Beyond Volume: The Revenue Cycle Metrics Physician Group Leaders Should Watch...
By Lisa Krueger Many physician group leaders judge the month the way their bank account reports it: cash came in, cash went out, and this month was lighter than last. For physicians who built a group...
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MIPS After 2028: What the Proposed Changes Mean for Hospitalist Groups
Blog Summary The CY 2027 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule would end traditional MIPS after the 2028 performance period, making MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs) the only MIPS reporting option for...
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What Four Recent Implementations Taught Us About Going Live Faster
Blog Summary Every implementation teaches you something. We recently took stock of lessons learned across four implementations — spanning an independent community hospital, a large Midwest health...
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Your Hospitalists Are Doing Software’s Job at 4 A.M
Blog Summary An advanced practice clinician at a Midwest hospital with a hospital medicine census around 200 was asked to build the morning patient assignment at 4 AM while the usual list-builder was...
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Fewer Names on Every Patient’s Care Team: What a High-Quality Assignment is...
Blog Summary A hospitalist program director whose team already built its morning patient assignment in about 30 minutes came looking for software anyway. What he wanted was not a faster list but a...
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Your Access Center Is Running Throughput on a Borrowed Tool
Blog Summary Hospital medicine access centers running ED-to-inpatient distribution out of a repurposed transfer center module and a manually maintained spreadsheet are working with tools that were...
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The Case for Not Pausing Software Implementations while you’re undergoing an...
Blog Summary Healthcare organizations planning an EHR migration typically pause all other software implementations until after the EHR is live. What if you didn’t? This article explores that instead,...
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How to Build the Business Case Your CFO Will Sign Off On
Blog Summary A business case for hospital medicine operations software gets CFO approval when it translates fragmented workflows into a dollar figure, shows a payback period inside the timeline...
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Questions to Ask Before You Buy Hospital Medicine Software
Blog Summary A hospital medicine operations software buying committee gets the most out of a vendor evaluation when each stakeholder asks the question that matches their job function instead of...
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How to Stop Manual Claim Handling from Driving Up Your Denial Rate
Blog Summary Claim denials have many causes, including eligibility gaps, prior authorization failures, credentialing mismatches, and payer-specific coverage rules. This article focuses on one specific...
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Better Revenue Cycle Management: How to Integrate Charge Capture with...
Blog Summary Athenahealth (athenaOne) is a widely used EHR and billing platform. Many healthcare organizations choose to extend it with a dedicated charge capture solution — such as medaptus Charge...
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How to Stop Manual Claim Handling from Driving Up Your Denial Rate
Blog Summary Claim denials have many causes, including eligibility gaps, prior authorization failures, credentialing mismatches, and payer-specific coverage rules. This article focuses on one specific...
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The Documentation Is Accurate. So Why Is the Claim Getting Denied?
Blog Summary A medical necessity denial occurs when the diagnosis submitted on a claim does not support the procedure billed, meaning the clinical reason for the visit does not justify the service...
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Hospital Medicine vs Bed Management: Where Coordination Breaks Down
Blog Summary Hospital medicine and bed management teams share the same goal, getting patients into the right bed and out the door safely, but they often work from different information and different...
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The Operational Case for Investing in Hospital Medicine Software
Blog Summary 41.9% of physicians nationally are reporting burnout, and manual patient assignment and disconnected census tracking are a direct contributor (AMA). This is an expensive issue because...
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Why Hospitalist Handoffs Break Down And How To Fix It
Blog Summary Hospitalist handoffs break down when critical patient information is shared through fragmented tools. The disconnected process makes it easier to miss new admissions, overnight clinical...
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Why Your Go-Live Isn’t Done When You Go Live
Blog Summary A successful hospital patient assignment software implementation depends on organizational readiness. Hospitals that assign IT resources early, observe existing workflows before...
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How Manual Hospital Medicine Workflows Hurt Patient Flow
Blog Summary Manual hospital medicine workflows hurt patient flow by relying on disconnected tools like phone calls, whiteboards, spreadsheets, and manual handoffs to communicate critical patient...
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How Do Physician Groups Make Sure They’re Collecting Everything They’re Owed?
Blog Summary Physician groups lose revenue at three predictable points: incomplete charge capture, claim denials that age without action, and patient balances that never get followed up on. This post...
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Why Epic Alone Doesn’t Solve Hospital Medicine Operations
Blog Summary Epic is one of the most widely implemented EHR platforms in the country, and for good reason. It centralizes patient data, documentation, and ordering in a way that genuinely changes how...
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