by Debbie Pantenburg | Dec 27, 2024 | All Posts, Medical Coding
Behavioral health is a crucial component of medical services, focusing on the diagnosis and treatment of mental health and substance use disorders. Unlike traditional physical health, behavioral health encompasses emotional, psychological, and social well-being....
by Debbie Pantenburg | Dec 9, 2024 | All Posts, RCM Thought Leadership
One of the top challenges faced this year by most physicians is getting properly reimbursed for their medical services, according to recent survey results by MedCentral. Listed below are five top factors from the 2024 Annual MedCentral Survey that physicians say are...
by Debbie Pantenburg | Dec 7, 2024 | All Posts, RCM Best Practices
A smooth-running revenue cycle is the financial foundation of any healthcare practice. It’s the critical process that converts patient encounters into reimbursements, ensuring your healthcare organization receives the income it deserves for delivering quality...
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,...
