As both providers and payers continue to move towards risk-based contracts or alternative payment models, encouraging providers to practice in a more cost-effective model, the cumbersome prior authorization process is... read more →
Overview The accuracy of your coding, and the revenue opportunities it presents, is too often an unexplored component of revenue cycle performance and an untapped organizational revenue opportunity. There are... read more →
Cash posting originally was a very data entry-oriented job, but today its nothing like that at all. Most of the world only sees the advances in healthcare from a clinical... read more →
Are you Ready to Make a Difference? At Culbert, our expert consultants enable our clients to successfully navigate the changing healthcare landscape. We are currently looking for Revenue Cycle experts... read more →
The IT function has evolved over the last several decades from being a completely operational support expense, to a strategic enabler. Over the... read more →
Staff development in addition to training is often taken lightly. There is training….and there is training and developing. Unless you have actual dedicated trainers on your team, we depend on... read more →
One of the most important ways to improve A/R is the admissions/registration areas of any healthcare organization. Many facilities band-aid issues within the admission/registration areas by correcting errors in billings,... read more →
A front desk representative stares at the pick-list of Financial Status Categories (FSCs), trying desperately to match one of the myriad choices to a patient’s Aetna HMO plan. Should she... read more →
A denials committee is a necessity for effective revenue cycle management for hospital and physician groups. It is a great initiative to help organizations identify trends and issues surrounding specific... read more →
In today’s healthcare environment, it is no longer as simple as designing, building, testing and going live on a new revenue cycle system (not that that is simple in and... read more →
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