Accelerate Cash Flow and Reduce AR Days

Healthcare providers know that cash flow is essential to a healthy medical practice and the organization’s financial well-being. Unfortunately, with so much pressure on providers to do more with less, most do not have the staff or resources to effectively manage and maximize their accounts receivable. In an ever-changing healthcare environment, providers are faced with the reality of shrinking margins due to:

Bret Whatley, Regional VP Sales, Southeast represented Meduit at the Arkansas HFMA Spring Conference April 10-12 in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Bret had an opportunity to chat with a number of hospital executives about how Meduit can support their revenue cycle and accounts receivable.

A Comprehensive Patient Payment Solution that Works for Providers and Patients

The Kentucky Chapter of HFMA held its annual conference February 27-28 in Louisville.

Charlotte, NC – Meduit, a national leader in healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM), announced today that Janice Ridling has joined the Meduit team as Revenue Cycle Sales and Operations Executive Advisor. Her addition to the team will support accelerating the company’s expansion strategy to improve cash flow for more hospitals, health systems and physician practices throughout the country.

According to a recent Black Book survey of over 4,640 individuals from 522 hospitals and healthcare delivery networks, approximately 26 percent of US hospitals do not have an effective healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) solution in place. This figure is down from 35 percent of hospitals reporting no RCM strategy in 2012. Without a viable RCM solution in place, hospitals are very likely leaving significant revenues on the table.

At Meduit, we are driven by compassion, and there’s no better time than Thanksgiving to lend a hand and share some holiday joy. On Friday, November 16, our team members, in partnership with Publix Supermarkets, delivered 100 Thanksgiving meals to the Charlotte Rescue Mission for their yearly Thanksgiving Food Box Drive. Together we were able to bring smiles and Thanksgiving dinner to families who otherwise may not have had resources available to celebrate the day.

Revenue cycle processes have had to continuously evolve over the years to keep pace with the rapid changes occurring in the healthcare industry. As a result, RCM vendor partners are now utilizing technology that hospitals do not have access to on their own. To be successful in this new climate of increasingly complex payment models, providers need to focus more on how to streamline their processes to optimize reimbursement rather than on insurance denial management.

How well are your revenue cycle processes working? A good indicator is the age of your accounts from final bill or claim date. Generally, a clean claim gets paid in 30 days or less. If a claim is older than 60 days there is typically something wrong with it, and once you pass 180 days, collectability on that account dips to 5%.

By now you’ve heard that engaging patients in their care is essential to positive outcomes - and therefore reimbursement - so many times you’ve lost count. You’ve read the guides on how to develop better engagement campaigns (psst…if you haven’t, we have one for you here), attended sessions on the importance of activation at association events, maybe you even created focus groups within your own facility to determine how you can empower patients to take control of their care. But all the training and campaigns come down to one thing: proper communication.