Partners in Revenue Cycle Management

Setting Your Revenue Cycle Goals

The best hedge against problems down the road is a solid plan. Even the most well-run organizations can benefit from goal setting at least annually. Giving yourself and your staff a set of goals to strive for provides you with benchmarks that help you determine if you are succeeding.

To realize your goals, you need to know how to set them. Goal setting is a process that starts with careful consideration of what you want to achieve, followed by specific steps, and some hard work.

If you ever doubted that interactions between patients and your registration and billing staff are important to reimbursement, consider how the Affordable Care Act ties reimbursement to patient satisfaction.

Here’s how: 

Rural hospitals, as defined by their geographic location, have an essential role in our nation’s healthcare system, as well as in the communities they serve. Unfortunately, trends in healthcare reimbursement and factors outside their control have put many of them into difficult financial situations.

In recent years, many of the 60 million Americans living in rural communities have watched helplessly as their only local source of healthcare disappears.