365 Patient Access Advisor Records Displayed

• Training Tool: Medical necessity
  Dec 2008
• This month’s form
  Dec 2008
• This year’s patient access succes
  Dec 2008
• Manual instructions issued for revised ABN form
  Dec 2008
• Patient Access Advisor, December 2008
  Dec 2008
• This Month’s Form
  Nov 2008
• Training Tool: Scripting for the ABN
  Nov 2008
• Enhance your revenue cycle performance through effective communication
  Nov 2008
• 100% MSP compliance
  Nov 2008
• Facts on Medicare’s Recovery Audit Contractor program
  Nov 2008
• Get RAC ready
  Nov 2008
• The big picture for your Recovery Audit Contractor team
  Nov 2008
• Patient Access Advisor November 2008
  Nov 2008
• Patient Access Advisor, October 2008
  Oct 2008
• An MSP checklist
  Oct 2008
• Front end meets back end
  Oct 2008
• Build a patient-first access team
  Oct 2008
• This Month's Form
  Oct 2008
• Training Tool: Patient Access Scripting
  Oct 2008
• Last quarter is a good time for a review
  Oct 2008
• FAQs about the new ABN
  Oct 2008
• Develop a customer service script
  Sep 2008
• This Month’s Form
  Sep 2008
• Training tool: Scripting tool
  Sep 2008
• Keller named to PAA advisory board
  Sep 2008
• Tip of the month: Create a managed care plan matrix
  Sep 2008
• Solidify your ED copayment collection policy
  Sep 2008
• Copayments could be reduced under OPPS proposed rule
  Sep 2008
• Make the most of your assessment
  Sep 2008
• Facts about recovery audit contractors
  Sep 2008
• Now is the time to prepare for the RAC program
  Sep 2008
• Patient Access Advisor, September 2008
  Sep 2008
• Training tool: Registration assessment test
  Aug 2008
• PAA names Albany access manager to advisory board
  Aug 2008
• Six tips for quality control auditing
  Aug 2008
• Show, don't tell
  Aug 2008
• Assess your registration processes
  Aug 2008
• Four days and off you go
  Aug 2008
• Patient Access Advisor, August 2008
  Aug 2008
• Training tool: Medicare Secondary Payer competency test
  Jul 2008
• Form: Patient verification information
  Jul 2008
• Welcome your registrars with a letter
  Jul 2008
• Fisk named to PAA advisory board
  Jul 2008
• Technology and registration flow
  Jul 2008
• Getting to know the MSP
  Jul 2008
• ED bedside registration
  Jul 2008
• Patient Access Advisor, July 2008
  Jul 2008
• This month's training tool: Q&A on HIPAA
  Jun 2008
• This month's form: Inpatient notification process
  Jun 2008
• And the winners are...
  Jun 2008
• Know when to draw the privacy line
  Jun 2008
• Keep a close eye on appeal rights notices
  Jun 2008
• Administering the new HINNs
  Jun 2008
• Patient Access Advisor, June 2008
  Jun 2008
• Sample policy and procedure form
  May 2008
• Training tool: Completing the new ABN
  May 2008
• PAA names Friedberg to the advisory board
  May 2008
• Revenue managers: Prepare for cost estimate training with new ABNs
  May 2008
• Assess the effect of the new ABN
  May 2008
• Policy and procedure manual gets access team on right track
  May 2008
• Patient Access Advisor, May 2008
  May 2008
• Medicare Secondary Payer questionnaire: Getting the answers
  Apr 2008
• In charge at home
  Apr 2008
• No denying the wait
  Apr 2008
• And what's your credit card number?
  Apr 2008
• Patient Access Advisor, April 2008
  Apr 2008
• Medicare secondary payer basics for registration staff
  Apr 2008
• Credit card consent form
  Apr 2008
• People skills first
  Mar 2008
• Job description and performance evaluation
  Mar 2008
• Training tool: Sample error percentage and volume form
  Mar 2008
• Centralized or decentralized?
  Mar 2008
• Inquiring minds want to know
  Mar 2008
• Get your suit on
  Mar 2008
• Patient Access Advisor, March 2008
  Mar 2008
• Just pay them
  Mar 2008
• Patient Access Advisor, February 2008
  Feb 2008
• Sample Advanced Directives form
  Feb 2008
• This month's form: Registration process
  Feb 2008
• Pat them on the back
  Feb 2008
• Your questions answered: Condition Code 44 breakdown
  Feb 2008
• Transparency-with staff members and with patients-key to delivering Advanced Directive
  Feb 2008
• What's in a name?
  Feb 2008
• Kicking off A-Plus Access
  Feb 2008
• Training tool: Sample care management form
  Jan 2008
• Copayment collection form
  Jan 2008
• 2008 OPPS final rule a radical change, sources say
  Jan 2008
• My 2008 wish list
  Jan 2008
• Important Message from Medicare: One hospital's best practices
  Jan 2008
• Patient Access Advisor, January 2008
  Jan 2008
• Copay collection: Better transparency with patients and dollars saved
  Jan 2008
• In hindsight, it's time to look forward
  Jan 2008
• Verification Q&A
  Dec 2007
• GA hospital system implements photo ID system to avoid identity theft, ensure a smooth registration
  Dec 2007
• Supervisor, access services, ED job description
  Dec 2007
• Patient Access Advisor, December 2007
  Dec 2007
• Flex-hours scheduling helps keep access staffs happy
  Dec 2007
• Can we help you?
  Dec 2007
• A solid interview process can net you the right employee
  Dec 2007
• Good incentives program can motivate staff
  Dec 2007
• Registration training
  Dec 2007
• Emergency department scripting
  Nov 2007
• St. Joseph/St. Mary's "short form" registration in ED
  Nov 2007
• Patient Access Advisor, November 2007
  Nov 2007
• Waiting for more than 30 minutes? We'll send you to the movies
  Nov 2007
• Discharge appointments: Remedies for poor patient flow
  Nov 2007
• Denial management: Collaboration between front-end departments can result in significant improvement
  Nov 2007
• Answers to your toughest observation inquiries
  Nov 2007
• Sample customer service apology letter
  Nov 2007
• Develop a flexible weighted staffing model
  Oct 2007
• CMS finalizes severity DRG system, payment cut
  Oct 2007
• Sample staffing analysis form for financial counseling
  Oct 2007
• Registration QA monthly tally-by employee
  Oct 2007
• Registration QA daily checklist
  Oct 2007
• Patient Access Advisor, October 2007
  Oct 2007
• Self-service kiosks: A multipurpose solution for one organization
  Oct 2007
• CMS answers your 'Important Message' questions
  Oct 2007
• Sample script for 'Important Message from Medicare' message
  Sep 2007
• Sample postdischarge call program
  Sep 2007
• Estimated ROI calculator
  Sep 2007
• Patient Access Advisor, September 2007
  Sep 2007
• Pricing estimates: Automate your process, boost your customer service ratings
  Sep 2007
• How one facility turned to automated QA and dramatically reversed its error rates
  Sep 2007
• Bottleneck breakdown: Resolve your discharge process first
  Sep 2007
• Postdischarge calls: A customer satisfier that builds loyalty
  Sep 2007
• Patient Access Advisor, August 2007
  Aug 2007
• Medicare occupational mix adjustment: Experts question its original purpose
  Aug 2007
• Determine the severity of your problem and identify realistic solutions
  Aug 2007
• UNCHCS monitors initiative progress, reports results
  Aug 2007
• Sample patient access incentives program
  Aug 2007
• Potential point-of-service calculation tool
  Aug 2007
• Virginia hospital system tackles A/R through registration quality
  Aug 2007
• Patient Access Advisor, July 2007
  Jul 2007
• UNCHCS simplifies financial assistance, processes
  Jul 2007
• Discharge planning: Best practices can result in better customer service scores
  Jul 2007
• This month's form: Sample charity care application
  Jul 2007
• Discharge form
  Jul 2007
• Important Message from Medicare notice form
  Jul 2007
• Focused improvement worksheet
  Jul 2007
• Patient Access Advisor, June 2007
  Jun 2007
• UNCHCS improves financial assistance communications
  Jun 2007
• Sample charity care income guidelines
  Jun 2007
• Training tool: Sample financial assistance application
  Jun 2007
• Training tool: Self-pay checklist
  Jun 2007
• Patient Access Advisor, May 2007
  May 2007
• UNCHCS increases access, improves financial assistance for patients
  May 2007
• Access must play role in financing program, vendor selection
  May 2007
• Discharge planning: More patients out by noon could boost customer service
  May 2007
• Proposed new ABN form
  May 2007
• Cash collections: Develop a thorough program for your entire team
  May 2007
• Charity care: Find balance between budget, patient needs
  May 2007
• CMS steps toward severity-adjusted DRG payments
  May 2007
• Patient Access Advisor, April 2007
  Apr 2007
• Payment arrangements: Develop a policy with structure
  Apr 2007
• Worried about retail clinics taking space on your turf?
  Apr 2007
• Sample registration career ladder spreadsheet
  Apr 2007
• Training tool: Revenue cycle competency quiz
  Apr 2007
• Sample payment arrangements form
  Apr 2007
• ED overcrowding: Staff at one facility go the extra mile
  Apr 2007
• Climbing the career ladder in patient access
  Mar 2007
• Patient Access Advisor, March 2007
  Mar 2007
• Auditing patient access: How one health system benefits from technology
  Mar 2007
• How to sidestep your payer restrictions on up-front collections
  Mar 2007
• Watch out for limited benefits plans, identification plans
  Mar 2007
• New position helps Pennsylvania emergency department run more smoothly
  Mar 2007
• Patient flow coordinator job description
  Mar 2007
• Central registration auditor job description
  Mar 2007
• Training tool: Registration checklist
  Mar 2007
• UNC system turns adversity into significant process improvement initiative
  Mar 2007
• Hot button
  Feb 2007
• Patient Access Advisor, February 2007
  Feb 2007
• QA: Scoring method helps identify training needs, improve staff competency
  Feb 2007
• Nonemergency surgical prepayments: How a consistent approach lightens the load
  Feb 2007
• Point of service collection scripts
  Feb 2007
• Training tool: Audit measurement results
  Jan 2007
• Trainining tool: Post training survey
  Jan 2007
• Patient Access Advisor, January 2007
  Jan 2007
• Not-for-profit group exploring technological tool to fix
  Jan 2007
• FQHCs: Providing hospitals lessons of patient convenience
  Jan 2007
• Revised DRGs: Prepare for impact on service lines
  Jan 2007
• Staff training should be a part of providers' pricing transparency initiative
  Jan 2007
• Patient Access Advisor, December 2006
  Dec 2006
• UB-04: New form will present some challenges before May '07 deadline
  Dec 2006
• With diversion no longer an option, one hospital unites to improve care
  Dec 2006
• Seven tips to help you conquer medical identity theft
  Dec 2006
• Protect your future revenues with a calculated approach
  Dec 2006
• CORE initiative blazes path for information exchange
  Dec 2006
• Form UB-04
  Dec 2006
• Patient Access Advisor, November 2006
  Nov 2006
• Customer satisfaction in the ED: Practical solutions from one organization
  Nov 2006
• Final IPPS rule: Time to begin training staff
  Nov 2006
• Pressure to be transparent intensifies
  Nov 2006
• Improve your revenue cycle IT infrastructure
  Nov 2006
• Sample competency test for understanding insurances
  Nov 2006
• IPPS final rule in focus
  Nov 2006
• Defining role of physician advisor
  Oct 2006
• Patient Access Advisor, October 2006
  Oct 2006
• Good things don't come to hospitals that make patients wait
  Oct 2006
• Smiles, improved processes will help maintain and improve your market share
  Oct 2006
• NPI implementation: Now is the time to prepare for 2007
  Oct 2006
• Denials: Physician advisor can make a big impact
  Oct 2006
• Sample patient quality analysis and training
  Oct 2006
• Patient Access Advisor, September 2006
  Sep 2006
• Provider checklist to prevent against, report medical identity theft
  Sep 2006
• Medical ID theft: An expensive, dangerous issue for providers
  Sep 2006
• IRS offers more insight on charity care survey
  Sep 2006
• What the AHA means by 'transparency'
  Sep 2006
• 'Persuasive compassion' is an optimal collections approach
  Sep 2006
• Patient Access Advisor, August 2006
  Aug 2006
• SmartCards: Technology reduces duplicate medical records, speeds up registration
  Aug 2006
• Rethink your point-of-service collections strategy
  Aug 2006
• Hospitals near top of OCR list for HIPAA complaints
  Aug 2006
• Electronic claims attachment pilot shows promise
  Aug 2006
• Understanding Medicare insurance cards
  Aug 2006
• Patient Access Advisor, July 2006
  Jul 2006
• Tracking registration errors, boosting accuracy rates: one facility's story
  Jul 2006
• Become a 'hospital Houdini' when auditing at your facility
  Jul 2006
• Consumer-directed health plans: negotiating with patients
  Jul 2006
• Number, in millions, of Americans without health insurance
  Jun 2006
• PFS Advisor, June 2006
  Jun 2006
• Tackle late discharge times to improve throughput
  Jun 2006
• Claims clean up: Use technology to verify all insurance information
  Jun 2006
• Consumer-directed plans present new patient issues for access management
  Jun 2006
• Inpatient, outpatient, or observation?
  Jun 2006
• Sample denial database summary report
  Jun 2006
• Sample Q&A script for discharge patients
  Jun 2006
• PFS Advisor, May 2006
  May 2006
• New technology directly leads to better physician-hospital relationships
  May 2006
• Background check: Make sure that A/R vendors meet the critical requirements
  May 2006
• Three healthcare initiatives may hit your bottom line in '06
  May 2006
• Improve patient flow, enhance the patient's experience, boost revenue with facts
  May 2006
• Training tool: Observation status
  May 2006
• PFS Advisor, April 2006
  Apr 2006
• Fine-tune your charity care policy
  Apr 2006
• The price is right: Come on down, prepare your hospital for consumerism
  Apr 2006
• The financial effect of coding errors on the bottom line
  Apr 2006
• Practical tips to help you find the right A/R vendor
  Apr 2006
• Sample procedure cost worksheet
  Apr 2006
• Staffing ratios
  Mar 2006
• PFS Advisor, March 2006
  Mar 2006
• Up-front collections: Take a different approach to strengthen the bottom line
  Mar 2006
• Transparency can play a vital role in the success of P4P programs
  Mar 2006
• Underinsured and uninsured patients?
  Mar 2006
• Panel experts share perspectives on P4P programs
  Mar 2006
• How remote coding increased productivity at one hospital by 30%
  Mar 2006
• Training tool: Billing specialist knowledge assessment
  Mar 2006
• Sample emergency charity care application
  Mar 2006
• Charity care scale
  Mar 2006
• Training tool: Billing specialist knowledge assessment
  Feb 2006
• PFS Advisor, February 2006
  Feb 2006
• High-deductible health plan problems: Prepare in advance
  Feb 2006
• You're hired! Techniques to find, hire, and maintain front-end help
  Feb 2006
• Payment challenges for out-of-network providers
  Feb 2006
• 2006 OPPS final rule delivers stunning drug administration rules for providers
  Feb 2006
• PFS Advisor, Januray 2006
  Jan 2006
• No denying it: How one MA facility reduced its denial rates, bad debt
  Jan 2006
• Deal directly with disputes about bundled charges
  Jan 2006
• Best practices in measuring your denials
  Jan 2006
• Training tool: How to use the explanation of benefits (EOB) audit tool
  Jan 2006
• PFS Advisor, December 2005
  Dec 2005
• Tips to maintain a healthy client-vendor relationship
  Dec 2005
• Use denial data to improve your facility's financial performance
  Dec 2005
• Observation: Simpler coding rules should make it easier for providers
  Dec 2005
• A look through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services three-day window
  Dec 2005
• Training tool: Nine steps to conduct an audit or review
  Dec 2005
• Sample denial problem-fixing tool
  Dec 2005
• Sample policies and procedures summary
  Dec 2005
• PFS Advisor, November 2005
  Nov 2005
• Financial counselors: Tips to make your role a unique asset to your organization
  Nov 2005
• Ensure appropriate payment by thorough CDM review
  Nov 2005
• Training tool: Sample scripts for preservice collection for uninsured patients
  Nov 2005
• Sample job description: Financial counselor
  Nov 2005
• Tips to understand new rules for postacute-care transfer cases
  Nov 2005
• Sample audit checklist
  Nov 2005
• PFS Advisor, October 2005
  Oct 2005
• Improve operations by using four front-end indicators
  Oct 2005
• Gainsharing may save money, but proceed with caution
  Oct 2005
• Take five steps to terminate managed care contracts
  Oct 2005
• Keys for preservice processing of uninsured patients
  Oct 2005
• Training tool: Quiz: Medical necessity for labs
  Oct 2005
• PFS Advisor, September 2005
  Sep 2005
• Pricing strategy: Get ahead of the curve
  Sep 2005
• Get ready to process claims for treating undocumented immigrants
  Sep 2005
• Case in point: Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital
  Sep 2005
• Combating escalating bad-debt expense
  Sep 2005
• Send the right message in your financial services brochure
  Sep 2005
• Training tool: Financial counseling quiz
  Sep 2005
• Sample ED copay form
  Sep 2005
• Sample financial arrangements form
  Sep 2005
• PFS Advisor, August 2005
  Aug 2005
• Start now, cash in later with pay for performance
  Aug 2005
• Eleven tips to prevent errant inpatient admissions
  Aug 2005
• To mediate or not to mediate?
  Aug 2005
• Auditing the registration process
  Aug 2005
• Training tool: ABN and medical necessity quiz
  Aug 2005
• Sample variable deposit calculation
  Aug 2005
• Tell the plan about a denial's noncompliance
  Jul 2005
• Sample financial services incentive payment plan
  Jul 2005
• Training tool: Revenue cycle quiz
  Jul 2005
• Employee morale leads to better productivity
  Jul 2005
• PFS Advisor, July 2005
  Jul 2005
• Get paid for denials if plan fails to follow medical review procedures
  Jul 2005
• Beneficiary notices: More than an ABN
  Jul 2005
• Noncovered services and status indicator E
  Jun 2005
• Training tool: Use phone scripting to improve charity care collections
  Jun 2005
• Sample accounting entries
  Jun 2005
• Sample job description: Customer service supervisor
  Jun 2005
• PFS Advisor, June 2005
  Jun 2005
• Putting customer service first
  Jun 2005
• Make the most of physicians to prevent, appeal insurance denials
  Jun 2005
• Accounting principles for charity care
  Jun 2005
• Audit vendors to keep feds away from your facility
  Jun 2005
• PFS Advisor, May 2005
  May 2005
• WA hospital fine-tunes revenue cycle management
  May 2005
• Compassionate phone skills lead to better customer service
  May 2005
• The impact of uncompensated care and nonprofit status
  May 2005
• Manage PPO contracts to avoid scam insurers
  May 2005
• Sample charity policy guidelines and sliding scale
  May 2005
• Sample metric table
  May 2005
• Sample metric template
  May 2005
• Patient accounting quiz: Revenue cycle basics
  May 2005
• Training tool: Employee morale questionnaire
  Apr 2005
• PFS Advisor, April 2005
  Apr 2005
• Maine hospital tackles incorrect bed assignments, observation to reduce denials
  Apr 2005
• Managing: Five effective tips to reduce employee turnover
  Apr 2005
• Breaking down the books: Pricing strategy
  Apr 2005
• Online postings about contracts, compliance could be used against you
  Apr 2005
• Sample job description: Manager (self-pay/customer service)
  Apr 2005
• Sample standard data set
  Mar 2005
• Sample patient preregistration process script
  Mar 2005
• Training tool: Guidelines for fair and accurate debt collection
  Mar 2005
• PFS Advisor, March 2005
  Mar 2005
• Centralized financial clearance dept. helps DC hospital take charge of revenue
  Mar 2005
• Consumer-directed healthcare and the hospital business office
  Mar 2005
• Getting paid: Leverage contractual adjustments to secure proper payment
  Mar 2005
• Gain the upper hand by using denial management with managed care contracts
  Mar 2005
• Training tool: ABN basics
  Feb 2005
• Detailed revenue cycle metrics
  Feb 2005
• PFS Advisor, February 2005
  Feb 2005
• How one North Carolina medical center reduced denials, increased revenue
  Feb 2005
• Improve SPI to improve bottom line
  Feb 2005
• How to respond when plans ask for your chargemaster
  Feb 2005
• Medical Necessity Documentation Form
  Feb 2005
• PFS Advisor, January 2005
  Jan 2005
• Children's hospital launches internal self-pay follow-up unit to decrease debt
  Jan 2005
• Upfront collection practices: Six strategies for registration staff
  Jan 2005
• Revenue cycle teams: Get paid what you're due
  Jan 2005
• Make AOBs a part of your registration process to get what you deserve
  Jan 2005
• Training tool: Billing basics
  Jan 2005
• Sample assignment of auto med or premises med insurance benefit
  Jan 2005
• Sample deposit computation worksheet
  Jan 2005
• Average days discharge to bill: Private payer 2
  Dec 2004
• Sample reconciliation report
  Dec 2004
• PFS Advisor, December 2004
  Dec 2004
• More than just patient type
  Dec 2004
• The gold standard
  Dec 2004
• Using physicians to manage length of stay
  Dec 2004
• One take on minimizing back-end denials to increase gross revenue
  Dec 2004
• Training tool: Collection pitfalls by functional area
  Dec 2004
• PFS Advisor, November 2004
  Nov 2004
• The charity-care conundrum
  Nov 2004
• Front-end overhaul yields increased revenue
  Nov 2004
• This month's form: Zero payment denial assessment report
  Nov 2004
• Claims Tracking Report for Third-Party Payers
  Nov 2004
• Sample average length of stay (ALOS) benefit analysis
  Nov 2004