Revenue Cycle Management
He most recently served as vice president of financial operations for Scottsdale Lincoln Health Network's Arizona Market.
A move last year by Urology of Greater Atlanta to collect payments up front and establish an e-billing automatic payment plan has resulted in fewer surgeries but greater revenue.
Lessing comes to the hospital from Louisiana where he most recently served as the CFO of the 223-bed St. Tammany Parish Hospital.
Mayo Clinic picked Epic for revenue cycle, President Obama floated predictive medicine at the State of the Union, Arkansas planned to extend its private option and the Sustainable Growth rate saw its day on The Hill.
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The Mayo Clinic on Tuesday said it will ditch its in-house electronic health record systems and instead contract with Verona, Wisconsin-based Epic for patient records and revenue cycle management.
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Providers are increasingly outsourcing to ensure maximum collections amid changing payment models.
New payment models and technology in healthcare are bringing big changes to the hospital controller job as "following the money" has become more complicated than ever.
Population-based payments will make the new year interesting for those working in hospital revenue cycle. Add in the uncertainty surrounding ICD-10 implementation and financial managers have much to focus on in 2015.