Allegiance Group provides turn-key solutions to automate the collection of outstanding balances for healthcare providers. In this article, HME Business mentions Allegiance Group as a provider that can help optimize your revenue cycle management. (The following excerpts are from the article printed by HME Business in June 2019.)
This acronym-heavy HME industry, you might have come across yet another three-letter abbreviation, RCM. It stands for revenue cycle management, and it could change your business.
Don’t confuse RCM with billing. Billing is the process of filing claims with reimbursement sources such as Medicare or private payer plans. Then it follows up with those funding sources to ensure the claims get reimbursed. RCM is broader than that. RCM encompasses billing and claims management, but it also optimizes how claims denial is handled, how patient co-pays are collected, and how much staff time is expended on claims. Revenue Cycle Management tracks the revenues and costs related to a patient’s interaction with a healthcare provider from the beginning and end of the process. RCM is the umbrella under which all revenues are managed and maximized.
And now, RCM has come to the HME industry. In fact, in some ways, it has been here, thanks to the software systems and services that have proliferated in the HME industry. However, HME software makers have started working with providers in earnest to start defining how RCM should work in the HME industry to help providers overhaul their entire revenue performance — not just refine their billing.
In addition to implementing new software solutions, another option is to outsource parts of the RCM process to third parties. Various third-party companies serving the HME industry specialize in particular elements of billing and claims processing. For instance, one outsourcer, Allegiance Group, specializes in patient pay and another, Prochant, focuses on insurance.
To learn more about how to optimize your revenue cycle management, read the full article in HME Business.
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