Lucas Smart

Hopefully, the Corona Virus Pandemic (CVP) is fading into our rearview mirror. However, with new variants unfurling, and other countries struggling to address those variants, this is a good time for introspection. As a Nation (our government and our people), collectively we did not respond to the CVP well; in fact, we botched the job. One reason we botched it is that we allowed the CVP to become a toxic, partisan polarizing issue (TPPI). That’s not necessarily an unpredictable outcome.

SPONSORED POST A new 2021 quantitative study was just concluded by AR, the Research Intelligence branch of Avira Insights. The conclusions are a must read. The medical billing and coding data points and revenue cycle trends revealed that hospitalist billing services fall into one of four tiers – and 95.2% are misrepresenting performance. Perception vs. reality The stakes are very real and very high. Even a 2-3% process performance efficiency improvement can have a 5-10% impact on revenue.