Create an analysis report to assess an organization’s internal workflows from the context of improving cash flow and financial strength. If you need writing support, access the Online
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Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
1. Patient Registration: Analyze the significance of the steps in the operational workflow for registering a patient prior to a diagnostic procedure. Consider the following questions
to guide your response:
What is the significance of the patient financial responsibility agreement?
When should the provider present an advance beneficiary notification of noncoverage to the beneficiary?
2. Errors Impacting Cash Flow: Analyze the revenue-cycle errors that may occur in internal and external workflows that can impact a healthcare organization’s cash flow and
financial strength. Consider the following questions to guide your response:
What errors can occur that will impact revenue integrity?
How do these errors affect the organization’s cash flow?
3. Prevention of Errors: Explain how the errors you described can be prevented. Consider the following questions to guide your response:
What changes in the process will help prevent these errors?
What tools or systems can you use to prevent these errors?
4. Workflow Improvements: Recommend at least two workflow process improvements across the front-end, middle, and back-end revenue-cycle processes. These workflow
improvements must not be directly related to the error-prevention recommendations you provided. Consider the following questions to guide your response:
What improvements can you recommend for internal processes?
What improvements can you recommend for external processes?