title: Business-office challenges of small and rural hospitals.
abstract: All hospitals face tremendous challenges in optimizing their business-office operations these days. Tighter and more complex reimbursement requirements, ongoing human resources shortages, rising HR costs, and changes in information technology all affect operations and the bottom line. But small and rural hospitals, with their more limited resources and greater geographic and corporate isolation, are particularly challenged to optimize their business-office operations to improve revenue cycle management and reimbursement.
authors.affiliation: Kern Medical Center, Bakersfield, Calif., USA.
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Diaz
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hales
authors.forename: Frank C
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Massi
authors.forename: Curtis
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Olson
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shutak
mesh_terms: D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006780:Hospitals, Rural / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D009817:Office Management; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D014481:United States