starting from a baseline of $500,000 a year.
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Risk manager, your time has come. With all the turmoil in the healthcare industry from changes associated with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), moves toward electronic records, and an increased focus on fraud from government regulators, you might be in more demand than ever before.
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News: This case involves the death of a 36-year-old woman following the caesarean section delivery of her first child.