Overview:
2016 has brought numerous regulatory changes to healthcare, including several updates to federal compliance guidelines. This session will outline the changes needed in revenue cycle processes not only to achieve compliance but also to optimize reimbursement. Value-based purchasing, pay for performance, the Two-Midnight Rule, and hospital-acquired conditions will be discussed to highlight provider-proven strategies for payment. The necessity for the collaboration of financial and clinical leaders will also be addressed with realistic recommendations for ensuring improvement in work flow and claims submission.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand what federal guidelines have been changed for 2016, and why compliance is important to reimbursement.
- Learn how each revision to the major payment initiatives should be (and can be) successfully implemented in your revenue cycle.
- Define “patient care management” and its importance to optimum payment in 2016.
- Know what best practice processes can be utilized to improve clinical and financial collaboration?
About the Speaker:
Linda Corley serves as Xtend Healthcare’s senior leader in the areas of Compliance and Learning and Development. She has more than twenty-five years’ experience working directly for or with hospitals in the areas of Patient Financial Services, Health Information Management and Accounting. An experienced hospital accounting manager and accomplished college professor, Ms. Corley has ten years’ experience working with financial accounting systems in hospitals and more than thirty years’ experience in training accounting professionals, patient financial services staff and coders for the medical environment.
Registration:
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