SERVICES MEDIA & EVENTS CAREERS ABOUT BLOG CONTACT AUG 04 Julie McGuire, RN, MSN, CHCIO, Principal Consultant Joins the Culbert Team We are excited to announce Julie McGuire is joining the Culbert team. “As a client, Julie impressed us with her content knowledge, management skills, and leadership abilities,” said Brad Boyd, President of Culbert Healthcare Solutions. “Her operational experience combined with her ability to align IT programs to support organizational strategy... read more → AUGUST 4, 2021 CULBERT MANAGEMENT CONSULTING JUL 22 Physician’s Time – A Critical Asset (Part 2) The first part of this blog-initiated discussion of the criticality of physician’s time relative to medical systems and group practices. Consciously omitted were other impactful outcomes deriving from effective use of physician’s time in order to appropriately emphasize the direct impact to organizational revenue. Let’s delve into some of those... read more → JULY 22, 2021 DEAN RAPOZA UNCATEGORIZED JUN 22 Physician’s Time – A Critical Asset Health care is acknowledged to be a highly complex business. Running a large group practice, never mind a hospital or academic medical center, presents a formidable management challenge. Other, even relatively simple, businesses have multiple factors contributing to revenue production. Yet, in strictly business terms, the ‘means of production’ in... read more → JUNE 22, 2021 DEAN RAPOZA UNCATEGORIZED JUN 01 Time to Overhaul the Cumbersome Prior Authorization Process As both providers and payers continue to move towards risk-based contracts or alternative payment models, encouraging providers to practice in a more cost-effective model, the cumbersome prior authorization process is becoming less meaningful and more resource-intensive. The current process of acquiring prior authorization is obsolete if not archaic. While other... read more → JUNE 1, 2021 LIVIU IMBIR PRIOR AUTHORIZATION, REVENUE CYCLE NOV 09 21st Century Cures Act Requirements for Providers – Revised Compliance Dates and Why This Matters Release of the final rule for the 21st Century Cures Act by HHS’s Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) on March 9, 2020, and subsequent updates in April and May established compliance and enforcement dates for these regulations. November 2, 2020 stood as the compliance date for the Information Blocking... read more → NOVEMBER 9, 2020 TOM ANTHONY 21ST CENTURY CURES ACT NOV 03 Information Blocking Delay-We Can Help you Prepare for April 2021 Last week we were delighted to learn the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) finally extended the November 1st compliance date and timeframes for the Information Blocking contained within the ONC Cures Act. The extension allows providers the time to continue their focus on the COVID-19 response. This... read more → NOVEMBER 3, 2020 CULBERT INFORMATION BLOCKING OCT 06 Improve Revenue by Optimizing Coding Performance Overview The accuracy of your coding, and the revenue opportunities it presents, is too often an unexplored component of revenue cycle performance and an untapped organizational revenue opportunity. There are a range of issues within and related to coding in provider organizations, with high impact to revenue and profitability. For... read more → OCTOBER 6, 2020 KELLY O'BRIEN CODING, REVENUE CYCLE SEP 29 Work Claim Denials More Efficiently Using Owning Areas: Epic Resolute Hospital Billing In most cases, payer denials are investigated and resolved through the functionality of Account Workqueues. Traditionally, Account Workqueues are separated by Payer or Payer Financial Class along with an account alpha-split for larger organizations to help manage staff workloads. This type of configuration results in all denials from the same... read more → SEPTEMBER 29, 2020 PAULA YOUNG EPIC, UNCATEGORIZED JUN 01 Why Now is a Good Time to Shift Your Focus Let’s face it, most healthcare organizations today are not replete with useless infrastructure and initiatives that can easily be discarded when resources become more constrained, or when a global pandemic turns everything on its’ ear. The cyclical budget pressures, reimbursement changes, regulatory changes, and market forces over the years have... read more → JUNE 1, 2020 WAYNE THOMPSON STRATEGY & EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP MAY 12 10 Focal Points in Transitioning to the New Normal It is highly likely that in contending with the global pandemic, IT and support services leaders took whatever steps were necessary in order to support safe patient care and critical operations. While that is far from over, and those efforts continue, most organizations are determining how to resume a full... read more → MAY 12, 2020 WAYNE THOMPSON UNCATEGORIZED 1 2 3 ... 27 Recent Posts Julie McGuire, RN, MSN, CHCIO, Principal Consultant Joins the Culbert Team Physician’s Time – A Critical Asset (Part 2) Physician’s Time – A Critical Asset Time to Overhaul the Cumbersome Prior Authorization Process 21st Century Cures Act Requirements for Providers – Revised Compliance Dates and Why This Matters Recent Comments Archives August 2021 July 2021 June 2021 November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 June 2020 May 2020 April 2020 March 2020 September 2019 August 2019 July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 March 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 Categories 21st Century Cures Act Allscripts athenahealth Clinical Operations CMS Quality Payment Program-MIPS Path Coding Consumerism COVID-19 Resources EHR EHR Integration EHR Optimization Epic Epic Connect Epic Reporting Epic Security GE GE Centricity ICD-10 Information Blocking IT MACRA Management Consulting Meaningful Use Patient Access patient experience patient satisfaction Prior Authorization process improvement Revenue Cycle Strategy & Executive Leadership Telehealth Tom Dubeck-Stuff You Wish You Had Learned in Epic Certification Training Uncategorized Meta Log in Entries feed Comments feed WordPress.org Connect with Culbert call us at 781.935.1002 info@culberthealth.com 800 West Cummings Park Suite 6000 Woburn, MA 01801 2020 Culbert Healthcare Solutions