Garrity C E
Beacon Partners, Inc., Norwell, Massachusetts, USA.
Healthc Financ Manage. 2001 Dec;55(12):66-71.
Group practices can reduce lost charges, denied claims, and time-to-billing rates by using automated charge capture at the point of service. One orthopedic department had been experiencing many process-related problems associated with physician charge capture. To improve revenues, the physicians began using hand-held devices to input data during patients' office visits. A 12-month analysis of charge data from the orthopedic physicians' outpatient visits using a paper-based charge process showed that 824 outpatient charges had been missed or lost, representing 6 percent of the department's annual outpatient activity and more than $54,000 in projected additional revenue. Another analysis conducted after the automated charge-capture process at the point of care was implemented showed that the orthopedic department had not missed any charges.
通过在服务点使用自动收费采集，集团医疗实践可以减少收费损失、索赔被拒以及计费时间率。一个骨科部门一直面临着许多与医生收费采集相关的流程问题。为了提高收入，医生们开始在患者门诊就诊期间使用手持设备输入数据。对骨科医生门诊就诊使用纸质收费流程的收费数据进行的为期12个月的分析表明，有824笔门诊收费被遗漏或丢失，占该部门年度门诊活动的6%，预计额外收入超过54,000美元。在实施了即时护理点自动收费采集流程后进行的另一项分析表明，骨科部门没有遗漏任何收费。
