In the last decade, revenue cycle management has become the buzz word and inadvertently, the substitute for using critical thinking skills when it comes to the flow of revenue through the hospitals or physician practices. HSMN ensures that the integrity of the cycle is maintained and that all phases include optimization. The Revenue Cycle has… Continue Reading
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HSMN Now Emphasizes Ambulatory Payment Classification Reviews and Revenue Optimization
The Supreme Court has just upheld the new Affordable Care Act; as a result, APC payments and revenue will be more carefully scrutinized than ever. The reasons are clear: in an effort to provide incentive for EMRs, ACO payments to groups and other experiments in reimbursement, the money must be found in existing programs. Denials… Continue Reading
HSMN Specializes in Post-Epic Implementation Assessment and Repair
Enterprise-wide systems such as Epic are making invaluable contributions to a healthcare organization’s ability to have an EMR that allows a complete view of the patient and a comprehensive approach to claims management. One of the characteristics of this system and others like it, is that it is a frame whose internal work organization must… Continue Reading
HSMN Now Provides Revenue Cycle Management Assessments for Hospitals and Physician Practices
Added: (Wed Aug 08 2012) Pressbox (Press Release) – In the last decade, revenue cycle managemaent has become the buzz word and inadvertently, the substitute for using critical thinking skills when it comes to the flow of revenue through the hospitals or physician practices. HSMN ensures that the integrity of the cycle is maintained and… Continue Reading
Health Systems Management Network Promotes Hospital and Physician Practice Clinical Documentation Review and Education
Wellington, FL — (SBWIRE) — 07/26/2012 — Hospitals and physicians practices must think about a comprehensive clinical documentation review with a view on education. Reimbursement by both the government and private insurers will continue to focus on how care is integrated and how that is reflected in clinical documentation. HSMN’s service helps hospitals and physicians… Continue Reading
HSMN Announces New Physician Practice Management Program to Address the National Institute of Health ‘s Public Recommendation for Payment for “Quality Instead of Quantity”
Wellington, FL — (SBWIRE) — 02/15/2013 — HSMN recently announced a new Physician Practice Management Reimbursement Readiness Program or PPMRRP in which it would provide Physician Groups with an internal capability to demonstrate outcomes of their practice of Medicine. It is important that Medical Practices begin a transition that allows them to track outcomes. The… Continue Reading
The Epic Curious Administrator
The New Epicurean is now the Epic Curious Administrator For over 27 years Health Systems Management Network, Inc has grown its client base by being successful in helping the curious client find Revenue Opportunities. Some of those in Financial will assert that we have done everything to find new revenue. “We have bought new software… Continue Reading
Structuring Your Revenue Cycle Organization for Successful Outcomes
Health Systems Management Network, Inc. (HSMN) in its 27 years of operation has often found that both Hospitals and large Medical Practices, especially Faculty practices, have found that sometimes the installation of new Systems has changed their Revenue Outcomes. Why is the AR climbing? Why are we realizing fewer dollars from our patient encounters? Despite… Continue Reading
HSMN Announces a Program to Transition the Medical Staff from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM Coding
It has been suggested by some that the ICD-10 coding changeover will cause chaos because of the significant changes in the number of codes added to create specificity to a degree no one could have imagined. The number of diagnoses codes will increase from 14,567 to 69,833 and inpatient procedure codes will increase from 4,000… Continue Reading
ICD-10-CM Medical Billing & Coding Readiness
ICD-10-CM is effective on October 1, 2014. How would you rate the readiness of your medical staff to be able to document to the extraordinary specificity demanded by the new Coding Schema? The implementation is not just an event in time; it is an ongoing change to the culture of Clinical Documentation and coding.… Continue Reading