Round Up: Billing Quality, Integrity, and Best Practices
HealthLeaders Media July 15, 2024
Here are four HealthLeaders articles that emphasize the importance of efficient, and compliant, billing practices.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– Providers evaluating their billing quality shows accountability.
– Increasing patient portal utilization can help with collections.
As the healthcare sector becomes more consumer focused, providers must make sure their billing practices are up to standard and patient friendly. Patients are responsible for paying more of their healthcare costs, there’s also the need to adopt different methods of payment to ensure cash flow.
How Would You Rate Your Organization’s Billing Quality
Simon C. Mathews, MD and Martin A. Makary, MD, both professors at Johns Hopkins University, proposed five metrics providers can use to measure billing quality. These metrics include whether or not the...