Hospital & Health System CFO's aren't alone wondering whether their Patient Financial Services Team is an Asset or a Liability ... and this is AFTER completion of whatever Learning Management System (web-based, CD-ROM, Instructor-Led Training, or ... !!!
This Presentation was created over ten years ago as a proprietary proposal for a national association of financial professionals. Ten Years After ... how does your Health System match up? If you're TEAM isn't tracking along these metrics, how much is it costing YOU?
2. Workforce Performance Solutions
♦ Helping Organizations understand how to
re-align and position resources in today's
cost sensitive, highly demanding efficient
workplace.
♦ Supporting company leadership with an
un-biased, “non-secular” approach to
Project Management.
3. Human Capital Capability:
The Reality
Research points to a significant
payoff to organizations that invest
in exceptional human capital
development, but few do a good
job of it.
4. The Advantage of Superior HCC
Practices
♦ A Leading Indicator of Financial Performance
♦ Provide Returns to Shareholders 3 Times Greater
than Companies with Weak Practices
♦ Research Points to Certain Specific Practices
improving Shareholder Value while Others
Diminish It
5. Evolution of HCC Interventions
and ROI Factors
FROMFROM
♦ Backward looking ROI
♦ Discrete learning events
♦ Reactive
♦ Lacks credibility
♦ Tactical
♦ Necessary but not sufficient
♦ Used for self-justification
TOTO
♦ Predictive, diagnostic value
♦ Total integrated development
♦ Proactive
♦ Drives accountability
♦ Strategic
♦ Necessary and sufficient
♦ Directs Continuous
Improvement
6. Practices linking Human Capital
and Shareholder Value
♦ Total Rewards and Accountability
♦ Collegial, flexible workplaces
♦ Recruiting and Retention
♦ Communications Integrity
♦ Focused HR Service Technologies
8. Diagnostic Value Practice
♦ To establish a front-end to Phase I that
creates a well defined and client supported
approach, timeline, commitment and set of
expectations.
♦ To link a clients strategic and financial
objectives, business processes and
performance metrics.
9. Practice Approach
♦ Diagnostic Value Practice is an approach used to
define and analyze a unique set of ROI metrics
used to measure the impact “selected” Business
Processes have on Revenue Cycle.
♦ This approach uses strategy, a structured
methodology, a set of tools, templates & processes
for capturing and intersecting “selected” Business
Processes with Revenue Cycles, to deliver a
unique and usable set of ROI metrics.
10. Method
♦ Identify Business Processes
♦ Identify Revenue Cycle Metrics
♦ Review all impacts
♦ Create baseline
♦ Review Outcomes
♦ Make Recommendations
♦ Support Recommendation Implementation
♦ Monitor Impacted Metrics
11. DVP Process
Interview
Scheduling
PRE-Kick- Off
Preparation
Kick- Off
Meeting
Step 1. Clearly Define Need
Work Shop
Tools
Assessment
Business
Objective
Review
Metrics Review
Member Input
Marketing &
Distribution
Plan
Work Force
Resources
Operations
Review
Step 2. Gather Input (Capture, Collect and Scope)
Step 3. Analysis & Assessment of Information
Prototype
Project Plan
Resource Plan
Solution
“Other”
Recommendation
s
Summary
Step 4. Translate Analysis
into Requirements Definition
12. Compelling “Diagnostic
Value Practice” Benefits
Diagnostic ValueDiagnostic ValueDiagnostic ValueDiagnostic Value
Benefits
Benefits
Benefits
Benefits
BusinessBusiness
ProcessesProcesses
Workflow
Human CapitalHuman Capital
Competent
Staff
Profile &
Performance
Review
Integrated
Process
Workflow
Continuous
Improvement
Human
Capital
Development
Optimum
Performance
Strategic VisionStrategic Vision
FinancialFinancial
MetricsMetrics
Key
Performance
Indicators
Financial
Performance
Metrics
Profitable
ROI
13. Learning Cycle to Revenue Cycle
Pain
Compliance
Determinat
ion
Of Medical
Necessity
Pain
Compliance
Determination
Of Medical
Necessity
Interventio
ns
Coding
Curriculum
Interventions
Coding
Curriculum
Advanced
Beneficiary
Notification of
Services Not
Covered
Targeted
Questions
Billing Errors,
Type, %, #
Collections
Metrics:%
Billings Denied,
Appealed &
Paid
Metrics
Industry
Standards;%
Paid, Denied,
Appealed
Industry
Standards;
% to Total
Dashboard
Coding
Errors +/- %
Increase in
Billings Paid,
Increase in
Customer
Satisfaction
14. Applying theApplying the
Diagnostic Value PracticeDiagnostic Value Practice
to Revenue Cycle Managementto Revenue Cycle Management
in Healthcarein Healthcare
Optimizing Business PerformanceOptimizing Business Performance
16. Major Cost & Productivity ExposuresMajor Cost & Productivity Exposures
in HC Revenue Cycle Managementin HC Revenue Cycle Management
♦ Highly Fragmented Business ProcessesHighly Fragmented Business Processes
♦ High Staff Turnover/Lack of ContinuityHigh Staff Turnover/Lack of Continuity
♦ Lack of Standards for Staff Training/PerformanceLack of Standards for Staff Training/Performance
♦ Untimely and Costly Process BottlenecksUntimely and Costly Process Bottlenecks
♦ Lack of Accountability and CommunicationLack of Accountability and Communication
♦ Costly Visibility Downstream in Financial OutcomesCostly Visibility Downstream in Financial Outcomes
♦ Disparate Legacy System TechnologyDisparate Legacy System Technology
17. Evolution of the Managed HCEvolution of the Managed HC
Revenue Cycle ProcessRevenue Cycle Process
Revenue Cycle Management ProcessesRevenue Cycle Management Processes
Revenue Cycle Success FactorsRevenue Cycle Success Factors
ProcessManagement
Revenue Cycle Process ImprovementRevenue Cycle Process Improvement
CompetentCompetent
QualifiedQualified
StaffStaff
Revenues
Rewards &Rewards &
Incentives =Incentives =
ImprovementImprovement
ProcessProcess
WorkflowWorkflow
ManagementManagement
Business &Business &
FinancialFinancial
MetricsMetrics
RegistrationRegistration
& Admissions& Admissions
RevenueRevenue
Collections/Collections/
ReconciliationReconciliation
Patient CarePatient Care
Services &Services &
ChargesCharges
ServiceService
CodingCoding
& Billing& Billing
18. Key Performance IndicatorsKey Performance Indicators
♦ # Hrs. to Register/Verify Eligibility/Admit Patients# Hrs. to Register/Verify Eligibility/Admit Patients
♦ # Minutes to Complete UB92 Billing# Minutes to Complete UB92 Billing
♦ Number of UB92 Bills Submitted DailyNumber of UB92 Bills Submitted Daily
♦ % of Bills Reworked and Resubmitted% of Bills Reworked and Resubmitted
♦ # Days Claims Paid in 30 Days# Days Claims Paid in 30 Days
♦ # Days A/R Outstanding# Days A/R Outstanding
♦ # Days A/P Outstanding# Days A/P Outstanding
♦ % Reduction in Expenses -Revenue Cycle% Reduction in Expenses -Revenue Cycle
ManagementManagement
♦ % Improvement if RCM Staff Performance/Production% Improvement if RCM Staff Performance/Production
♦ % Reduction in Staff Turnover% Reduction in Staff Turnover
♦ % Improvement from Staff Training Programs% Improvement from Staff Training Programs
♦ % Compliance Increase with Performance Indicators% Compliance Increase with Performance Indicators
19. Improvements in ROI PerformanceImprovements in ROI Performance
♦ Improved Revenue Cycle EfficienciesImproved Revenue Cycle Efficiencies
♦ Improved Employee Performance/ProductivityImproved Employee Performance/Productivity
♦ Improved Employee Retention & SatisfactionImproved Employee Retention & Satisfaction
♦ Reductions in Billing and Payment CycleReductions in Billing and Payment Cycle
♦ Improved Compliance with PKIsImproved Compliance with PKIs
♦ Measurable Improvement in ROIMeasurable Improvement in ROI
20. Evolution of Learning:Evolution of Learning:
Revenue Cycle RelationshipRevenue Cycle Relationship
ChargesCharges
& Codes& Codes
RegistrationRegistration
PatientPatient
BillingBilling
CollectionsCollections
AccountAccount
ReconcileReconcile
LMSLMS
FinancialFinancial
ManagementManagement
ROIROI
StrategicStrategic
ContributionsContributions
Human CapitalHuman Capital
DevelopmentDevelopment
Performance IndicatorsPerformance Indicators
Revenue GoalsRevenue Goals
21. Value-Added Benefits fromValue-Added Benefits from
Workforce Performance SolutionsWorkforce Performance Solutions
♦ In-Depth Experience and Knowledge Base of
Healthcare Providers and Payers
♦ Hands On Healthcare Provider/Payment and Billing
and Collection Expertise
♦ Experience in Strategy Development
♦ Define and Link HCC factors to Improvements in
Revenue Cycle Enhancements and ROI
♦ Proven Methodology & Project Approach to
Improve Internal Processes or Outsource Solutions
♦ Project-Based Success Metrics
22. Workforce Performance Solutions
♦ Experts in defining & linking HCC factors and
ROI metrics
♦ Cumulative 45+ years of Business Process
Experience
– Healthcare - Provider/Payment
– Pharma, Insurance, Manufacturing
– Distribution, Operations , Customer Service
– Strategy Development
♦ Proven Methodology and Project Approach
– Implementation of relevant LMS/TMS tools & technologies
– Workforce performance management
– Project management
♦ Delivering Projects Based on Success Metrics
Practices linking Human Capital and Shareholder Value
Optimizing Business Performance
is utilized to provide quality and thorough set of requirements, recommendations and solutions. This is done through a set of processes, tools and templates to clarify the project goal. Data is gathered through a set of targeted questions, interviews, surveys and analysis of various operations measurements.
Identify Business Processes Identify Revenue Cycle Metrics Review all impacts Create baseline Review Outcomes Make Recommendations Support Recommendation Implementation Monitor Impacted Metrics