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Provider Scheduling Exceptions

Do you have patients show up to see the wrong provider? Today's BIG Ideas podcast describes an orthopedic practice who data mines their clinical data and then compares the results to their appointment data to catch patients scheduled to see the wrong provider.  The...

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Analysis Dashboard

Ready for a new analysis dashboard idea? Today's BIG Idea is an analysis dashboard I'm building for an orthopedic practice in the Midwest.  The revenue cycle team has a variety of Pivot Tables, dashboards, and other tools to monitor data.  The new analysis dashboard...

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Credit Balances

Does your practice have credit balances? Is the stack of credit balances to work only getting larger? Today's BIG Ideas podcast talks about credit balances and has some ideas for reducing the balances to work in the first place by putting in workflows to make the...

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Medical Transcription Productivity

Still thinking about monitoring productivity in your practice? Today's BIG Ideas podcast describes how a surgical practice in the Midwest is measuring medical transcription productivity.  Whether your practice deals with transcription or not, there are several ideas...

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Days to Bill

Interested in speeding up your revenue cycle? How long has it been since you analyzed your days to bill? Days to bill a claim is the subject of today's BIG Ideas podcast.  The story is from a pathology practice with delays in billing claims coming from the hospital. ...

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Visualizing Medical Practice Data Geographically

How long has it been since you really saw your practice data? Would it help to visualize your medical practice data geographically? Today's BIG Ideas podcast describes how a practice used Excel's 3D Maps feature to see the growth in patients at a new location. ...

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Medical Dashboards from a Data Warehouse

How do you generate medical dashboards from a data warehouse? Today's BIG Ideas podcast comes from a slide I'm using at next week's MGMA Financial and Operations Conference in Orlando.  After I finish a presentation about using business intelligence in a medical...

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Manage Medical AR

How do you manage medical AR in your practice? Could you do better? Managing medical AR is the topic of today's BIG Ideas podcast.  We will focus specifically on how many claims staff work daily and when the work gets done.  As practices continue to struggle with...

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Valuing Medical Patients

Is your practice synergistic? Do different specialties drive patients to your practice, even without formal referrals? Can you put a number on it? Today's BIG Ideas podcast comes from a group in the Northeast with two distinct specialties, a main specialty we'll call...

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Unauthorized CPT Codes

Are the procedure codes you authorize the procedure codes you actually bill? Are you sure? Today's BIG Ideas podcast describes an advanced orthopedic practice in the Midwest who developed workflows to support an automatic email that tracks procedure codes that were...

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Successful Medical Appeals

Does your medical practice have more denials than you have time to appeal? You are not alone. Today’s BIG Ideas podcast describes how a practice tracked appeals to see which appeals were most successful by payer.  Listen to get insight into how your practice might do...

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Days to Pay

Is it taking your medical practice longer to get paid? How do you know? How much longer? Today's BIG Ideas Podcast describes what a savvy practice in the Southeast is doing to track how long it takes payers to respond to a clean claim.  You will not be surprised to...

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Find Ancillary Patients

Is your practice offering a new service post-pandemic? Do you need to find ancillary patients for that service? Today's BIG Ideas podcast describes how a general surgery practice tries to find ancillary patients for their new surgical center, but the principles can...

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Allscripts Reports

Is it time to get better Allscripts® reports in your practice? Today's BIG Idea is to obtain faster, more flexible Allscripts reports and dashboards for your practice.  Rather than waiting for reports to run, listen to today's podcast for ways to speed up the...

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