Factory approach can streamline patient accounting.
Although they may seem fundamentally different, similarities exist between operations of factories and healthcare organizations' business offices. As a result, a patient accounting approach based on manufacturing firms' management techniques may help smooth healthcare business processes. Receivables performance management incorporates the Japanese techniques of "just-in-time" and total quality management to reduce unbilled accounts and information backlog and accelerate payment. A preliminary diagnostic assessment of a patient accounting process helps identify bottlenecks and set priorities for work flow.
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D000067:Accounts Payable and Receivable; D004526:Efficiency; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D007221:Industry / Q000458:organization & administration; D007564:Japan; D008330:Management Audit; D010350:Patient Credit and Collection / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States; D014941:Work Simplification