There is a lot of information floating around about Early Out Self-Pay, an emerging healthcare service necessity, but as with many things, not all of it is based in fact.
Do you have a hard time finding metrics that relate to your facility? Are you frustrated because the healthcare industry is overrun by “best practice” indicators, and plagued by the notion that every revenue cycle fits into a cookie cutter best practice model?
After many years in the industry providing services across numerous revenue cycles and reviewing client results, it became very clear to me that the standard “best practices” performance indicators touted in revenue cycle publications are not likely the best gauge of AR health for your individual facility.
Read MoreDo you spend sleepless nights thinking about how to maximize throughput within your revenue cycle functions? Throughputs can include increasing cash, decreasing days in revenue outstanding, improving customer satisfaction or maintaining compliance standards and the available strategies are often complicated by external factors such as: consumerism, newly insured patients, increases in patient liability, sophisticated payer edits, denials for payment and staff turnover.
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