“If your CEO answers your question about how to prepare for the conversion from ICD-9 to ICD-10 coding by saying, ‘I’ve already assigned that to the IT department,’ you hereby have my permission to tell him, or her, ‘Are you kidding me?’” With this, two experts, one an RN and the other a CPA offered a live audience a firm warning: get started NOW.
More than the latest buzzword, Revenue Cycle Management is a philosophy for running a business. In today’s Medicare, Medicaid, Private Duty and non-skilled homecare services businesses, managing revenue from beginning to end means improving compliance as much as it means ensuring complete and accurate billing processes and A/R follow up procedures.
Has your agency or hospice already deployed or are they seriously considering an electronic point-of-care system? In this environment, the tools you use now to manage office PCs will not keep up. It is time to learn from the big boys. What do large corporate IT departments do to track and keep safe a fleet of mobile computers? It does not have to be expensive.
Your software vendor search is over. Your preferred servers, routers and operating systems have been selected. It was a grueling process but, now that it is over, you can relax, maybe give your IT department a half day off. According to a newly unveiled White Paper from Informatics Corporation of America, you had better not.
