Case Studies
Remote Coding
Baptist Health System Overcomes Staffing Issues by Deploying Latest Coding
Technology
Nationwide, HIM departments spend a significant amount of time and money on
recruiting and retaining certified coding professionals. Chronic staffing issues
and workload volume fluctuations require constant attention.
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Total HIM Outsource
HIM Consulting and Outsourcing Yield Big Improvements to Performance and Satisfaction
Prince William Hospital has always looked for new ways to increase productivity within its Health Information Management (HIM) function.
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Transcription Services
Baptist Health System Improves Transcription Productivity and Saves Money
Baptist Health System (BHS) of Alabama, a seven- hospital system located in the greater Birmingham area, struggled to get its completed transcription documents transferred electronically for physician access.
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Precyse Technology, People and Process Combine to Deliver Outstanding
Customer Results
Ingalls Memorial Hospital, a 500+ bed health system in suburban Chicago, faced
major issues with its incumbent outsourced transcription provider: unacceptable
turnaround times, unhappy physicians, and
compliance was at risk.
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Cost Savings, Turn-around and Workflow Improvements Define Decision to
Outsource Transcription
Valley Health selected Precyse Solutions from a field of more than 25 vendors
and the positive outcomes
continue more than two years later.
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RAC Audit
DRGs Record Review Helps Overturn RAC Decisions and Identify Education Opportunities
When CMS announced its plans for the three-year Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) demonstration project, hospitals in the targeted states of California, Florida and New York braced for the anticipated high volume of extra work the initiative would produce.
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Radiology
Safety Net Facility Chooses PrecyseNet®. Everyone is Feeling More Secure as a Result
East Orange General Hospital is a designated Safety Net Hospital, a vital healthcare resource serving a largely uninsured, Medicaid-enrolled population residing just outside Newark, New Jersey.
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Oncology
Unmatched Oncology Data Expertise Results in ACoS CoC Approval with Commendation.
A large academic medical center in the urban Northeast found itself in 2004 with critical abstracting backlogs and potential deficiencies in ACoS standards with an ACoS survey in the near future.
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Interim HIM Management
A mid-sized Florida hospital, located in a resort community, encountered a
series of Health Information Management (HIM) department issues, which combined,
were wreaking havoc on the entire organization’s workflow. The hospital
needed a partner that could quickly come on board and bring both experienced
staffing resources and proven processes to turn the struggling HIM department
around and get things back to normal.
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Clinical Documentation Improvement
When Valley Health’s Senior Vice President of Finance and CFO first crunched
the financial projections in 2007, he forecasted a potential $1+ million loss
based upon the CMS requirement to implement the new MS-DRGs. Valley Health’s
executive team proactively approached the issue. Instead of depending on outside
contractors and consultants, they wanted to develop an offensive strategy that
could help them mitigate some of this reimbursement loss, while creating a
sustainable capability within the organization.
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Education
Health System Chooses Education As a Strategy To Fill The Gaps In Its Coding Ranks
A large west coast health system recently addressed a common business issue with a bold solution. The central business office (CBO) had combined billing and coding functions and historically had placed higher priority on the billing activities.
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