For many healthcare organizations, the option of outsourcing your revenue cycle functions to a third-party partner is becoming more and more attractive. The complex tasks of dealing with payors and preventing denials can cause challenges for healthcare providers that can distract from their core goals of patient care.
The concept of smartsourcing is described as a partnership model whereby value is delivered through the leveraging of resources, knowledge, technology, and that both parties have something to gain and indeed lose within a long-term relationship. This appears to be a worthwhile and highly impactful business model disruption as it pertains to Patient Access, Revenue Cycle and Contact Center operations.
In the next edition of our Consultancy & Advisory thought-leadership series, we take a deep-dive into Quality Management Systems with our Director of Quality Assurance, Mary May. An experienced and knowledgeable expert in all aspects of quality solutions, Mary tells us about the subtle but important distinction between Quality Assurance and Quality Control, and why understanding this difference is key to a fully comprehensive and robust quality program.
More healthcare providers are making the strategic choice to centralize their patient access operations in an effort to move towards a a smoother, more streamlined experience for their patients, gaining in efficiencies and reducing waste. Regardless of the size or fragmentation of a healthcare system, this remains a viable option for strategic improvement.
Patient calls to Contact Centers aren’t neatly and evenly spaced apart, so how do you make intelligent, reasoned decisions about staffing, capacity, and efficiency, and deliver an excellent patient experience?
Healthcare systems across the world found themselves forced to rely on telehealth to support the care journey of patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. This was the case in particular during lockdown, in the days before vaccines became widely available.
How do we prepare for the unexpected? This is a question that lurks in the background during normal times but has come to the fore recently. The last number of years have brought all sorts of crises and disasters, including a global pandemic, severe weather events and an increase in cyberattacks.
Scheduling patients with the right provider at the right time at the right location has been the mantra for scheduling optimization projects for a long time now. In recent years, location has been complicated with the use of online / virtual options. Providers and patients can now be connected without needing a physical location. Now, more than ever before, we are seeing scheduling efficiency at the core of healthcare access operations.
Patient calls to Contact Centers aren’t neatly and evenly spaced apart, so how do you make intelligent, reasoned decisions about staffing, capacity, and efficiency, and deliver an excellent patient experience?
Physician burnout is one of the most challenging issues in US and global healthcare. The recent COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated this in new and worrying ways with additional pressure placed on already-stretched healthcare providers.
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