Most hospitals, whether or not they choose to directly employ physicians or manage hospital-owned medical practices or groups, desire to maintain a productive, mutually beneficial and coordinated relationship with independent but affiliated medical practices whose providers are on-staff at the hospital. And while those practices, being independently owned, are responsible for their own revenue cycle management, a hospital can still take important steps to enhance the affiliated-provider relationship.
Having a revenue cycle management expert engaged by the hospital and made available to assist the independent practices with issues they share in common and that pertain both to revenue cycle opportunities and their underlying relationship with the hospital, is very important and valuable.
The issues addressed can be software-related, especially if some of the practices share a common practice management software system. Or the issues can be more directly revenue-cycle related, including coding, medical billing training, patient balance management, refund processing, centralized collection agency interface, or the establishment of electronic bank lockbox protocols.
It is also helpful to have a third party revenue cycle expert involved in projects such as lab interfaces, interoperability development, data interfaces with hospital systems and the selection of updated software systems.
Precision has knowledge and expertise in all of these areas and has for many years provided comprehensive support to many independent medical practices, spanning many different medical specialties. With that background and expertise, Precision can serve as a strong advocate for optimized revenue cycle management support to IPAs, multi-specialty medical groups and single-specialty independent practices, in coordination with a professionally-directed hospital relationship.
"In leaving a hospital-owned group to start my own independent practice, I knew I was taking a big step and wanted first-rate assistance in handling non-clinical matters associated with the transition. My goal was to expand my practice from obstetrics and gynecology to add laser and aesthetics, which added to the complexity of my plan. So I chose Precision to assist me, in part because they came highly recommended. Precision set up my accounting and payroll. Precision converted my patient data to the new system, and developed my clinical EHR screens just the way that I wanted them. – they are there right away when I need them."
