Revenue Cycle Thesis
Operational thesis designed to assist members in their strategic planning and budgeting, based on current and projected industry trends
- Health Reform and the Revenue Cycle
- Responding to Patient Payment Challenges
- Process Standardization and Consolidation
- Ensuring Revenue Integrity
- Monitoring Payer Performance
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Benchmarking and Best Practice Report Series
Continually-expanding collection of benchmarks and best practices based on Academy surveys, research, and analysis, addressing pressing issues in order to help leaders drive revenue cycle improvement
- Optimizing Financial Clearance and Point of Service Collections
- Supporting Denial Management and Medical Necessity
- Enhancing Clinical Documentation and Charge Capture
- Improving the Patient Experience Through Innovation
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Annual Member Retreat
Two-day event where revenue cycle leaders hear firsthand from better performing hospitals and develop business relationships through candid, interactive peer forums
- Effectively Governing the Revenue Cycle to Achieve Standardization
- Strategically Deploying Projects to Yield Net Revenue Gains
- Executing a Vision for Patient Accounts and Denial Resolution
- Streamlining the Patient Access Process
The Revenue Cycle Scorecard
Web-based application providing hospitals and health systems with the ability to more easily measure, manage, and stay up-to-date on their revenue cycle performance
- Set and evaluate progress based on internal goals
- Compare performance with peer benchmarks
- Generate customizable reports
Internal Audit
Internal Audit provides healthcare organizations with a resource enabling revenue cycle leaders to continually and consistently manage performance improvement across their organizations
- Test against evidence-based controls on a recurring basis
- Pinpoint and validate primary causes for losses in net revenue
- Clearly identify solutions to drive improvement
- Standardize practices across the enterprise
E-Learning
Membership in the E-Learning community provides healthcare organizations with access to a wide-ranging curriculum of foundational revenue cycle topics, as well as the ability to generate customized, interactive courses to facilitate the implementation of specific systems, process improvement initiatives, and more
- Immediately access 85+ core curriculum courses
- Create process-driven, customizable courses based on signature processes, technology, etc.
- Assess team member competencies
Member Testimonials
"Our membership with Revenue Cycle Academy has been very beneficial. My team finds great value in the Analyst Advisory's customized research. And, in addition to using Academy data to benchmark our revenue cycle performance, we regularly incorporate this data in our quarterly report-outs to our hospital executive team. We have also leveraged their best practice case studies to assist with our strategic planning and to help drive our continuous process improvement efforts."
Research Highlights
- Responding to a Changing Payer Mix and Rise in Bad Debt
- Trends in Revenue Cycle Governance: Analyzing Organizational Structures
- Setting Your Revenue Cycle Course
- Improving Throughput and Increasing Revenues — Best Practices in the Emergency Department
- Optimizing Financial Clearance Through Lean Production Methods — Best Practices in Patient Access
- Key Levers in ED Point of Service Collections
- Driving Process Improvements in the Short and Long Term — A Case Study In Applying Improvement Methodologies in Patient Access
- Securing Authorizations: A Two-Team Approach
- Strategies for Maximizing Charge Capture and Reimbursement in the ED
- Maximizing Reimbursements While Ensuring Compliance — A Case Study in Achieving Success Within a Clinical Documentation Improvement Program
- Ensuring Proper Use of Condition Code 44
- Enhancing Revenue and Service Quality — Best Practices in Clinical Documentation and Charge Capture
- Maximizing Reimbursements and Collections Through Lean Production Methods — Best Practices in Patient Financial Services
- Conducting Strategic Appeals and Analyses — A Case Study in Mitigating the Impact of Claims Denials
- Performing a First-Pass Yield Analysis to Identify Inefficiencies
- Identifying, Tracking, and Billing for Research Services
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See the latest benchmarks and best practice case studies from The Academy's research, Maximizing Reimbursements and Collections Through Lean Production Methods in Patient Financial Services
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