Tag: Denial Management

AI in RCM

Artificial Intelligence: The Benefits to Revenue Cycle Management

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a concept that has moved very quickly from the realm of science fiction into real and practical utility in a number of different industries—including healthcare. One of the most effective applications for AI-powered tools is in the field of revenue cycle management. Sophisticated AI technologies can sift through vast amounts of […]
Denial Management Services

Developing A Hospital Claim Validation Strategy To Prevent Denials

A comprehensive hospital claim validation strategy that prevents denials and improves efficiencies hinges on the right blend of retrospective and pre-bill reviews. The time to strengthen hospital compliance programs through claim validation is now. According to healthcare finance and information management leaders surveyed by HIMSS Media, clinical documentation and coding were the revenue cycle processes most vulnerable […]
Medical Coding Roght

Boost Revenue By Getting Coding Right

It’s every physician’s worst nightmare: Receive payment for services rendered, but then a payer identifies an aberrant pattern in claims data, audits the records, decides it has overpaid the practice, and recoups those funds. That money you already allocated for overhead, staff salaries, bonuses, or new medical equipment? Gone. With one post-payment audit, you now […]
Artificial Intelligence in RCM

How AI Can Create A Massive Competitive Advantage – 4 Financial Applications

Healthcare organizations have a tremendous opportunity to harness artificial intelligence in an area that may not seem flashy but is important nonetheless: revenue cycle management. Although 94 percent of companies firmly believe AI can give healthcare organizations a “massive competitive advantage,” according to Change Healthcare’s Adam Sullivan, PhD, less than 5 percent have extensively incorporated […]
Denial Management Services

Medical Necessity and Denial Management

Quality work reduces the burden of the denial management process. When my children were young, they really enjoyed the movie “The Neverending Story.” It’s about a boy who reads a magical book that tells a story of a young warrior whose task is to stop a dark force called “The Nothing” from engulfing a mystical […]
Clinical Denials

Clinical Denials: Prevention Is The Best Medicine

Clinical denials are a fact of life for hospitals. Providers must contend with a number of government audits conducted by several different organizations. On the private payer side, hospitals must comply with complex approval processes related to prior authorizations, admission status and medical necessity. At Becker’s Hospital Review’s 10th Annual Meeting in Chicago, R1 RCM hosted a […]
Allzone - PEER-TO-PEER APPEALS

A Rebeginner’s Guide to Peer-to-Peer Appeals

Suggestions for conducting peer-to-peer appeals for denials. If you are wondering why you should read this if you think you are not a rebeginner, well, it is because you actually are one. Beginnings do not disappear, they just reproduce. Novices are just starting, veterans have started over and over. We all begin as beginners and […]