title: Pharmacy revenue cycle audits can bring unexpected returns.
abstract: An end-to-end pharmacy revenue cycle analysis, led by a multidisciplinary team with broad expertise, can enable a hospital to identify unsuspected errors and oversights that could be causing the organization to lose millions of dollars in revenue annually that it is entitled to receive. If the analysis finds that considerable revenue is being lost, the next step for the team should be to develop a remediation plan to identify the exact cause of each issue and correct it. Following completion of the initial analysis, the hospital should assign permanent accountability and ownership to the team to ensuring the ongoing integrity and accuracy of the pharmacy revenue cycle.
authors.affiliation: Visante, Minneapolis, USA. dmiller@visanteinc.com
authors.forename: Douglas E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: Kristin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fox-Smith
mesh_terms: D005375:Financial Audit / Q000379:methods*; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D010607:Pharmacy Service, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States