Rural Health Funding Gets Boost via Provider Partnerships

Among the free services CRHC’s Partnership Program will provide are:

• Billing and coding assistance
• Healthy clinic assessment, which looks at all business practices, starting with answering phones and checking in patients
• Improving patient satisfactions
• Studying cycle times to make sure patients are being seen most efficiently
• Improving adherence to care guidelines and chronic disease management
• Improving quality, processes, and patient safety
• Assisting with health IT adoption, including helping facilities choose the right system; get the right system upgrades; qualify for meaningful use; working with vendors on contracting; and analyzing data to improve patient outcomes
• Assuring correct policies and procedures are in place to ensure Medicare/Medicaid compliance