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What is the average rate of denials on a percentage basis? What is the top quartile? How good can you actually get? What are the key things to implement a successful denials management program?

A few more best practices about healthcare financial dashboards...including when you should just scrap it.

Follow up to HBMA podcast about lack of data and analytics at the conference. I discuss why it isn't there with recent revelations about the revenue cycle management industry.

How can providers benchmark financial performance without exposing sensitive competitive information? We tackle this problem and offer a solution.

The solution is nigh...or is it?

What kind of target is achievable or even realistic in avoiding medical billing denials? What is "normal" and what is exceptional? And can it be replicated? Listen to find out what we just ran into.

Denials reporting is among many in healthcare finance and revenue cycle management where we are forced to look at really old data instead of current. Why? Does it really have to be this way? We have a different view than most and offer a potential solution to help. Listen to find out.

Looking at the agenda for the upcoming HBMA Conference I was floored to see there is nothing about analytics or data going on there. What is happening?

How long do you need to wait in order to get financial results? Should you have to wait a day? A week? A month? A year? What about other information? What about RCM performance results? Listen to hear our take on reporting.

What is denial recovery rate, how do you calculate it, and what is it good for? We'll discuss whether this is a good RCM KPI (spoiler: it isn't) and why.

What is a healthcare provider or a medical billing company to do when you're short staffed and are having a hard time hiring enough employees? The consequences can be dire. Listen to hear what this means for your organization, what your options are, and what you might consider doing.

What is AR recovery and why should everyone be doing it? We'll explain what it is and why it's the best thing since sliced bread.

What are the Do's and Don't's for creating a healthcare financial dashboard? Best practices and common mistakes are discussed in this podcast.

If you are interested in our denials management application for beta testing, it comes with the ETL module that extracts, cleans up, and joins data from your system(s). Please contact us if you are interested.

What's MECE and how can it help your organization when it comes to RCM Analytics?

Money I save I often put into real estate to diversify and this is the second part of the story about how I used data and analytics to make money in my personal life.

What's the difference between a dashboard and a set of reports? Most people find them indistinguishable, and yet that destroys the value of dashboards. Listen to our take on this.

We are offering a limited number of organizations free usage of our new denials management software. Listen to find out some of the features of what it does, as well as benefits, and how to apply and see if you qualify.

This isn't even about healthcare. It's about a personal story of looking at how I approach things analytically and modifying and improving that approach. And then making a bunch of money.

What does HIMSS have in store for us analytics nuts?

What comes before denials management 101...denials management 100. In order to do basic denials management in any way, whether it is analytics or basic medical billing denials workflow, you need data and we'll discuss some ways to get that if you're having trouble.

What is the first thing to do in implementing a denials management process? What gives the greatest bang for the buck in time to implement and cost? Listen to find out what should be step 1.

Who has good practice management KPI's? While we usually slam organizations for poor, non-existent, or fictitious metrics, we'll share with you an organization that has come up with a good list...and their list.

Is everything bad in RCM metrics? Are we just hypercritical? There have to be good medical billing KPI's right? Listen to find out.

How many hours of a high level analytical resource does it take to do charge reconciliation every month? We've gotten a quantification from a client where we deployed our Charge Recon application. Listed to find out.