NAHRI’s top five stories of 2017

With your help, NAHRI thrived in 2017. We launched nahri.org and welcomed our first members in August 2017, allowing us to provide you with countless case studies and news stories on regulatory updates. 

In case you missed it, here are the stories that generated the most buzz on nahri.org in 2017:

1. Five steps for facilitating charge capture accuracy
   This case study offers a unique look into monitoring charge capture at Community Health Network in Indianapolis. Revenue Integrity Director Tina Rosier shares her five tips for facilitating revenue integrity, and discusses how technology has helped ease the burden of finding missing charges over the years.
    
2. HCPro launches the National Association of Healthcare Revenue Integrity
   Take a look back in time to our origins as an association and see how much we’ve grown. In this article, NAHRI Advisory Board Members Debbie Mackaman, RHIA, CPCO, CCDS, and Valerie Rinkle, MPA, along with NAHRI Director Andrea Kraynak, CPC, share their goals and excitement for NAHRI. Since launching in August, we have grown to an association with more than 450 members.   
    
3. 2018 OPPS final rule: CMS to cut 340B drug program payments by 22.5%, hospitals plan litigation
   In this news story, NAHRI Advisory Board Member Jugna Shah, MPH, shares her opinion on the implications of the 340B drug program and packaging drug administration services.
    
4. Predictive analytics for audits can help identify missing revenue
   Predictive analytics are a growing trend, but the jury’s still out on whether facilities fare better with in-house or third-party data analytics tools. This case study offers an inside look into how Standford Healthcare – ValleyCare in Dublin, California, is handling management of its claim review process. Learn how department charge CPT®/HCPCS codes are itemized and logged by Felicia Ziomek, MBA, BSN, CHFP, nurse auditor and CDM coordinator.
    
5. Health system seeks to define revenue integrity functions
   This case study analyzes the question on the minds of many healthcare professionals in 2017: How do we determine which tasks must fall to revenue integrity departments and which are best suited for other revenue cycle roles? Valerie Clark, MBA, CPC, CPCO, director of revenue integrity and compliance and privacy officer at SCL Health’s System Revenue Services Center in Broomfield, Colorado, shares how SCL operates from management to training to installing revenue integrity check-points into clinical department workflows.

If you have a topic you’d like to see covered in 2018 or a project you’d like to be interviewed about, email Associate Editor Molly Cohen at mcohen@hcpro.com. We look forward to hearing from you!