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Cherry Jubilee Festival with our friends from Valor Health in Emmett, Idaho!

Networking at Montana HFMA with the experts from Availity.

One facility's approach to managing the cost of treating the downstream impacts of Type II Diabetes.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/05/08/526952657/fresh-food-by-prescription-this-health-care-firm-is-trimming-costs-and-waistline

Fresh Food By Prescription: This Health Care Firm Is Trimming Costs — And Waistlines The rising prevalence and cost of Type 2 diabetes has doctors at Geisinger Health System turning to food as a form of medicine. They're prescribing free, fresh food to low-income patients.

If March 8th snuck up on you and you need a quick path to adopting a Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice (MOON), the CMS website has a great template for both English and Spanish Speakers. https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-General-Information/BNI/index.html

(As a side note, we HAVE translated entire manuals using Google Translate if you have another nationality prevalent in your community).

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Celebrating 48 Days at Wheatland Memorial Healthcare with 48 cupcakes to share with everyone in the hospital. Congratulations to the billing experts at WMH on a tremendous milestone.

Somewhere over Central Montana near Forsyth

Check out our new, re-designed website which includes a resources page for all o your favorite billing "Cheat Sheets." Let us know what you think and what you'd like to see more of.

Happy Collecting!

Tips, Guides, and Resources We will use this page to share tips, quick reference guides, and resources we have developed with other facilities in the region to help streamline and optimize performance in areas such as Revenue Cycle Management.

We ran into the following theory on boosting retention almost by accident and found it too intriguing not to share. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3776418/

Everyday attention and lecture retention: the effects of time, fidgeting, and mind wandering We have all had our thoughts wander from the immediate task at hand. The emerging embodied cognition literature emphasizes the role that the body plays in human thought, and raises the possibility that changes in attentional focus may be associated with ...

We're proud to debut our youtube channel and the start of training videos to help new billing staff get up to speed. Turnover is one of the greatest challenges for the sustainability of Revenue Cycle optimization, quality time for training is hard to come by, and we believe even the uncertainty around the billing process seems so complex that it may chase off your next great employee. Our goal with the training videos is to give you material to augment the training process for new hires, demystify the process for potential recruits, and give everyone more quality tools to help understand and bill more efficiently. We'd appreciate your feedback. It's hard to make PHI compliant videos, but we ultimately envision public and private videos based on the complexity. Happy Collecting!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyj8HpxSwRYsHFZcOaH6e2w

Rural Health Partners LLC At Rural Health Partners we believe in unleashing the potential of your systems, people, and processes to help innovate healthcare delivery in your community...

A great reminder from our friends at Eide Bailly about the importance of timely Charge Master Updates. We're already seeing CCI edits in your claims payment gateways for these (Happy New Year). You should always consult your HIM department for the specific impact but we can point you to unofficial crosswalks if you're struggling to interpret the change.

https://www.eidebailly.com/industries/health-care/health-systems/cpt-updates-more-than-700-issued-for-2017/

CPT Updates: More Than 700 Issued for 2017 - Eide Bailly LLP It’s the time of year when changes are introduced to Current Procedural Terminology (CPT).

One of the things this election cycle has stressed is the importance of every vote regardless of who you'll vote for. If your patients are suddenly moved, Montana and Minnesota both have provisions for emergency absentee ballots but time is of the essence. https://www.vote.org/state/montana/

Montana Election Center - Vote.org Everything you need to vote in Montana: register to vote, check your registration status, get your absentee ballot.