Financial/Revenue Cycle Management
Washington, Maryland and New Mexico have leveraged funding opportunities and regulatory tools to ease the burden on providers still struggling to operate with claims payments disrupted.
Success Stories & ROI
The provider saw a 22% decrease in one type of denial and an 18% decrease in another. Those improvements have resulted in more than 30 hours per week in eliminated work for follow-up staff.
Meanwhile, the American Hospital Association is calling on Congress to do more in the face of a "staggering loss of revenue" for health systems.
Autonomous medical coding has been viewed as the province of large academic medical centers that could afford to experiment with cutting-edge technology. Today it is starting to be viewed as a necessary tool for all health systems.
Success Stories & ROI
The Eye Care Center of Northern Colorado's new EHR/PM was painful – so it switched again. The result? A dozen clicks down to one. Two-and-a-half minutes down to just 30 seconds. More data sharing between physicians and specialists. And a biggie: correct bills.
The reach of the cyberattack is a looming crisis for providers' financial stability, particularly in rural areas, and could soon impact patient care, said Ted Okon of the Community Oncology Alliance.