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Stop Letting Hospital Revenue Slip Through the Cracks

A round-up of our top 6 articles on how to capture all of your hospital revenue.  Hospitals lose 3-5% of their revenue each year due to insufficient clinical documentation and inaccurate coding, according to HFMA. This is a significant loss even in the best of times. As we enter a phase of financial limitations, capturing this missing 3-5% will become…
Malachi Charbonneau
June 23, 2022
Infusion CodingBlog

5 Benefits of an Automated, EHR-Integrated Infusion Charging Solution

Our Charge Infusion solution automates the coding of outpatient intravenous infusions of medicine or fluids. To compute a visit's charge, our system needs data inputs of time, infusion type, and medication, which can be pulled from an EHR like Epic or Cerner. This article explains how we integrate with Epic and Cerner and the benefits to nurses, informatics, and the…
Gary Bernklow
June 8, 2022
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Identify The Missing Gaps in Your Hospital’s Revenue Cycle Process: 25 Insightful Questions to Ask

Last week I had the pleasure of speaking on our webinar, The Missing Gaps in Your Revenue Cycle Process, alongside our General Manager, Malachi Charbonneau.   As a Project Manager at Medaptus, I work directly with many hospitals that each have unique charge management workflows and situations. When a new hospital is onboarded to our Charge Pro product, we do a…
Lisa Schwenker
May 4, 2022
Provider Coding ComplianceBlogNews

Five Easy Ways to Enhance Provider Coding Compliance

Today more than 200,000 certified medical coders work to support the documentation and billing needs of provider organizations large and small. Until widespread adoption of EHRs happened, these professionals relied on thick codebooks and training courses. Thankfully today’s advanced clinical systems usually have some degree of coding capability to lessen the onus on coders, but errors still happen given the…
Zach Tavano
July 7, 2021
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Improved Inpatient Continuity of Care Through Software Innovation

Over the years, many studies have shown the benefits of continuity of care in the acute care setting. At first glance, what could be easier?  I rounded on the patient yesterday I should round on the patient again today. However, many factors prevent the same hospitalist from seeing the same patient every day.  Here are the top 5 reasons for…
Dan Nottingham
July 1, 2021
Mobile charge captureBlogNews

What is Charge Capture? Part IV: Charge Capture KPIs and Actionable Insights

A comprehensive charge capture solution not only makes it easy for providers to enter charges, but also includes workflow support for business office teams. Throughout this mid-cycle charge capture process, many data transactions occur simultaneously. Each of these events represent a point of intelligence that can inform future behavior and decision making. A robust and flexible reporting system, fueled by the…
Zach Tavano
June 16, 2021
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5 Ways Charge Capture Technology Improves Hospitalist Revenue Cycle Management

The hospital medicine specialty is only about 20 years old but today has over 50,000 providers including MDs and DOs along with advanced practice providers. This relatively small group found itself at the center of America’s COVID pandemic response in 2020. Countless hospitalists worked tirelessly to save lives in overburdened units while quarantining from loved ones and confronting helplessness as…
wpengine
June 14, 2021
Mobile Charge CaptureBlogNews

What to Look for in Mobile Charge Capture

Many practicing providers have never experienced a time when they worked in medicine without mobile phone technology. Apps from clinical content to dictation suit the mobile nature of cellular devices – allowing providers to be more productive while on the move. Charge capture technology has been deployed on mobile devices for close to two decades. With a number of charge…
Zach Tavano
June 11, 2021
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What is Charge Capture? Part III: Tools for the Back Office

Complementing the initial capture of essential charge information by the physician, a complete charge capture solution provides a workstation-based environment for coders to validate charges and ensure both accuracy and completeness prior to billing.  This starts with reconciliation – have all charge opportunities been capitalized on? Charge reconciliation is relatively straightforward for office charges. If a provider sees 20 patients,…
Zach Tavano
May 26, 2021
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