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Charity Care: Tools to Manage the Uninsured Population
Sandra Wolfskill, FHFMA

Softbound book + bonus CD-ROM 
ISBN 1578395615
HCPro Inc / Opus Communications
April 2005
Price: $149.00

 

With this resource, you can review and consider new strategies to initiate and implement change in the way your hospital delivers charity care. Simultaneously, you can improve operations and operating margins and increase patient satisfaction with the hospital's billing and collections operation. Your hospital doesn't have to lose millions of dollars every year providing care to the uninsured. Charity care for the uninsured patient population is a universal problem for healthcare providers.

All of the files are included on an accompanying CD-ROM so you can download, customize, and use the tools you need right away. This resource set provides:

  • risk assessments
  • implementation guides to assist in redesigning your approach to charity-related activities
  • best practices
  • case studies that highlight what your peers have done to address charity care claim processing

Charity Care: Tools for Managing the Uninsured Population provides strategies and case studies you can use to meet the challenges inherent in providing charity care. This comprehensive resource will help you assess risk and develop appropriate policies and procedures to educate your revenue cycle team. Healthcare financial management and consulting expert Sandra Wolfskill, FHFMA, provides best practices, case studies, and sample policies and forms to help you build or refine the foundation of your charity care program. It provides full coverage for these strategic topics:

  • Introduction to charity care issues
    • The human equation
    • Uncompensated care
    • Changes in the charity-care arena
    • Tax exempt status-federal level
  • Legal background
    • Hospital charges
    • Class action litigation and the uninsured
    • The government reaction to the uninsured
    • Knowing what information is public
  • Accounting principles and state programs
    • Applicable accounting principles
    • Accounting principles for charity care
    • State laws and programs
  • Strategies to assess risk and identify opportunities for improvement
    • Identifying your current charity care processes
    • The risk assessment process
  • Best practices: The ideal revenue cycle and charity processing
    • Pre-service processing: Scheduled patient workflow
    • Time of service processing: Scheduled patient workflow
    • Time of service processing: Unscheduled patient workflow
    • Post-service processing
    • Charity policies and procedures
    • Charity eligibility processing: Eligibility scales and forms
  • Implementing contemporary financial assistance policies and procedures
    • Getting started
    • Pre-service process
    • Time of service process
    • Post-service process
    • Communicating with patients and physicians
    • Outsourcing charity processing
  • Case studies
    • Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital
    • "Hospital" - regional medical center
    • West Virginia University Hospitals and University Health Associates

Chief financial officers, PFS directors, revenue cycle directors, billing and collection managers, and anyone involved in making decisions about your organization's charity care position will find Charity Care: Tools for Managing the Uninsured Population an good investment.

Sandra J. Wolfskill, FHFMA, is President of Wolfskill & Associates, Inc. a firm dedicated to quality health care receivables consulting. Prior to founding the firm in 1996, Sandra spent 15 years in health care financial management and consulting, including holding positions of Vice President, Senior Consultant, Director of Patient Financial Services, Director of Information Systems, and Chief Financial Officer. Sandra has presented programs to national healthcare financial management conferences, as well as conducting seminars and training sessions throughout the United States.

Softbound book + bonus CD-ROM 
ISBN 1578395615
HCPro Inc / Opus Communications
April 2005
Price: $149.00

 

With this resource, you can review and consider new strategies to initiate and implement change in the way your hospital delivers charity care. Simultaneously, you can improve operations and operating margins and increase patient satisfaction with the hospital's billing and collections operation. Your hospital doesn't have to lose millions of dollars every year providing care to the uninsured. Charity care for the uninsured patient population is a universal problem for healthcare providers.

With more than 17 years of experience, HCPro, Inc. is a leading provider of integrated information, education, training, and consulting products and services in the vital areas of healthcare regulation and compliance. The company's mission is to meet the specialized informational, advisory, and educational needs of the healthcare industry. As an acknowledged industry authority in healthcare regulation and compliance, HCPro focuses on providing its clients assistance and expertise in the areas of accreditation, medical staff affairs, credentialing, privileging, medical record management, regulatory compliance, nursing, quality/patient safety, infection control, and workplace safety.

(information from the publisher)

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