Jennifer Timmerman serves as division director of revenue cycle at Omaha, Neb.-based CHI Health.
Ms. Timmerman will be on panel "HIT and EHRs - Ensuring ROI, Improving Physician Satisfaction and More" at Becker's 7th Annual Health IT + Revenue Cycle, which will take place in Chicago from Oct. 4-7.
To learn more about the conference and Ms. Timmerman's session, click here.
Becker's Healthcare aims to foster peer-to-peer conversation between healthcare's brightest leaders and thinkers. In that vein, responses to our Speaker Series are published straight from interviewees. Here is what our speakers had to say.
Question: What are your top priorities today?
JT: Rebuilding our team post the great resignation, aging accountable receivable, improving workflows and adding automation.
Q: How are you thinking about growth in the next two years?
JT: From a growth perspective, staying in lockstep with our operational leaders to ensure we have the talent, expertise and system to support the growth needed to support the communities we serve. My focus is around creating a strong financial clearance and counseling team, eliminating unnecessary duplicate work to improve turnaround time for payments and reduce denials.
Q: What are you most excited about for the future?
JT: I am most excited about AI; the more automation we have the more efficient we are with the staffing levels we have.