As hospitals and health systems strive to achieve maximum reimbursement, it is more crucial than ever they have a smooth cash reconciliation process.
Tyler Kurasek, a principal with Colburn Hill Group: Create a formal, documented and repeatable process. Finance and cash posting should be using the same workflow system. Compare true monthly net deposits to the sum of individually-tracked deposits for the given month. This prevents a backlog of data from developing and facilitates the ability of staff to deal with issues in a real-time manner.
To learn more about collecting on accounts, access this story from Becker's Hospital Review.
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