In the race to get paid on time and stay ahead of a growing pile of denied claims, it’s easy to lose sight of how important it is to track key clinic KPIs. Every medical clinic is unique, but many clinics share the same operational problems, like working to reduce the number of days that invoices spend in Accounts Receivable. HealthCo helps our clients in clinics determine which KPIs are essential to track and how best to track them.
Once you establish or improve your in-clinic KPI tracking routines, you’ll be on your way to improved financial performance.
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Kpi webinar deck 11 2016 final
1. 2016 Webinar Series:
5 KPI’s for Financial Success
To listen to the audio on this webinar, please click on the link below:
https://healthcois.webex.com/healthcois/lsr.php?RCID=73fb0eec478d4ac1b75ede603e353351
6. Measurement = Success
Setting KPI’s
Select KPI’s that have a
clear tie to strategic
business initiatives
Ensure your team has
control over the KPI’s
selected
Use simple, easy to
understand KPI’s that will
make sense to your team
Make sure your KPI’s
cannot be manipulated
by the team…they need
to be credible
Guidelines
7. Measurement = Success
Days In AR AR by Day
Adjusted
Collection
Rate
Schedule
Maximization
Claim Denial
Rate
KPI Categories
8. Measurement
= Success
KPI
•Days In AR
Definition
• Average number of days it takes
• your clinic to get paid
Target*
• 38 Days
Measure
• Divide your current receivables, net of credits,
• by your average daily charge amount
*MGMA National Best Practice Standard
10. How Do We Improve?
Set your goal and measure!
Monitor claim submission timing; daily is the best practice
Identify problem carriers that take more time than your average to pay
• Provide action list to staff with narrow group of high impact payers
Utilize your billing system to monitor unbilled or missing charges; visit status is one way
to monitor this
Prioritize staff activity and workplans
• Centricity Task Management provides a tool for this
11. Days In AR
Measurement
= Success
KPI
•AR By Day
Definition
• The amount of receivables viewed by days
• outstanding (0-30, 31-60, etc.)
Target*
• 0-30: 57% 31-60: 12%
• 61-90: 7% 90+: 24%
Measure
• Divide your current receivables in each aging
• bucket by total receivables and multiply by 100
*MGMA National Best Practice Standard
13. How Do We Improve?
Set your goal and measure!
Set payment plans with patients if you are unable to collect in full up front
Break out of the “statement habit” by suggesting credit card payment
Focus on carrier response to claims and if they fall outside 30 day response window
Prioritize staff work by dollar amount and aging bucket to target highest
impact claims first; focus your time on your best return
14. Days In AR
Measurement
= Success
KPI
•Adjusted Collection Rate
Definition
• % total available reimbursement collected
Target
• 95%+
Measure
• Divide payments, net of credits, by allowable
• charges submitted, multiply by 100
16. How Do We Improve?
Set Goals and Measure!
Know your allowable amounts!
Challenge your payors if you see reimbursement below cost;
if you don’t manage this you are at the payors mercy
Monitor your payments through reporting to show the variance between
contract rates and receivables
Empower your billers to challenge a payment amount
17. Days In AR
Measurement
= Success
KPI
•Schedule Maximization
Definition
• % of available schedule slots filled with billable
• visits
Target
• Internal target required
Measure
• Divide filled visit slots on schedule by total
• available for review period (day, week, month)
*MGMA National Best Practice Standard
19. How Do We Improve?
Set Goals and Measure!
Utilize a “recall feature” to get patients back in for services that are overdue
Establish a protocol in your clinic on offering first available appointments
Use a wait list to fill in for cancelled visits
Track no-show rates and re-offenders in your clinic
Consider a cancellation/no-show policy
20. Days In AR
Measurement
= Success
KPI
•Denied Claim Rate
Definition
• % of claims submitted that have been denied by
• payers
Target
• 5% or less
Measure
• Divide denied claims amount by total
• receivables, multiply by 100
*MGMA National Best Practice Standard
22. How Do We Improve?
Set Goals and Measure!
Understand the reasons for your denials
Track denial reasons with product like Denials IQ
Utilize claim scrubber to claims out the door clean the first time
Use the data on denials to train staff and keep from repeating the same mistakes
Enable communication between teams working denials and front end billing
23. KPI Tracking Poster
To request a free clinic KPI poster: http://www.healthcosystems.com/go/kpi-poster/
The payment cycle for clinics has expanded dramatically with the advent of ACA, broader insurance coverage, high deductible programs and as the insurance claim process becomes more and more complex. The goal for today’s session is to provide you with valuable best practices that you can take away and use in your clinic to improve the speed of this process. As more steps come into play, the likelihood of your process slowing is tremendous.
Create an initiative / if you don’t focus and communicate you won’t see improvement long term. To be effective, KPI’s should be:
In alignment with org goals and objectives
Clearly communicated and displayed in your clinic
Simple and easy to understand
Impactful on your business
There are plenty of KPI’s out there and many of you are already measuring some, if not all of these. We wanted to bring you a starter set. Our team of experts worked together to build a list of meaningful financial KPI’s that if measured and improved will bring your clinic stronger financial results and stronger business process.
Pick one…focus….build an initiative….knock one down to goal and then move on to another.
It’s important to track and keep your KPI’s front of mind for you and your team. In that spirit, HealthCo has developed a compact KPI poster for your clinics. These will be available to everyone that has attended today’s webinar.
Look for our follow up email with the slides from today’s session along with a link to request your poster. We will mail these out to each of you to use in your practices.
We hope you embrace a KPI culture and drive better results in the process!