Developing Pricing for Your Operating Room
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Developing Pricing for Your Operating Room

The operating room (OR) is both the most expensive and profitable part of a hospital. This means that how you manage your OR pricing has a direct impact on your facility’s bottom line. Effective management and efficient operation of your OR involves a deep understanding of costs and an ability to find opportunities for growth.

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Does Your Healthcare Organization Need a Revenue Integrity Program?
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Does Your Healthcare Organization Need a Revenue Integrity Program?

Preventing revenue leakage that can result from inaccurate codes, charge capture issues, improper chargemaster set-up all are contributing factors to rejected claims and opportunities for lost revenue. Many are realizing that costly rework from returned or rejected claims can be minimized with the implementation of a revenue integrity program.

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PRF Compliance Audits: Special Tests and Provisions Testing Requirement Removed from Compliance Supplement
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PRF Compliance Audits: Special Tests and Provisions Testing Requirement Removed from Compliance Supplement

The Federal Register was updated on April 8, 2022 and “Special Tests and Provisions over out-of-network patient out-of-pocket expenses” was removed from the July 2021 Compliance Supplement. This update effectively removes this testing requirement for auditors, therefore, this procedure is no longer required in an audit of Provider Relief Funds (PRF) under Uniform Guidance.

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Provider Relief Fund Reporting Deadline for Period 2 is Quickly Approaching: What You Need to Know by Eide Bailly

To all of our healthcare community, we wanted to alert you to an impending deadline for reporting of PRF you may have received. If you received Provider Relief Fund (PRF) payment(s) exceeding $10,000 between the dates of July 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020, these funds are required to be reported in the HHS PRF reporting portal by Thursday, March 31, 2022 at 11:59 PM ET.

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Tips to Effectively Operate Your Medical Practice to Endure a Crisis
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Tips to Effectively Operate Your Medical Practice to Endure a Crisis

Simply “operating” isn’t enough if you want to buffer your practice against hardship and pave the way for growth. Ensure your practice thrives in the good times and endures through future crises by improving the efficacy of your operations. Whether your specialty is medical or dental, here are nine ways to build greater efficiencies into your practice.

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Five Solutions to Key Accounting Challenges Hospitals Face in the New Normal
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Five Solutions to Key Accounting Challenges Hospitals Face in the New Normal

The COVID-19 pandemic has created many new challenges for hospitals to manage and exacerbated existing complexities. A few examples are: Regulatory compliance, Telemedicine and telehealth, New competition, Revenue and receivables, Financial reporting, Higher deductible plans, Cancelled or deferred services, COVID-related expenses.

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Your Medical Practice is Reopened: Now What?
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Your Medical Practice is Reopened: Now What?

There is a lot to consider for the “new norm” for medical practice. Top priority should be the health and well being of your patients and staff. Look for ways you can control costs and enhance or maintain revenue. Here are a few things to consider.

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