Projects on the backburner, like having a remote workforce, paperless patient communications, and electronic signatures, have been implemented faster out of necessity.
Skyrocketing coverage losses, unemployment fears, and payers reimbursing a bigger chunk of COVID-19 claims are just three ways that the crisis is changing the health insurance landscape.
Cash-strapped providers will be eager to get the ball rolling on revenue-generating elective procedures again when it's safe to do so, but rescheduling hundreds of deferred patient procedures won't be easy.
University of Chicago surgeons have been using the new Medically Necessary Time-Sensitive Prioritization process for about two weeks, and have increased the number of medically necessary, time-sensitive operations to about 15 per day.
Practices report a 60% average decrease in patient volume and a 55% average decrease in revenue since the beginning of the public health emergency, an MGMA survey finds.
Patrick McDermott, interim VP of revenue cycle for ProMedica, discusses how his revenue cycle team quickly worked to enable employees to work safely at home in response to COVID-19 and how to manage the workforce in this new environment.
Organizations need a "single source of truth" for getting, vetting, and disseminating updates, rather allowing disparate groups of people to act on their own, chase down leads, and possibly communicate incorrect or incomplete information based on whatever they've heard...
The model, developed by researchers at University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS), has already informed decision-making at both the system and government levels.
