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11 Nov: Driving Revenue Cycle Success for TeamHealth with Ingenious ...
Almost every hospital, health system, and medical group struggles to maximize revenue cycle management and overall financial perfo ...
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24 Oct: The New Charge Capture Conundrum: EMR-Embedded Tools Lead to...
With healthcare costs projected to rise another 8% year-over-year in 2025, and research showing that providers delivered $745 bill ...
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22 Jul: A Solution for Lagging Physician Productivity: Analytics, Co...
New research commissioned by Ingenious Med finds that 75% of healthcare leaders do not have adequate insight into physician produc ...
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03 Jun: The Untapped Power of Revenue Cycle Management Tools: Care T...
New Ingenious Med-funded research shows that 86% of hospitals and health systems still rely, at least in part, on their electronic ...
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29 Apr: Too many EHRs Hurting Your Revenue Cycle? Time To Look Elsew...
Ingenious Med funded research that reveals healthcare leaders believe AI holds powerful potential to optimize revenue cycles.
82% ...
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11 Mar: Ransomware in the Revenue Cycle: Protecting Your Ability to ...
Cyberattacks can block hospitals and health systems from filing claims or collecting revenue.
Here are three ways to safeguard a ...
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05 Feb: 7 Revenue Cycle Management Trends for 2024
Hospital revenue cycles, and the professionals who manage them, are under immense pressure heading into 2024. Early last year, Fit ...
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15 Jan: The Urgent AI Opportunity in Revenue Cycle Management: Creat...
Today’s revenue cycles are at a crossroads: hospital and health system leaders are not particularly satisfied with their revenue ...
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29 Nov: The RCM Scorecard: How Well Is Your Healthcare Organization ...
Top 10 Revenue Cycle Management metrics hospitals and physician groups should master
Amid rising costs of care delivery, work ...
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27 Nov: The Ingenious Med Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) Scorecard
Amid rising costs of care delivery, workforce shortages, and reimbursement challenges, it’s more important than ever for hospita ...
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06 Nov: HITRUST Certification: What it Means to Our Customers and to...
Ingenious Med is certified by the HITRUST Alliance for data protection and risk management to safeguard sensitive health informati ...
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25 Sep: RCM best practices and the potential for AI assistance
This article was featured in Physician's Practice
Healthcare providers have long struggled to get paid for ...
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31 Aug: MIPS 2024: Inpatient Practices Must Advocate for Equitable S...
MIPS Challenges for Inpatient Clinicians in 2024
Quality will continue to be the most influential category in the MIPS scoring pr ...
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31 Jul: Unleashing the Power of MIPS: Benefits, Consequences, and Fi...
In today's rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) has emerged as a transformative ...
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04 May: Preventing Rising Claims Denials
3 Ways a Point-of-Care Charge Capture Solution Can Help Reduce Rising Claims Denials
Despite advances in technology and automatio ...
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04 Apr: Five Ways Independent Physician Practices Can Generate More ...
As a growing number of physicians become employed in practices owned by health systems or investors, these independent physician o ...
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06 Mar: Continuous Improvement of Revenue Capture Integrity: Ingenio...
Ingenious Med is Approved and Available at Both Cerner CODE and Epic App Orchard
Recognizing the industry need for secure system ...
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20 Jan: Preventing Cyber Attacks: 4 Steps Your Vendor (and Your Heal...
How to go beyond check-the-boxes approaches to strengthen vendor security
Cybersecurity has become a top concern for healthcare ...
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05 Dec: Out of the Frying Pan: From Pandemic to Inflation
The financial challenges of running a health system, hospital or healthcare practice never seem to abate. Instead of getting a bre ...
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31 Oct: CFO’s Guide to a Restful Night’s Sleep
Need more restful sleep? Here are five steps to better financial health for healthcare CFOs and other financial leaders. ...
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30 Aug: From Minimizing Denials to Minimizing Risk: How to Move RCM ...
RCM Risk Management: 3 Ways Point of Care Tools Can Help Your Revenue Cycle Evolve
Most healthcare revenue today is tied in some ...
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08 Jul: 3 Keys to Building a Strong Home-Based Care Program
How point of care tools can help stop the revolving door
Can an investment in post-acute care keep patients safe at home while ...
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06 Jun: Three Ways to Address Coding and Billing Staff Challenges
Healthcare organizations have found it increasingly challenging to hire and retain qualified medical coders and billers in the pas ...
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03 May: The Cure for the Many Disadvantages of Paper Consent Forms
And What to Look for in an eConsent Platform
While much of healthcare has been digitized, surgical and other patient consent fo ...
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29 Mar: Strategies and Tools to Revitalize Value Based Care in Your ...
Value-based care (VBC) took a backseat during COVID but is poised to be re-energized, according to presenters at our recent webina ...
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04 Feb: Making Technology More Accessible for All at Ingenious Med
The Americans with Disability Act (ADA) was passed in 1990 to ensure that those with visual, ambulatory, or other disabilities wer ...
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07 Jan: Whether you Insource or Outsource, How to Collect More with ...
Which is better, outsourcing or insourcing your billing? As is often the case, the answer is, ‘It depends on your practice.’ W ...
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29 Oct: 6 Tips for Hospitalists and Healthcare Organizations to Join...
In the past decade, hospitalist subsidies more than doubled and their compensation increased about 40%. Those were just two of the ...
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21 Oct: MIPS Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Exceptions for...
The good, the bad, and the ugly — and how to avoid penalties
As COVID-19 continues to disrupt normal operations for medical pra ...
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14 Jul: 5 Steps to Greater Financial Efficiency: Customers Share Wha...
Ingenious Med sponsored a webinar with RevCycleIntelligence in late May in which two of our clients shared five ways they optimize ...
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07 Jul: How to take on more risk without risking your practice (Valu...
By Steve Liu, MD
The arrival of COVID in the early part of 2020 caused the volume of non-infected patients to plummet and force ...
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27 Apr: Five Ways Independent Physicians Can Capture and Keep More R...
The healthcare industry has often predicted that independent physicians will become an endangered species, and there’s no questi ...
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15 Apr: Ingenious Med: Supporting a Comprehensive Productivity Optim...
TeamHealth, one of the nation’s leading integrated physician practices with almost 16,000 clinicians in various specialties that ...
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15 Feb: Six Strategies for Preventing Administrative Burnout
Even before the pandemic struck in early 2020, healthcare coding and billing staff were experiencing burnout due to staffing short ...
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04 Jan: 2020 MIPS Relief for Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstance...
By Stephen Besch, Director of Clinical Quality Reporting
Between rising COVID cases, falling elective procedure volum ...
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01 Dec: 3 Ways Data Reduces Physician Burnout and Enhances Revenues ...
Burnout.
It was rampant among healthcare providers even before COVID-19. According to two recent surveys, the virus is now rais ...
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04 Nov: Five Revenue Cycle Optimization Tactics for the COVID Surge
Even before COVID-19 hit, hospitals were struggling to make ends meet with nearly a third operating at a loss. ...
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23 Oct: The Case for Prioritizing Revenue Cycle Optimization
Delivering high-quality patient care is the primary goal for physicians. But declining reimbursements and tighter margins mean tha ...
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22 Oct: Medical Billing Experts: Key to Your Organization’s Financ...
Even before COVID-19 turned the economics of healthcare upside down, managing the business side of health systems and physician gr ...
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13 Oct: Four Benefits of Automating Charge Note Reconciliation
Technology has long promised to ease administrative burdens on physicians and healthcare staff, but has a poor track record of del ...
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11 Sep: Proactively Improve Your Charge Capture with Internal Auditi...
If you do not have an internal charge capture audit program, you could be leaving money on the table or inviting an external audit ...
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09 Sep: 5 Functions that Improve Practice Management and Back-Office...
Thousands of healthcare systems, hospitals and physician practices rely on the Ingenious Med® application to capture charges and ...
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26 Aug: How to Harness the Power of Data to Improve Physician Produc...
Physicians and the care they provide patients are at the heart of any healthcare organization. If they are not meeting performance ...
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19 Aug: New Survey Shows Telehealth Growth
Providers face a fragmented market, lack EHR integration and need better charge capture
After hearing from many customers and rea ...
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13 Aug: 5 Questions to Ask about Revenue Cycle Analytics
Many healthcare organizations overlook untapped resources that can improve the revenue cycle management process, which depends on ...
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13 Aug: Mastering Medical Coding Compliance
Merely mentioning coding compliance to a physician may produce responses ranging from an eyeroll to dread and anxiety. The entire ...
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14 Jul: 5 Ways to Increase Revenue with Healthcare Business Analytic...
Healthcare organizations have experienced drastic volume declines in 2020 as well as the stress of caring for an unprecedented num ...
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06 Jul: Care Coordination and Care Collaboration: Improving Clinical...
Successfully aligning physician performance with the Triple Aim goals of reducing per capita healthcare costs, increasing care qua ...
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26 Jun: Seven Ways to Turbocharge Your Practice with Physician Tools
Electronic Health Records (EHR) are vital for the daily operations of a medical practice, but they are only one part of the IT too ...
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12 Jun: COVID-19 as a Catalyst for Change
How health systems can optimize revenues and resources
By Nimesh Shah, CEO, and Laura Chapman, VP of Product Management
The C ...
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10 Jun: The App Gap: 6 Essential Capabilities Your EHR Apps May Miss
Electronic health records cannot cover every clinical and operational hospital function, and the mobile versions of these systems ...
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05 Jun: MIPS Registry and Reporting: Increase Quality Time with Pati...
MACRA, MIPS, APM… the alphabet soup of medical documentation and billing can be daunting. Providers trained to improve health fi ...
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02 Jun: Mobile Charge Capture: The Key to Practice Revenue Optimizat...
Mobile charge capture might not be the first thing on the minds of healthcare providers as they focus on the health and well-being ...
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12 May: Coping with COVID-19 – Part 2
How Front-Line Healthcare Leaders are Strategically Managing Resource Challenges During the COVID-19 Crisis
In April 2020, Ingeni ...
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30 Apr: Coping with COVID-19 - Part 1
How Front-Line Healthcare Leaders are Solving Financial Challenges During the Covid-19 Crisis
On April 9, 2020, Ingenious Med CEO ...
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01 Apr: Five ways to overcome revenue cycle disruption during the CO...
Rising costs. Canceled surgeries and routine visits. Uncertain reimbursements for COVID-19 patient care. Longer lengths of stay in ...
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17 Mar: What’s holding us back from accurately evaluating performa...
In value-based care programs, flying blind is ill-advised. As more value-based care models incorporate two-sided risk, healthcare ...
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10 Feb: Point-of-care charge capture: Why it’s better for revenue ...
With intensifying pressures to grow revenues while managing costs, health systems and physician practices are renewing their effor ...
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16 Jan: 2020 Vision: The Top Five Trends Shaping Healthcare Tech
By Steve Liu, MD, Founder & CMO, and Jim Hall, Chief Revenue Officer
As we look ahead to a new decade and a year whose very ...
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05 Dec: Facility-Based Scoring: Your 2019 MIPS Safety Net
By Stephen Besch, Director of Clinical Quality Reporting
After a few years of relative stability, changes are afoot once again ...
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20 Nov: How health IT can improve coordination and quality while red...
By Robert Pearl, MD, guest blogger
The technology boom of the 1990s promised to give physicians access to comprehensive patient ...
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07 Nov: Top Takeaways from Becker’s Hospital Review 2019 Health IT...
What your health system needs to know
By Laura Chapman, VP of Product Management and Kevin Nicholas, VP of Marketing
It’s al ...
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24 Oct: Act now to avoid penalties as claims-based MIPS reporting en...
By Stephen Besch, Director of Clinical Quality Reporting
The rewards and risks of MIPS continue to grow, with a range of plus o ...
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25 Sep: Aligning physicians and health systems through analytics
by Steven Liu, MD, SFHM, Founder and Chief Medical Officer
Our recent webinar, Overcoming Blind Spots: Using Analytics to Impro ...
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07 Aug: Extending the Value of your EHR: What does it take?
As hospitals go through the different stages of EHR adoption, they need different strategies. Having robust revenue capture tools ...
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02 Jan: Revenue Cycle Top Performers - Infographic
What makes a top performer different than the rest of the market? Here are 5 questions your organization should answer if you want ...
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13 Dec: How RCM top performers stay ahead of the curve
While healthcare organizations often take similar approaches to revenue cycle management, the financial top performers distinguish ...
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06 Dec: Five Ways Hospital Leaders Can Improve Charge Capture
There are some small steps healthcare executives can take to ensure their hospital is capturing the right charges — and not the ...
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03 Dec: How Top Performing Health Organizations Reduce Missed Charge...
One of the most effective ways to improve a healthcare organization is to learn from other successful organizations. Healthcare le ...
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16 Nov: Leveraging Data to Drive Better Value-based Decisions
These organizations possess a vast amount of clinical, operational, and financial data, but it is exceptionally difficult to proce ...
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13 Nov: 4 Questions to Answer with Physician Performance Metrics
To identify areas where performance metrics could improve quality care and revenue cycle processes, ask the following questions of ...
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23 Oct: Optimizing the Charge Capture Process - Infographic
In 2018, Ingenious Med commissioned a study to determine what differences and similarities existed between acute-care organization ...
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22 Oct: Identifying Charge Capture Best Practices to Improve RCM
Though healthcare organizations consider revenue cycle management (RCM) one of the most important aspects of business, little rese ...
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21 Aug: Health IT and Care Quality: An Efficient Partnership
Critics in the medical industry have historically shown a skeptical attitude toward the implementation of new technology in health ...
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13 Aug: 3 Tips to Reduce Missing Bills
With so much variation and so many people with the opportunity to touch each charge, it’s easy to see how some are missed. Makin ...
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11 Jul: Calculating the Economic Benefits of Effective Charge Captur...
According to the 2016 Revenue Cycle Management Report, a survey of 2,000 independent physician practices and 200 hospital-based ph ...
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21 Jun: How the Effects of Under-Coding Have Gone from Bad to Worse
Now more than ever, data counts. “The revenue of many healthcare provider organizations is inexorably tied to charge capture. Th ...
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07 Jun: Why Effective Charge Capture Has Never Mattered More
Unprecedented Margin Pressure
For reasons ranging from shrinking Medicare rates to the continued shift of inpatient care to out ...
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08 Mar: Four Tips to Be a Better Steward of Opioid Prescriptions
The opioid epidemic is being called the worst public health crisis in America. And the numbers keep rising. I can remember a time ...
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30 Mar: The Transition to MACRA: Six Best Practices for Inpatient Qu...
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By Stephen Besch
Senior Systems Analyst, Director of Clinical Quality Reporting
The Q ...
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15 Mar: Change and Inadequate Tools Pose New Challenges for Physicia...
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By Joe Marabito, Ingenious Med Chief Executive Officer
Physicians are the most important elem ...
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27 Feb: Ingenious Med Named a TAG Top 40 Innovative Technology Compa...
Ingenious Med was named one of Georgia’s Top 40 Innovative Technology Companies by The Technology Association of Georgia (TAG). ...
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17 Oct: The Need for Evidence-Based Health Care
The amount of data in any given hospital or physician practice is staggering. Patient records, billing information, compliance fi ...
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