Strategic RCM Assessment: Identifying Critical Areas for Optimal Performance

For many hospitals and health systems, increased denials, lengthy appeals and payer requests for information continue to affect reimbursement and cash flow. Adding to the complexities of maintaining revenue, many providers are also in the process of replacing their EMR and legacy billing applications. Mergers and acquisitions within Health Systems also bring into play a significant amount of additional work to reconcile, distribute and report on all payments being posted (or re-worked) from multiple locations and HIM sources. In these circumstances, working with an experienced team to identify critical areas of need and viable options should be considered.

Implementing Permanent Revenue Cycle Improvements

One of the first steps in our planning is to identify those processes where we can deliver the most financial impact within a reasonable time frame. RCMS can provide a detailed analysis of your current processes and deliver a Solution Design Document (SDD) to use as a roadmap with implementing meaningful, permanent revenue cycle improvements. RCMS can also assist with the splitting/parsing of ERAs to help with payment posting from multiple EMR systems.


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Let us know a few details about your business office and any specific problem areas needing attention. RCMS can help to develop a project plan for implementing permanent revenue cycle improvements, including the use of workflow automation technology and/or outsourced options. Contact RCMS today


Automating RCM Workflow for Multiple EHR/EMR Systems

For larger hospital systems and IDNs with multiple facilities, they can often include hospitals, clinics and physician practice groups with disparate EHR/EMR and Practice Management (PM) systems. Processing claims and payment information from multiple systems and clearinghouses can create certain challenges that result in business office inefficiencies and lost revenue.

The goal of RCMS is to collect all of the claim, payment and deposit information needed to post and reconcile on one platform, so that automating revenue cycle processes can be optimized for the highest level of data accuracy and workforce efficiency. Customized rules can also be applied in the workflow for specific client requirements, such as allocating funds to divisions or for routing defects and exceptions to specific groups or work queues. We also use this ‘aggregated data’ to create a more complete analysis of the revenue cycle throughout the entire organization, eliminating the need to manually duplicate information to spreadsheets for management and reporting purposes.

For Health Systems and IDNs with multiple EHR/EMRs and PM systems, our ReSolve® A/R Management Platform provides the means to consolidate resources and improve business office processes – providing additional time for more productive tasks such as A/R collections and customer service. By using Intelligent Automation (IA) for improving workflow processes across multiple systems, we can significantly reduce and/or eliminate repetitive data entry that is prone to human error and a waste of valuable resources. Our integration with OnBase ECM, also provides significant staff efficiency with being able to retrieve and view correspondence documentation, indexed to the patient account.

In supporting a multi-system, complex business environment, some of the many benefits of ReSolve® include:

  • Automated repetitive tasks in conjunction with machine learning
  • Automated splitting/parsing of EDI transactions for more efficient processing
  • Connects multiple billing systems where APIs don’t exist
  • Hospitals and Practice Groups can maintain existing EHR/EMR and PM Systems
  • All ERA correspondence can be captured and indexed to the patient account for data validation, evidence of pre-authorizations and efficient follow up
  • BAI integration for full bank reconciliation from deposits to the individual billing systems
  • Robust reporting tools with integration to Microsoft Power BI and SSRS data visualization
  • Data analytics with drill-down capabilities for decreasing and preventing denials – and for creating permanent revenue cycle improvements
  • All revenue data is stored for auditing compliance with regulatory requirements
  • Workflow solutions for Eligibility (270 / 271) and Claims Status (276 / 277) inquiries
  • Allows staff to be more productive and focus on higher-value work

Working with RCMS

In partnership with your Accounting and IT teams, RCMS can work with your organization to develop a strategic plan that explores all areas of the revenue cycle. We bring decades of healthcare business office and software design experience that will help to improve your operations. Contact RCMS to schedule a discovery call or presentation of our company and its technology.


Automated Bank Reconciliation for Health Systems

Automated Matching and Reconciliation of all Posted and Distributed Remittance

Providing end-to-end reconciliation, from payment posting to bank deposits, ReSolve® Treasury Workstation turns your lockbox payment data into an exception-centric workflow that automates the matching and reconciliation of all posted and distributed remittances back to their associated lockbox deposits, without the need of third-party spreadsheets or manual re-entry of data.

ReSolve® Treasury Workstation automates the capture of electronic deposits received from your bank’s Banking Association Institute (BAI) data to create the source record for enterprise-level reconciliation. This includes multi-system environments in a centralized business office with two or more EHR/EMR billing systems.

With batch tracking and artificial intelligence (AI), all data is divided into four (4) areas: Bank Deposits; Treasury or Cash Journal; RCMS’ ReSolve® Payment Distribution; and the Host Billing System(s) for payment disbursements. The Cash Journal displays the Finance Department’s batching process for all deposits. The RCMS user interface displays the batches as posted in its Payment Processing system, and the Host Billing System displays batches as distributed to each unique billing system.

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Are you ready to automate and improve your business office? ReSolve® provides workflow automation and data quality benefits that significantly improve revenue cycle processes and KPIs — with synchronize data for adjustments and transfers.

Contact RCMS today to schedule a discovery call and demonstration.


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Fundamental Design Principles for Effective Cash Management

What are your revenue cycle improvement goals for 2024 and beyond? By integrating with your EHR host billing system (or multiple systems), Clearinghouses and other Line of Business (LOB) applications, the RCMS ReSolve® A/R Management Platform can automate workflows that significantly improve a wide array of cash management and revenue cycle processes.

Below are some of the key areas we address when working with our Integrated Delivery Network & Health System clients.

Steps Toward Improving Cash Management:

  • Integrate with host billing systems
  • Synchronize data for adjustments and transfers
  • Same day processing of today’s receipts
  • Use best available capture solutions
  • Capture all adjudication data
  • Automate the separation of remittance with parsing/splitting technology
  • Use data validation rules to cleanse, scrub and normalize payment data
  • Provide reconciliation from bank deposit through billing system to corporate general ledger (GL)
  • Monitor key revenue cycle performance metrics by payor, provider, or division
  • Identify the source of denied claims to resolve the root cause
  • Ensure that claim processes are audited to stop recurring denials

By integrating multiple healthcare information systems and revenue cycle applications with a common A/R Management Platform, RCMS can increase productivity, automate workflows and identify defects for timely adjudication. These steps will improve your cash management processes and reduce your cost to collect.

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Contact RCMS today to improve your cash management with the right design principals, systems integration experience, and software technology. We’ll help to improve revenue cycle processes for your entire business office.