RCM Consultants - Medical Billing Marketing, RCM Automation, Data, and AI.

Why AR days should NOT be the gold standard in measuring accounts receivable and medical billing performance.

How do you evaluate and select a medical billing company to perform you billing? Reference are the number one method and we'll discuss whether that is a good criterion.

Defining and getting through the marketing BS on RCM and medical billing terms and acronyms.

What do medical billing, financial data, analytics, and visualization tools have to do with dynamite? Listen in to hear about Xifin Revenue Cycle Management "business intelligence" solution.

Why do so many ambulatory surgery centers not have EMR? Will it change? We look at a hypothesis on why, what the impact is, as what you can do with data mining until it is implemented.

How do you figure out what payers are unwilling to pay? What CPTs are going to get denied in medical billing? What's the right question and what's the right way to analyze to identify and prevent problems with insurance companies?

What can you do when you're alone in your home office?

How can people who don't understand each other communicate? Billers don't know software, database structures, etc. and IT people / analysts don't know billing. What's an organization to do when you need answers?

Does athenahealth have a good medical billing system or is it just an EMR/EHR and is their reporting good? What are the major pros and cons?

Is Epic Software really epic when it comes to reporting? Find out in this podcast discussing the reporting capabilities of one of the largest hospital and EMR software companies on the planet.

What are we focused on in our industry? Seems like our target is off the mark in medical billing and we're looking at metrics and KPIs that are not in alignment with our financial goals.

I'm giving you one of our most secret Secrets for RCM Denials Metrics. The most important KPI there is for your medical billing appeals process.

What does Guy Kawasaki have to do with revenue cycle management? Listen to find out.

Often when you do revenue cycle management (RCM) analysis, you and up not getting the answer you were going for. And suddenly you need to look at why, are there different questions, and how does this impact on my data?

Let's be honest...Data prep sucks. Wouldn't you rather just do denials analysis? Hear what happens when analysts focus on analysis instead of what is even more important...

Why is it that so many consultants, billing companies, and software platforms in RCM / revenue cycle management / medical billing give you such garbage advice? They after even actual performance metrics, just best practices at best.

How many times have you heard the buzzword analytics in healthcare and revenue cycle management? Seems like at what conference and in tons of articles we're being bombarded. But is it really analytics being offered?

Now that we extracted reason codes from the text field Notes in the medical billing system (aka EMR), can we figure out the top problems to solve?

When it's ugly just trying to get the information you want. How do you solve medical billing problems when you can't get good data on what is being rejected ir denied and why?

Diving into denials reporting for medical billing for one of our clients takes me to a clearinghouse rejection report and the result is surprising.

What's the best way to tackle the entire healthcare reimbursement system problems? I'm going to find out.