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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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The Joint Commission has released its 2013 Survey Activity Guide for Health Care Organizations.
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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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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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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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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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Electronic medical record (EMR) documentation creates some legal risks that didn't exist with paper charting.
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Electronic prescribing with a basic clinical decision support system could have prevented 32% of paper-based prescribing errors, according to a recent study, but electronic medical records also pose potential legal risks.
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