title: Times change, and so do managed care strategies.
abstract: Gateway Health System in Clarksville, Tenn., developed a strategy to enhance revenue and improve cash flow. The health system's objectives were to create better business office practices that would allow staff to more effectively monitor payment and capture lost revenue and to improve the system's financial position with commercial and public sector payers.
mesh_terms: D000067:Accounts Payable and Receivable; D019985:Benchmarking; D003284:Contract Services / Q000191:economics*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005376:Financial Management / Q000379:methods*; D007182:Income; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics*; D006278:Medicare; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010934:Planning Techniques; D013714:Tennessee