For over 20 years, we have focused our healthcare-consulting firm on developing a fresh approach to revenue-cycle management problems for healthcare providers.

With decades of collective personal experience as healthcare professionals, our consulting staff has helped our clients resolve clinical documentation, data flow, resource use, patient accounts and compliance issues across the entire healthcare delivery spectrum.

Through tools such as operational assessments of organizational structure, data systems, documentation procedures, and staff levels and training, we have designed and implemented successful long-term management plans for our clients. This success is not only based on the quality of the analysis, but on our ability to design solutions that truly fit your unique circumstances. Because we believe that change will only be successful when internalized at all levels, we are diligent to transfer our knowledge and understanding to your organization.

MS-DRGs Final Rule issued for October 1, 2007 implementation

New Severity Adjusted Inpatient Prospective Payment System incorporates "behavioral offsets" which means that the weights and payments have been adjusted to assume that hospitals will be "upcoding". Therefore, your clinical documentation and coding must be at its best.

CMS is requiring quality screens be reported, beginning the January 1, '08. If hospitals do not report these data, their market basket updates will be reduced by 2% for the following year.

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