Tag: denials management

Pulse Check: Are You Effectively Preventing Denials?

By: Sam DePaz
Date: June 27, 2018
Category: Revenue Cycle
Filed under: denials, denials management, HBI, Healthcare Business Insights, Pulse Check, RC Management, RC report, reporting, Revenue cycle

“Denials Management” and “Denials Prevention” – the two buzz phrases that trade places as the top initiative for revenue cycle directors nationwide every 18 months or so. Right now, HBI is hearing that FY2019 will be a “Denials Management” year. Hopefully those denials will be effectively managed and directors will switch back to a “Denials […]

Pulse Check: Quantitative or Qualitative? Why the “or” should be an “and”—the merits behind mixed methods for revenue cycle optimization

By: Elisabeth Callahan
Date: May 16, 2018
Category: Custom Services
Filed under: Custom Services, denials management, Mixed Methods, Pulse Check, Qualitative Analysis, Quantitative Analysis, Revenue Cycle Optimization

Are you a numbers person or a words person? I’ve been asked that question multiple times in my life—in meetings with my college advisors, in job interviews, by colleagues and friends. The question has always bothered me, as I like to think I’m both. I, and the HBI Custom Services team, apply this same rationale […]

Pulse Check: Revenue Cycle Training as a Denials Strategy

By: Noelle Wysocki
Date: May 2, 2018
Category: Custom Services
Filed under: denials, denials management, denials prevention, Pulse Check, RC, RC101, Revenue cycle, Revenue Cycle 101, Revenue Cycle Training, training

Denials Prevention and Denials Management are, once again, top priorities for most healthcare organizations across the country. While tracking and trending denials and isolating root causes inhibiting account resolution are necessary strategies to ensure a successful denials management program, my team encourages our clients to also implement a preventative approach by providing staff with what […]