Articles Tagged With: authorizations
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New Appropriate Use Criteria for Radiology Will Affect Patient Access
Is this Medicare’s first step toward requiring authorizations for high-end radiology services?
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Cut A/R Days by 15% in 1 Year: Move Back-end Functions to Patient Access
By having patient access take on the back-end functions, claims can be processed more quickly, cutting accounts receivable days.
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Auth in Place, Then Different Procedure Is Done? Avoid “No Auth” Claims Denials
When a physician orders a procedure to be performed in a surgical setting at Birmingham, AL-based UAB Hospital, patient access staff start the process of obtaining required authorizations.
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There's Got To Be A Better Way
Each month, Baptist Health System handles more than 1,500 requests from physician offices to obtain authorizations for scheduled services.
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System made changes to stop ‘no authorizations’
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare made changes to prevent clinically related denials.
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Write-offs due to patient access mistakes cut in half — More than $100,000 saved
Write-offs resulting from errors made by patient access were cut in half at Saint Louis (MO) University Hospital.