Tag: Pulse Check

Pulse Check: Extending Coding Education Beyond the Coding Department

By: Noelle Wysocki
Date: February 13, 2019
Category: Custom Services
Filed under: Coding, denials, DRG, education, HBI, Non-coders, Pulse Check, RC Education, Revenue cycle, training

The health of an organization’s revenue cycle depends not only on the accurate performance of employees in their respective roles, but also the understanding of how their roles impact others up and downstream, and therefore the quality and speed with which a claim gets processed. One area that has incredible impact on a claim’s processing […]

Pulse Check: Are You Connected to Your Organization’s Mission, Vision and Values?

By: Elisabeth Callahan
Date: February 6, 2019
Category: Custom Services
Filed under: culture, employee engagement, Healthcare Mission, leadership, Mission/Vision/Values, MVV, Pulse Check

Happy Anniversary to the Pulse Check Blog! This week marks the 1-year anniversary of the blog series. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading the posts as much as I and my colleagues Noelle, Sam, and Andrew have enjoyed blogging. Hospitals and Medical Groups are facing complex challenges in an ever-evolving healthcare industry. Creating a network community […]

Pulse Check: Ensuring Eligibility

By: Andrew Minten JD
Date: January 30, 2019
Category: Custom Services
Filed under: Insurance Eligibility, Insurance Verification, Medicaid Work Requirement, Medicare Secondary Payer, Pulse Check, registration

As you well know, you aren’t getting reimbursed if you bill the wrong payer, and front-end staff have even more pitfalls to avoid in ensuring they have the correct insurance information. Insurance verifiers, schedulers, and registrars need to be fully aware of why gathering insurance information from patients is important. Especially so staff do not […]

Pulse Check: Educating Patients on ED Point-of-Service Collections

By: Samuel DePaz
Date: January 23, 2019
Category: Custom Services
Filed under: Claim Resolution, ED, ED Collections, Point of Service Collections, Pulse Check, Revenue cycle, Revenue Cycle Management, training

Recently, the question of putting up signage in the ED to educate patients on point-of-service collections surfaced. There is a lot of debate over this topic and whether it violates EMTALA or should even be done in the first place. For the purposes of this blog, I will review a couple strategies when considering putting […]

Pulse Check: Revenue Cycle Resolutions

By: Noelle Wysocki
Date: January 16, 2019
Category: Custom Services
Filed under: customer service, denials, E-Learning, employee satisfaction, HBI, Learning, new year, Patient Satisfaction, Pulse Check, RCA, relationships, Rev Cycle, Revenue cycle

It’s a new year! While your organization’s initiatives may not have changed when the ball dropped, you can be sure that your employees are feeling a burst of motivation as they start 2019, an eagerness to tackle the tough to-dos and an energy to learn, grow, and achieve. Perhaps you’re feeling it too! Let’s capitalize […]

Pulse Check: Try These Solutions to Avoid Authorization Denials

By: Elisabeth Callahan
Date: January 9, 2019
Category: Revenue Cycle
Filed under: Admission Support, Auth Denials, Authorization, Authorization Denials, Pulse Check, upstream errors, UR, Utilization Review

Authorization-related denials continue to be among the top denials for organizations. Authorization denials add to A/R days, require work to overturn, and can result in lost revenue. Here’s a list of common pitfalls and possible solutions. We’d love to hear more about your own authorization-related pitfalls and/or solutions your organization is pursing. Reach out to […]

Pulse Check: Price Transparency

By: Andrew Minten JD
Date: January 2, 2019
Category: Custom Services
Filed under: CMS, financial assistance, Patient Experience, Payers, Price Transparency, Pulse Check

Now that the CMS has stated that prices for all items and procedures must be posted online, it is important to ensure patients understand what these prices mean to them. We’ve seen healthcare organizations be effective creating a financial assistance committee that can partner with the community to determine the most efficient way to communicate […]

Pulse Check: Reduce Turnover Through a Compensation Review

By: Samuel DePaz
Date: December 26, 2018
Category: Custom Services
Filed under: Claim Resolution, Compensation Review, key performance indicator, KPI, Pulse Check, Reduce Turnover, Retain Employees, Revenue cycle, Revenue Cycle Management, training

Recently, I have been hearing the same question from revenue cycle leaders across the country, “How do we reduce staff turnover?” Staff turnover will continue to be an issue until leaders invest in understanding the underlying issues. What is below the surface that is causing my employees to leave? Revenue cycle leaders need to understand […]

Pulse Check: HBI’s Revenue Cycle Prescription

By: Noelle Wysocki
Date: December 19, 2018
Category: Custom Services
Filed under: 835, assessment, denials, DRG, elearning, HBI, health, Healthcare, Pulse Check, RC, rc health, Research, Rev Cycle, rev cycle training, Revenue cycle, revenue cycle health, training

When a patient presents with a problem to a physician, the physician takes necessary steps to diagnose the issue, treat it, and help the patient sustain a new normal. Perhaps we take preventative measures, like analyzing bloodwork, to uncover red flags that should be mitigated to ensure long-term health. A healthcare organization’s troublesome revenue cycle […]