Tag: Patient Registration

Front-End Revenue Cycle Management

The Importance of Front-End Revenue Cycle Management in Healthcare

The success of a healthcare provider’s financial performance hinges heavily on the efficiency of its front-end revenue cycle management. While the mid and back-end processes, such as coding, billing, and denials management, often receive significant attention, it’s crucial to recognize the profound impact of pre-encounter activities on overall revenue cycle efficiency. Front-end revenue cycle encompasses […]
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Key steps for successful Medical Billing Process

The medical billing process is a complex system that requires various steps to ensure accuracy and efficiency. Medical billing services work hard to make sure that medical bills are processed quickly and accurately, allowing for timely payments from insurance companies. 1. Patient Registration The medical billing process begins with patient registration, where the patient’s demographic […]
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RCM in Physician Practices: Key Steps Revealed by AMA

Physician RCM: This guide dives into key areas physician private practices can target to strengthen their revenue cycle management (RCM), as outlined by the American Medical Association (AMA) in recent News. By optimizing these eight steps, practices can ensure timely and accurate reimbursement for services provided. 1. Patient Registration: Accuracy First The foundation of a […]
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10 Steps Will Help You Prevent Denials

Healthcare policies and rules are continuously changing, and it’s important to stay on top of what all insurance carriers are doing and how their changes impact your practice’s revenue cycle. This, as well as managing your accounts receivable (A/R), is the best way to ensure your cash flow does not bottleneck and cause damage to […]
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The Leaders Say Efficiency, Not Finances, Is Top Rev Cycle Rpa/ai Benefit

More than 80% of leading health systems that are using RPA/AI say their primary reason for investing in the technology was improving financial performance, but once the technology was in use, they said efficiency was the top benefit. The reasons that leading health systems initially invest in robotic process automation (RPA) and artificial intelligence (AI) […]
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 […]

3 Key Strategies to Increase Healthcare Revenue Cycle Efficiency

  As providers engage in complex payment models and collect more from patients, they must learn to automate key functions to improve healthcare revenue efficiency. The healthcare revenue cycle has many moving parts. From patient access and registration to medical billing and coding, provider organizations of all sizes must achieve revenue cycle efficiency to ensure […]