Healthcare IT Today May 2, 2019
The following is a guest blog post by Kurt Wolter, Enterprise Account Executive, and Philip Lewis, Senior Director, Revenue Cycle Consulting at Atos.
Revenue cycle management remains a complex and often fragmented set of critical processes in healthcare organizations. Billing systems were among the first IT systems introduced in healthcare- well over 40 years ago.
Like most technologies, these systems only deliver value when the workflows, processes and training are well orchestrated.
The typical challenges around revenue cycle include inaccurate information at registration, incomplete/inaccurate documentation, incorrect coding, lack of resources to perform the volume of work, and challenges finding qualified resources. These have been further complicated with new or replacement Electronic Health Records (EHR), lack of integration and testing...