by Debbie Pantenburg | Oct 16, 2024 | All Posts, Medical Coding
How to Avoid Revenue Losses from Medical Coding Errors Hospitalists and emergency room (ER) physicians continually oversee and manage a critical landscape of patient care in the hospital environment, where fast decision-making is an hourly challenge. Within this...
by Debbie Pantenburg | Sep 4, 2024 | All Posts, RCM Best Practices
At the heart of the healthcare relationship between provider and patient should be trust, empathy, and expertise. Yet, the quality of a patient’s interactions and resulting satisfaction throughout their experience plays a crucial role in achieving this. In fact,...
by Debbie Pantenburg | Sep 3, 2024 | All Posts, Claim Denials
Healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) is fundamental to practice stability and profitability, yet it can be complex and time-consuming. A highly functional and streamlined RCM is a key part of administrative overhead and critical to the practice operations. Faster...
by Debbie Pantenburg | Sep 2, 2024 | All Posts, RCM Data Analytics
Advanced data management in healthcare as the new currency for success. For revenue cycle management (RCM), this means a shift from traditional, manual processes to data-driven strategies that optimize billing, enhance operational efficiency, and ultimately, bolster...
by Debbie Pantenburg | Sep 1, 2024 | All Posts, Patient Collections
In your healthcare practice, your margins are likely at risk of thinning and you’re struggling with operational efficiency. For most, it’s a never-ending executive push and pull to increase practice revenue, decrease costs, and shore up staff for smooth operations. ...
by Debbie Pantenburg | Aug 31, 2024 | All Posts, Outsourcing RCM
Physician burnout is a growing epidemic in the healthcare industry, leading to decreased job satisfaction, impaired patient care, dissatisfaction with work/life balance, and increased rates of death. [Additional Resources] As healthcare providers face growing...
by Debbie Pantenburg | Aug 30, 2024 | All Posts, RPA Technology
The healthcare industry will continue to face increasing regulatory complexities, operational challenges, and financial pressures. Revenue cycle management (RCM) is a critical function that often bears the brunt of these challenges. Manual, error-prone processes,...
by Debbie Pantenburg | Aug 17, 2024 | All Posts, Practice Profitability, RCM Best Practices
Doctors face increasing operational costs and the pressure to deliver value-based care with higher quality metrics while dealing with high patient expectations and insurance reimbursement challenges. As a result of these business challenges, many physicians are coping...
by Debbie Pantenburg | Aug 15, 2024 | All Posts, RCM Best Practices
Let’s just say it – healthcare practices need better cash flow and faster revenue reimbursement to continue providing the highest quality of care. But that takes a streamlined, effective, well managed revenue cycle management (RCM) team, which is nearly impossible to...
by Debbie Pantenburg | Aug 14, 2024 | All Posts, Patient Collections
Most every healthcare practice has a primary mission of providing outstanding care for a patient. However, the financial health of a practice is the foundation to sustaining a patient-focused mission for the long run. It’s common for practices to focus on revenue...
