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Monitor and report on provider total compensation, time/activities, and potential conflicts of interest. Healthcare contracting is risky business. Contracts must comply with state, federal, and accrediting body regulations to prevent costly penalties. Provider ...
Ensure that your supplier relationships are not working against you.
Personal relationships with healthcare vendors can unduly influence purchasing decisions and prevent you from getting the best prices and contract terms for capital equipment, med-surg supplies, ...
Establish delegated health plan contracts to streamline and accelerate enrollment.
Provider enrollment has a significant impact on your healthcare organization’s revenue cycle. When healthcare providers are not enrolled properly with one or more health plans, or ...
10, 9, 8, 7… Countdown to savings.Saving money is one of the most popular personal New Year’s resolutions—right up there with exercising more. Saving money is also an important goal for healthcare organizations, particularly at a time when many hospitals are ...
Starting January 1, 2021, Open Payments Program reporting requirements apply to physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse-midwives, and certified registered nurse anesthetists.
Starting January 1, 2021, physicians aren’t
Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law violations lead to fines, prison time, and exclusion from Medicare and Medicaid programs.You don’t want to see your healthcare organization appearing in headlines for compliance violations.
The Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, ...
Implement an effective compliance program, including regular compliance monitoring.
The Office of Inspector General's (OIG) Corporate Integrity Agreement list is one list you don’t want your healthcare organization—or any of its providers—to appear on. A corporate ...
The year 2020 has dealt a brutal blow to the financial health of healthcare organizations in the United States, many of which were already under enormous financial pressure as they struggled with trends such as heightened consumer demand, transitions to value-based
Ignore porous contracts at your own peril.Contracts significantly impact your health system’s administrative operations and bottom line. Healthcare contracting involves more than procuring the right personnel, equipment, supplies, and services necessary for patient
Our mission at TractManager is to optimize the business of healthcare. With our solutions, we support those “unsung heroes” who work behind the scenes to keep healthcare organizations running smoothly. These are the folks whose tireless efforts in maintaining ...
Track provider time and activities to prevent Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law violations.Are you paying attention to your provider compensation arrangements? The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is. In its Fraud Alert—Physician Compensation Arrangements ...
At TractManager, we’re focused on optimizing the business of healthcare. As part of our mission we want to honor and thank the “unsung heroes” of healthcare—the folks who work behind the scenes to keep healthcare organizations up and running. These are the people ...
Ways to improve ineffective policies and broken processes.Despite increased emphasis on patient outcomes and safety, medical errors in hospitals and clinics are a leading cause of death in the United States, resulting in approximately 100,000 deaths each year. To ...
Our mission at TractManager is to optimize the business of healthcare and to support those “unsung heroes” who work behind the scenes to keep healthcare organizations running smoothly. These are the folks whose tireless efforts in maintaining day-to-day operations ...
As healthcare systems continue to become more complex, they face intense cost pressures.Contracts are legally binding agreements between two entities that outline the agreed-upon services, reimbursement arrangements, and legal considerations within the healthcare ...
At TractManager, we’re focused on optimizing the business of healthcare. As part of our mission we want to honor and thank the “unsung heroes” of healthcare—the folks who work behind the scenes to keep healthcare organizations up and running. These are the people ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll on healthcare organizations’ financial health. In the first eight months of 2020, hospital operating margins were down 89% compared to the first eight months of 2019. The pandemic has also significantly impacted patient care
Provider onboarding starts with the provider contract. Executing a provider contract—which must comply with federal and state regulations—is more complicated than signing contracts with vendors to purchase gloves or catheters.
Every provider contract includes a ...
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