Revenue cycle management (RCM) in healthcare is the fiscal process that guides the identification, management and collection of payments for patient services. The process begins with patient...

We understand that your focus is (and should be) caring for your patients. But we also understand that patient care cannot happen without processes in place to ensure proper payment of expenses....

For physician practices, hospitals and all healthcare organizations, streamlining your revenue cycle management is critical. One of the best ways to recoup payments faster is with up-front...

If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that nurses rise to the challenge during times of crisis. For months, we’ve heard heroic stories of nurses playing pivotal roles in the pandemic response and...

Nurses are the heart of every healthcare organization. Not only are they passionate about providing expert care, they are also educators, counselors and their patients’ strongest advocates. While...

This year has been a roller coaster so far, with influenza and COVID-19 wreaking havoc in healthcare facilities across the country and world. While many of us may still be in recovery – or even...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended timeline requirements for reporting direct staffing data in skilled nursing facilities. The extension is part of a series of blanket...

Skilled nursing facilities will see the timeline requirements for reporting the Minimum Data Set (MDS) to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) extended as they work to keep residents...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced it will waive several requirements for SNF residents impacted by COVID-19. The measures, which were announced at the end of April,...

To help protect skilled nursing facilities against COVID-19 outbreaks, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began focusing inspections on infection control programs in March. With...

True collaboration – where joint communication and decision making occur among all the members of a healthcare team – is a cornerstone of quality care. Studies have shown healthcare teams who do...

Your patients are always your first priority. That said, to best serve them, you need to maintain a financially successful organization. And, with increasing patient responsibility across...

Nurses work hard and they deserve a break. That’s why it can be especially troubling when you have to deny them a weekend or holiday off. Or when you can’t accommodate a last-minute shift change...

Nurses are the frontline of resident care – they spend more time at the bedsides of those in their care than most other healthcare team members. No one knows better than a skilled nursing...

Being a nurse is a hard, often thankless job – and with the World Health Organization (WHO) designating 2020 the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife – we want to do our part to help you...

As quality of care takes the forefront of how skilled nursing facilities are evaluated and reimbursed, nurses increasingly face more complex challenges. They are caring for higher acuity...

Until just a few years ago, patient payments were not necessarily the highest priority for healthcare organizations attempting to capture more revenue. Today, though, patient financial...