Discussion: Getting Started and Reimbursement Inefficiencies

  

Initial Post:

Give a brief overview of your educational background and experience in healthcare or other business. Share a personal experience dealing with healthcare reimbursement and any inefficiencies with the process. How does reimbursement tie into the revenue cycle?

Educational Background:

Pharmacology Degree

Peer response: 

In response to your peers, support the points they made around what seems to be working and what needs improvements with one additional idea.

Reading and Resources

Lecture 1.1: Healthcare Finance and the Revenue Cycle 

http://snhu-media.snhu.edu/files/course_repository/undergraduate/hcm/hcm345/module_one.pdf

Textbook: Health Care Finance and the Mechanics of Insurance and Reimbursement, Chapters 1 and 10

Library Article: Effective Hospital Revenue Cycle Management: Is There a Trade-Off Between the Amount of Patient Revenue and the Speed of Revenue Collection?

PDF: HFMA Revenue Cycle