The health system initiated a CMS Medicare Shared Savings Program Accountable Care Organization. During the first year of operations of the 10,000 beneficiary ACO, the physician executive director resigned.
Patient Access is under attack. Again.
At least that is what it feels like to many leaders in this space. The No Surprises Act (NSA), live as of January 1, 2022, has a noble purpose of reducing surprise billing to both commercially insured and uninsured patients. This premise would lead you to assume that the bulk of the required changes and work effort would fall on the billing office. This assumption misses the mark, considerably.
In recent years, there have been four significant points of legislation that have had a direct effect on Patient Access processes and workflows (two are specific to Maryland):
SC&H Capital, a leading investment banking and advisory firm, announced today it has entered into a joint venture with two healthcare consulting firms, Healthcare Management Partners and I3 Healthcare Consulting, to better serve the strategic and financial needs of the healthcare industry.
i3 was engaged by a Maryland-based, multi-facility health system to transform its 3 facility Chargemaster.
i3 Healthcare Consulting developed a customized driver dispatch app for client Action in Maturity, helping move the client from a pen-and-paper process to a streamlined web-based interface, saving them time and subsequently allowing them to serve 74.6% more clients per quarter.
