Webinars

Why is Our Employed Physician Practice Losing Money?

Do you fully understand what, why and how to find the gaps and uncover opportunities? In this 30-minute pre-recorded webinar, Rick Cater, President and CEO of Equation, explains the data-driven approach to optimizing the financial performance of a hospital's employed physician group.

• How to identify financial gaps within all 10 economic drivers of physician economics
• How to bridge the financial gaps to minimize loss
• What causes the financial disparity between your employed physician practice(s) and peer groups outside your health system

Advanced Rate Negotiation Tactics

Commercial payers possess vast amounts of data and sophisticated modeling programs to give them a tremendous advantage in any discussions regarding fee schedules.

The key to leveling the playing field is to have access to data. Now, imagine being able to apply that data to understand the financial impact of proposed rates in real time. Such a tool would create a tactical advantage that enables you to make confident decisions during the negotiations and not expend time and resource in between each proposal made by the payer. Watch this pre-recorded demonstration on how to use powerful analytic tools to drive better physician reimbursement rates.

• Quantify the value of the current contract in real time
• Model the value of the future contracts
• Access on-the-fly calculations for various contract proposals

Closing the Gap between Physician Alignment and Integration

Without integration, hospitals lack sufficient data to depict the true economic health of their organization, and make the critical decisions that will reduce cost, optimize revenue and improve quality of care. In this 9-minute pre-recorded presentation, Equation demonstrates how to use an integrated service line income statement to better manage the organization and answer critical questions such as

• What is the downstream revenue from these service admissions?
• What is the contribution by physician within the service line?
• What is the payer mix within a service line, by physician?
• How can costs be accurately allocated in service line income statement without a cost accounting system?

4 Ways to Avoid Costly Charge Capture Mistakes

In any hospital patient encounter, there is the potential for initiating Part A billing while failing to follow through with Part B, and vice versa. As a result, hospitals may unknowingly miss out on thousands and even millions of dollars in billing.

In this 13 minute pre-recorded webinar, discover the four steps to uncovering the mismatched billing between a hospital and its physician practices.

• Learn how to correlate Part A and Part B billing
• Understand the financial impact of mismatched billing
• Discover the results of this methodology applied to a large health system

Real Time Decision Support

Getting access to reliable business intelligence is critical for making sound decisions. The problem is accessing data in a timely fashion and making practical sense out of it. During this 9-minute presentation, you will learn:

• What are the most common barriers to accessing data
• How to access digetstible business intelligence in real time
• The key elements to create an ideal Business Intelligence System for decision support

Provider Based: Live Q&A with Cheryl Waltko

This 30-minute recording is a Q&A session where Cheryl Waltko shares additional insight regarding provider-based compliance issues.

Provider Based: Avoiding a Costly Compliance Mistake

Failure to comply can result in thousands and even millions of dollars in fines. Learn what you need to know to stay compliant and avoid a reimbursement disaster. In this 30-minute pre-recorded webinar, Cheryl Waltko, Vice President of Equation, will walk you through the following:

• What it means to be truly integrated under CMS rules
• What are the consequences of non-compliance
• How to ensure compliance