title: No more lost clinic charges: using IT for recovery and measurement.
abstract: Identifying missed opportunities for revenue requires examining front-end processes and how they might join with transactions generated during processes of care. Linking the initiation of a charge to an important process in the clinic procedures helps ensure capture of both professional and facility charges. Implementing a software program to automatically initiate correlated charges and measuring the change in charges and revenue are steps that provide a substantial revenue opportunity for healthcare organizations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Informatic, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn, USA. fern.fitzhenry@vanderbilt.edu
authors.forename: Fern
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: FitzHenry
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: Johniene
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Doran
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers / Q000191:economics; D000067:Accounts Payable and Receivable; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational / Q000191:economics*; D005251:Fees, Medical; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D010350:Patient Credit and Collection / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013714:Tennessee