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What Next? Gaining financial momentum over the next 90 days.
The 3-Day Payment Window
This whitepaper is designed to give you a clearer understanding of the 3-Day Payment Window– helping ensure that your hospital not only remains compliant, but also receives the Medicare payments it
deserves – no more and no less.
Early Warning Signs of a Distressed Hospital
Mastering Managed Care
Mastering Managed Care to Drive the Success of Your Hospital
Drive Your Hospital’s Net Revenues
The Managed Care portion of a hospital’s net revenue represents the biggest likely opportunity to positively affect net revenue. Success is reliant on the level of professionalism brought to this task, which must be exceptional in today’s competitive environment. What is the key to mastering managed care and in turn drive your hospital’s net revenues?
Surviving the RAC
The three-year Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC) Demonstration Project ended in March 2008 and resulted in tremendous financial success for CMS, the Medicare Trust Fund and the Recovery Audit Contractors who were paid on a contingency basis for identification of improper payments. As of March 27, 2008, more than $1.03 billion in improper Medicare payments were corrected. Approximately 96 percent – a whopping $992.7 million – of the improper payments were overpayments collected from providers, while the remaining 4 percent – $37.8 million – were underpayments repaid to providers. Most overpayments – about 85 percent – were collected from inpatient hospital providers when the providers submitted claims that did not comply with Medicare’s coding or medical necessity policies. Could your hospital be at risk of having its Medicare payments taken back by the RAC?
Improving the Quality of Quality Improvement
As a clinical leader,quality is always uppermost in your mind.Is it equally compelling to your entire nursing staff? It should be.Because the quality of care in your hospital is to a large degree in your staff’s hands.As the most constant caregivers,they carry the heaviest obligation to safeguard the standards you set.But how can you instill in them this urgency? How can you keep it fresh in their minds,amid the pressures of day-to-day activity? With a solid teamwork structure and a well connected communication loop.
Evidence Based Nursing White Paper
Do you want to attract and keep outstanding nurses on staff? If so, create an environment that both challenges and rewards them… one that demands the constant pursuit of knowledge and improvement.
Home Health Care - Efficiency Drives Success
Like the communities they serve,each home health agency has unique challenges.What they share in common is an intense pressure to perform: to meet stringent regulatory requirements,achieve top tier outcomes… and return a profit.
Success is determined by the quality of the care the agency delivers and the cost of providing that care; in other words,efficiency. To improve efficiency,leaders must motivate their staff by sharing their vision and communicating their expectations.
