Solutions for Common Pain Points in the Pre-Pay DRG Review Process
Introduced in the 1980s, a DRG is a crucial component of today’s healthcare system. Most DRGs today are reviewed in a post-pay environment – providing challenges for both provider and payer alike. For the provider, the post-pay DRG review comes with considerable abrasion, often requiring service fees already collected to be returned to the payer […]
Moving to Prepay DRG Reviews
Let’s face it: the modern-day DRG review process is laborious, cumbersome, and quite often…exhausting. Every step from requesting the record to exchange, to preparing the document to review, and then notifying the provider of downgrades or changes takes time, effort, and valuable resources. Due to the time and resources required, most Prepay DRG Reviews occur […]
Moving DRG Into The Prepay Process: Record Exchange Challenge
So you’ve selected the DRGs that you want to review…now what? Next in the process is the record exchange. One of the biggest hurdles to moving DRG reviews into the prepay process is the actual record exchange between payer and provider. Traditionally, all too often, the amount of time required to execute the record exchange […]
Moving DRG Into The Prepay Process: The Importance of Claim Selection
To effectively move into DRG prepay process, it’s important for health plans to decide which claims they want to work and when. Workflow factors that ultimately determine the ability of a plan to manage the DRG prepay process, include but are not limited to: Number of staff to review claims Bandwidth of staff Number of […]
Why Expanding Into Outpatient IB Pre-Payment Makes Sense… and Money
Health plans are working harder than ever to avoid inaccurate claims payments upfront to minimize the cost and resources required to recover over-payments on the back end. Although pre-payment itemized bill review (IBR) is still in its infancy stages of mass adoption, it is proving to be an effective method of helping plans avoid post-payment […]
Shifting to Pre-Pay Itemized Bill Reviews
Payers and providers in the United States spend approximately $496 billion annually on billing and insurance-related costs (BIR). Another study by the National Academy of Medicine estimates that the U.S. spends about twice as much as is necessary on BIR costs. These high costs include claims submissions, billing, record keeping, and administrative costs for both […]