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Championship Revenue Cycle: Passion & Purpose Back End Revenue Cycle Current Issues Thursday, January 18 th , 2018 Gillette Stadium Clubhouse Tim Bavosi, VP Consulting at RevSpring Inc. Championship Revenue Cycle: Passion &


  1. Championship Revenue Cycle: Passion & Purpose Back End – Revenue Cycle Current Issues Thursday, January 18 th , 2018 Gillette Stadium Clubhouse Tim Bavosi, VP Consulting at RevSpring Inc. Championship Revenue Cycle: Passion & Purpose Introductions Panelists: – Angela L. Confoey, Director of Revenue Cycle and Patient Financial Services at Mount Auburn Hospital – Kevin Dwyer, Director Patient Accounts at Southcoast Health – Maria Rego, Director of Revenue Cycle & Registration at SMG- Hawthorn Medical Group 1

  2. Championship Revenue Cycle: Passion & Purpose Topics • Best practices for claim follow up and prioritization • Denials and how they impact self-pay • Data analytics and trending Championship Revenue Cycle: Denials Passion & Purpose What’s at stake? • Delayed and/or lost payments. • Process efficiency, denials require manual follow-up i.e. root cause analysis, training, system enhancements, rebills, costly appeals, etc. • Compliance and regulatory requirements. 2

  3. Championship Revenue Cycle: Denials Passion & Purpose What else is at stake? • Public perception can be negatively impacted by Denials?? – A denial may be interpreted as incompetence, perceived as unorganized?? Championship Revenue Cycle: Denied Claims Passion & Purpose and Patient Statements • Insurance denials can incorrectly trigger high-balances to drop to the patient? • Eligibility Denials have a higher risk of turning into erroneous patient balances and patient statements. 3

  4. Championship Revenue Cycle: What does an Eligibility Passion & Purpose Denial mean? • Patient does not have insurance coverage. • Patient’s name was incorrectly entered into the system. • Patient has not updated his or her demographic information's and insurance information. • What else? Championship Revenue Cycle: Passion & Purpose Patient’s written and verbal “touch points”. Appointment Registration Service Performed Date of Service Claim Remittance “True self-pay” vs. Erroneous Pt Statement Balances A Patient Statement should not impact a patients perception of the hospital. 4

  5. Championship Revenue Cycle: How can we protect our Passion & Purpose patients? • Identify existing patient balances that are at risk for invalid self-pay balances. • Develop and implement process and technology. • Automate scrubbing, daily work listing to target invalid patient balances. Championship Revenue Cycle: How can we protect our Passion & Purpose patients? • How does your facility handle “Eligibility Denials”? • What is your follow-up process for eligibility denials? 5

  6. Championship Revenue Cycle: Passion & Purpose Revenue Cycle Work-Lists • Where are they, what is their goal, how many are currently used? • How are they prioritized and why? • Are there opportunities to consolidate work-lists, reduce redundancy and empower the optimal staff to work with what they know best. Championship Revenue Cycle: Passion & Purpose Accountability • Centralized vs. Decentralized • Who is responsible and who is the backup? • Do they know which work lists/workqueues they are responsible for and how to work the edits? • Have they been provided the proper access/training to work edits appropriately? 6

  7. Championship Revenue Cycle: Passion & Purpose Understand Your Edits Where do they fall in the revenue cycle? – Are they pre-billing edits, edits from your claim scrubber/clearinghouse, or rejections back from the payers? – Do your edits include stop bills, and are they holding accounts from being billed until issues are resolved? – How can you ensure that they are worked before timely filing limits? Championship Revenue Cycle: Passion & Purpose Internal vs. External Edits • Internal Edits – Have you built internal edits to improve charge capture? Are these edits built correctly, or are they holding claims unnecessarily? • External Edits – Can you build these further upstream in your system? If you have decided an edit is inappropriate in your system, have you also turned it off externally? 7

  8. Championship Revenue Cycle: A Few Other Things to Passion & Purpose Consider • Types of Edits: Correct Coding (CCI) Edits, Registration Edits, Medical Necessity, etc. • Are edits maintained by a vendor, and are they up to date? • Where are they firing? Upfront warnings, HIM/3M, back-end? Is there duplication, or opportunities to consolidate? Championship Revenue Cycle: Passion & Purpose A “New” look at Denials • What is your facilities highest and most valuable denial today? • Eligibility • Provider Liability vs. Patient • Root Cause Analysis • Appeals • Propensity to pay 8

  9. Championship Revenue Cycle: Passion & Purpose Data, Data and more Data • Data Integration, Data Warehouse • Database Analytics • What is the value of “Big Data” • Bridging gaps between IT and operations Championship Revenue Cycle: Passion & Purpose Data Gathering • Dashboards & Standard Reports • Custom reports • Drilling down into data • Graphics 9

  10. Championship Revenue Cycle: Passion & Purpose Analytical Structure • How does your process work? • Dedicated Team • Dedicated Individual within Team • Leadership Involvement • Levels of Training & Experience needed • System Tools, Excel, Pivot Tables, etc. Championship Revenue Cycle: Passion & Purpose Using Data • Trend Analysis • Comparative Studies • Internal, Historical Data • External Metrics • Reactive vs. Proactive • Need to be dynamic, drive change 10

  11. Championship Revenue Cycle: Passion & Purpose Applications • A/R Days, Aging • Cash, cash sources • Denials, Write-offs, Bad Debt • Audits, RAC • Productivity • Budget • Demographic analysis Championship Revenue Cycle: Passion & Purpose Summary • Take advantage of all data available • Decide how to structure your analytic team • Compare, trend, analyze & apply 11

  12. Championship Revenue Cycle: Passion & Purpose Questions? Thank you! 12

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