HFMA's MAP Event: Leading for Revenue Cycle Excellence
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Catholic Healthcare West: New Charge Capture Processes Lead to Revenue Integrity Execllence
Program Code:
PR2
Date:
Sunday
,
November
7,
2010
Time:
3:30 PM to 4:22 PM
EST
SPEAKER
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about each speaker.
Kelley Blair,
MAOL, Vice President of Professional Services,
Craneware, Inc.
Kelley Blair is vice president of Professional Services for Craneware, Inc., where she helps hospitals better manage revenue cycle strategy projects by providing healthcare operations insights, best practices, performance improvement methods and measurement tools. Blair has more than 13 years of revenue cycle operations management and performance improvement experience and is also a certified Six Sigma Black Belt with formal training and experience using Lean and Focus PDCA improvement methodologies in complex integrated health systems. Blair holds a masters degree in Organizational Leadership with a focus on strategic management. She has been a featured speaker at various industry conferences, webcasts, user group meetings, and hospital orientation and training sessions.
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Katie LeBlanc is Senior Director of Revenue Services for Catholic Healthcare West (CHW). With 42 hospitals in the Western United States, CHW is the nations eighth largest hospital provider, and Californias largest 340B provider, with 21 participating facilities. In her role, LeBlanc established standardized billing and pricing methodologies for pharmacy and works with 340B facilities to respond to all regulatory changes impacting billing and reimbursement. LeBlanc worked with SNHPA to form a California 340B coalition focused on NDC and acquisition-cost billing requirements. LeBlanc has presented at a number of industry conferences, webcasts, software user group meetings, and hospital orientation and training sessions. LeBlanc holds a Bachelors degree from Arizona State University and is completing her Masters in Nonprofit Administration at University of Notre Dame.
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Description
In an environment where hospitals are looking at ways to drive better financial outcomes, Catholic Healthcare West can share its best practices for using Cranewares Chargemaster Toolkit technology to improve processes and strengthen compliance. They also used Cranewares Bill Analyzer to identify issues that can delay billing. Attendees will learn how to optimize their organizations reimbursement, improve operational efficiency and improve compliance using automated tools to enhance charge capture processes. Specific outcomes include:
Increased Operational Efficiencies by decreasing denials and claim rework
Increased reimbursement by identifying missing charging opportunities
Learning Objectives:
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Assess compliance with the CDM-management process on a real-time basis.
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Examine how automated tools can help you hold departments and employees accountable for managing the CDM and charge capture processes more effectively.
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Manage charge capture processes more effectively through the implementation of automated tools
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Study examples of how automated tools can improve reimbursement, compliance and operational efficiency.