Elevating RCM Success By Embracing Value-Based Healthcare
“Consumer-driven” and “value-based” are the buzzwords you’ve been hearing from every corner of the healthcare community, and it makes sense. Throughout 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are leveraging the “value-based payment modifier” in the physician fee schedule and beginning to tie reimbursement to overall quality of care, rather than simply services rendered. […]
Hitting the Road with in2itive Business Solutions
Summertime is on the horizon and that means in2itive is on the move. We’re packing up our presentation booths and key members of our team and heading out to healthcare’s biggest events—looking for the best opportunities to see you and learn how we can take our work to the next level. Take a look at […]
The ICD-10 Apocalypse—Are We Surviving?
Weeks ago, people in the revenue cycle and healthcare industries were looking to October 1, 2015, like it would be the dawn of the zombie apocalypse. Even as they were training and preparing for the ICD-10 switchover, professional coders, billers and revenue cycle managers feared there would be a sudden breakdown in their system and […]
The Magic Word in Medical Dictation — “Specificity”
Early this summer we looked at the serious costs of poor dictation, so let’s now take a closer look at the shortcomings often seen in the dictation itself. The truth is, incomplete and untimely dictation has long plagued healthcare facilities—it’s nothing new—but now it’s more important than ever to keep physicians accountable for dictation habits. […]
ICD-10 Grace Period: It’s a Safety Line, Not a Crutch
Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), alongside the American Medical Association (AMA), announced a “grace period” that would ease transitional struggles following the switch to ICD-10. At the same time, they told us about an ICD-10 command center that would be working to resolve coding and claims issues as quickly as they […]
Yes, You Still Have Time to Get in Gear for ICD-10
We’ve been talking about ICD-10 since last spring. And now, the industry is less than three months from its October 1 deadline, when coding and documentation requirements will officially transition. That means healthcare business offices across the nation will have to start rolling with the new system—or face the consequences of noncompliance. But the consequences […]
Don’t Let Delayed Dictation Drown Your Medical Billing Revenue
Physicians are perpetually busy. It’s a fact I completely understand. Actually, in most cases that’s a gross understatement—on any given day, physicians are being pulled in a dozen different directions and they probably get dizzy trying to remember all the rules that apply to their work. This is the norm. When all most physicians want […]
13 Documentation Requirements to Note in ICD-10
It’s been almost a year since our last ICD-10 discussion—back when you were breathing a sigh of relief at ICD-10’s latest delay. Well, now it’s here. And surprisingly enough, CDI specialists, who act as go-betweens connecting medical staff and coders, will need to be educated about new specificity and documentation requirements, as the burden of […]
How To Be a Rockstar: Charge Entry Specialist
in2itive’s “How To Be a Rockstar” series takes a look at the individual roles that make up an amazing business office and revenue cycle management team. Learn from our own rockstar leaders what makes each role essential, how we measure each role’s success and what tasks and obstacles come with the territory. Meet Angela Schumacher: […]
Keeping the Healthcare Business Office in Line Part 2
Keep It All In Check Now you have all your ducks in a row—what are your checks and balances? How do you keep the troops in line and maintain the necessary order? Audit! You’ll hear in2itive talk about this often, because we know the true value of auditing your own work. It’s amazing what errors […]
