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Optimize APC revenue with process-oriented assessments.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  11963602     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
To maintain or improve revenue streams under the Medicare outpatient prospective payment system (PPS), healthcare financial managers should use a process-oriented approach to assess the effectiveness of revenue capture in departments most affected by the PPS's use of ambulatory patient classifications, which typically include the radiology, cardiology, and emergency departments. Such an assessment should be conducted by a multidisciplinary team with senior management support. The team ideally should include the CFO, COO, and leaders from the departments to be assessed. Such an assessment process should consist of five basic phases: chargemaster/charge-capture analysis, revenue-capture process assessment, claims review, development of implementation strategies, and monitoring.
Authors:
Michael S Kovar; Elizabeth Lowery
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Healthcare financial management : journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association     Volume:  56     ISSN:  0735-0732     ISO Abbreviation:  Healthc Financ Manage     Publication Date:  2002 Apr 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2002-04-19     Completed Date:  2002-05-16     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8215859     Medline TA:  Healthc Financ Manage     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  88-91     Citation Subset:  H    
Affiliation:
KPMG, LLP, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. mkovar@kpmg.com
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Ambulatory Care / classification,  economics
Efficiency, Organizational
Financial Management, Hospital / methods*
Income
Medicaid
Medicare*
Outpatient Clinics, Hospital / economics*
Prospective Payment System*
United States

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