Revenue Cycle Management Toolkit: A Comprehensive Guide to Managing Cash Flow

Softbound + bonus CD-ROM
Size: 11" x 8.5 book" + CD-ROM
ISBN 1601462107
978-1601462107
HCPro
July 2008
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Maintain a complete, thorough revenue cycle process. The scope of a healthcare organization’s revenue cycle is broad, encompassing issues on the front end of operations, in the coding and chargemaster departments, and in back-end/ reimbursement duties. New elements are constantly being introduced, with concepts such as MS-DRGs, Recovery Audit Contractors, and the Present on Admission Indicator, which all require operational changes.

Revenue Cycle Management Toolkit: A Comprehensive Guide to Managing Cash Flow caters to the complexities and demands that come with managing every facet of your organization’s revenue cycle, from the moment a patient walks through the door to reconciling payment for services rendered.

This resource offers customizable and printable forms, checklists, tips, and advice for all aspects of the revenue cycle including:

Registration and scheduling
Upfront collections
Chargemaster maintenance
Outpatient coding, including major OPPS changes, drug administration and incident-to
Inpatient coding, including RACs
Billing and collections
Emergency department

This toolkit offers value-added management and training tools such as quizzes to reinforce learning and assess competency, and sample case studies to illustrate practical demonstrations of the material provided in the book. With a foreword written by William Malm, ND, RN, Revenue Cycle Management Toolkit provides sensible guidance and tools you can use immediately to start strengthening all of the functions in your revenue cycle, from patient access, all the way through to managed care contracting. This book will help you:

Reference specific details relevant to each step in the cycle with easy-to-navigate tabs and chapters
Identify specific successful methods used by your peers, that you can implement in your own organization, including detailed case studies and applicable tools
Customize important documents such as audit plans and model letters, with templates provided on the accompanying CD-ROM
Discover time-sensitive analysis of important changes and programs in 2008, including MSDRGs, Recovery Audit Contractors, and the Present on Admission Indicator

Take a look at the table of contents, which are chock full of ways to upgrade your revenue cycle process:

UNCHS Case Studies
Patient Access
Chargemaster and Outpatient Coding
Inpatient Coding
Patient Financial Services
Spotlight on the Emergency Department

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