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Hospital Denials and How to Fight Them
Health insurance in the United States is a necessary complexity that is required to ensure medical emergencies are paid for. Insurance, however, doesn't always come through to pay for everything related to an insured patient's care. Hospital denials occur when an...
Daily Charge Reconciliation: Finding Lost Revenue
A healthcare organization’s revenue cycle can quickly become disorganized if there aren’t effective practices and procedures being utilized across all departments. A clean and methodical charge reconciliation process is an absolute necessity because it enables fast...
What is the No Surprises Act?
What is the No Surprises Act? The No Surprises Act (NSA), is a federal law that applies new measures to protect Americans who receive emergency and non-emergency care at in-network facilities. Introduced by Congress in January 2020 with a rollout date of January 2022,...
What is Charge Capture’s Role in Healthcare?
What is Charge Capture? Charge capture is the practice of health care providers documenting and recording their performed services and then submitting those charges for payment from a patient or insurance provider. After a patient has completed their visit, the...
What Are CPT Codes?
In healthcare, CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) codes are numbers used to describe the tests, surgeries, evaluations, and any other medical procedure performed by healthcare providers at an institution or hospital. Published twice a year and maintained by the...
Revenue Integrity and Healthcare
What is Revenue Integrity? Revenue integrity is the practice of translating patient experiences to revenue in a healthcare organization and avoiding revenue leakage or compliance issues. Once referred to as “revenue optimization,” the term “revenue integrity” is a...
Avelead Partners with USA Health in System-Wide Cerner Millennium Upgrade
We're happy to announce that Avelead is now a member of the Streamline Health family! With our shared mission to be leaders in healthcare revenue integrity, we’re excited to see what the future holds for both companies. Read the press release below outlining the...
Three Ways Third-Party Software Vendors Can Help a Hospital Increase Their Patient Satisfaction
With all the pressure and requirements of today, it’s more important than ever for hospitals to mobilize their organizations so they can put more focus on patients’ quality of care. The issue is that a hospital can leave itself vulnerable to errors, revenue leakage,...
Expert’s Corner: Daniel Rasmussen for Avelead ContractID
Avelead’s Daniel Rasmussen is the mastermind behind Avelead ContractID, a software that helps hospitals gain leverage and insight into all their contracts. With his years of experience in the healthcare technology field, he has been able to help hospitals discover...
Transforming Healthcare with Technology: How Better Care Has Been Created
Technology in Healthcare To say that technology has transformed healthcare is an understatement. The use of technology has not only made patient care more reliable, but it has given hospitals insight into data they didn’t have access to before with manual processes....
Expert’s Corner: Dan Hildebrandt for Avelead CashID
Avelead’s Dan Hildebrandt has built an excellent reputation as the go-to guy for everything that involves Avelead CashID, a software that helps hospitals reconcile their financial deposits. With his extensive experience, he, along with Avelead’s other experts, has...
Four Benefits of a Healthcare Audit
What is a Healthcare Audit? A healthcare audit is a comprehensive and in-depth evaluation of the practices and processes in a healthcare facility. While there are numerous types of healthcare audits, the most common internal inspections usually primarily focus on...
How Healthcare IT Consulting Can Benefit Your Organization
Because of fast-paced environments within hospitals, making any sort of change can be difficult since major problems can often start at the foundation level. To even start the recovery process, healthcare organizations will have to isolate each issue and be honest...
4 Ways to Improve Revenue Cycle Management in 2022
Revenue cycle management (or RCM) is a multi-faceted process that touches all parts of a hospital. Organizations that aren't prepared to take control of their revenue flow can find themselves leaking millions as their bottom line decreases. These are challenging times...
Four Tips to Better Chargemaster Management
Every hospital in the country relies heavily on its chargemaster – without it, you wouldn't be able to properly track and bill the necessary services you're providing. By acting as the centralized data hub for your medical staff, particularly CNOs and Revenue...
How Hospitals Can Stay Competitive
On a regular basis, hospitals use their chargemaster price as a base price when they are negotiating with private insurance providers, but it doesn’t stop there. Current market fluctuations are the ultimate decider, forcing the hospital and providers to agree upon a...
Managing Change Control in Healthcare
Over the last decade, systems within healthcare organizations have experienced numerous, transformational changes to bring efficiency and structure. All departments have gone through some kind of change but most of the alterations can be attributed to those sectors...
EMRs vs. EHRs: Which One Should I Choose?
Healthcare records are an integral part of a hospital, but they come in several different forms including paper, EMR, and EHR. If you’re thinking about an EHR or EMR conversion, it’s important to know which one is a better fit for you. What exactly is the difference...
3 Tips to Transform Your Revenue Cycle Management
Revenue cycle management is a multi-faceted process that touches all parts of a hospital. Hospitals not prepared to take control of their revenue flow find themselves leaking millions as their bottom line falls away. These are challenging times for hospitals around...
Healthcare Claims: The Role of 835s and 837s
Intro Recovering healthcare claims from insurance providers is an essential part of good revenue cycle management, but the process is convoluted. This claims process revolves around two different files. 835s, and 837s. These files can be understood as the bill and the...
Three Tips for Fixing Your Hospital’s Accounts Receivable Discrepancies
In healthcare, accounts receivable, or AR, is the balance of money due from patients. Processing healthcare claims is an essential step in the revenue cycle management journey. From 837s to 835s, it’s a long process, and not always an easy one. Even if you handle...
Revenue Cycle Management – A Comprehensive Guide
Intro The healthcare revenue cycle is the flow of money through a hospital. Revenue cycle management is the process of finding, gathering, and managing that flow of revenue from patients and payers to ensure monetary stability and success. On this page, we will unpack...
8 Steps to a Successful EHR Conversion
The last several decades have seen a significant shift in the healthcare world. Clinical and financial systems are switching from paper to electronic, and hospitals that can’t keep up could be missing out on massive record-keeping advantages. A successful EHR...
What Should You Look for in a Healthcare IT Consulting Firm?
Overview In the last few decades, an increasing number of hospitals have sought to keep up with the technology boom by outsourcing their IT to third-party consulting firms. In 2020, that trend has risen exponentially as hospitals scramble to deal with the Covid-19...
How to Achieve Compliance with the Hospital Price Transparency Mandate
What is the Hospital Price Transparency Mandate? What does it mean for your hospital? Access to cost-sharing information Disclosure of prices Shoppable list How a hospital can meet the deadline The hard way Building a team Online interface Competitive pricing The easy...
Avelead a Proud Partner in U.S. National Health IT Week 2019
Atlanta, GA (September 23, 2019) – Avelead is a Proud Partner in U.S. National Health IT Week This September 23-27, Avelead — is a Proud Partner of U.S. National Health IT Week. U.S. National Health IT Week is a nationwide action week focused on supporting healthy...
RSM and Avelead Automate Revenue Cycle for Middle Market Health Care
Solution reduces processing errors, protects commonly lost revenue for hospitals and health systems CHICAGO (September 13, 2019) – RSM US LLP (“RSM”) – the nation’s leading provider of audit, tax and consulting services focused on the middle market – and Avelead – a...
Avelead a Proud Partner in U.S. National Health IT Week 2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Atlanta, GA (October 10, 2018) - Avelead a Proud Partner in U.S. National Health IT Week 2018 Initiated in 2006 by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), National Health IT Week has emerged as a landmark...
Let’s Continue the Conversation
As we roll up our sleeves to take on 2018, we are looking back at the successes of the year that just passed. We are thankful for the opportunity to serve our clients and share our appreciation for connecting at the recent CHC2017 in Kansas City. At Avelead, we pride...
Cerner Health Conference 2017
We recently had the opportunity to participate in the Cerner Health Conference (CHC2017) and were fortunate to spend some quality time with our customers and potential partners who are looking for assistance with their Cerner implementation. Some of the topics...