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    Craneware invites you to join the movement to prevent revenue leakage. Problems with pricing, charging, coding and other business processes can result in loss of legitimate reimbursement. By joining the movement, you’ll have opportunities to learn about solutions to these challenges and to share thoughts with your peers.

    Movement members can also elect to receive a free welcome packet with desktop Revenue Leakage sign and an exclusive paper, The Top 5 Sources of Hospital Revenue Leakage. So why not Join the movement today?

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    The Stop the Leakage blog is the place to go for discussions related to the many facets of preventing revenue leakage. Here, Craneware experts share their thoughts and report on industry trends… and encourage you join the conversation with your own unique experiences and opinions. Craneware client or not, there's something for everyone to learn and discuss.

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  • Read and Discover.

    Our white papers and case studies are great resources to learn about strategies, products and services that can prevent revenue leakage and increase reimbursement and efficiency while minimizing compliance risks. As a movement member, you have access to our expanding library of resources, so check back regularly for new materials.

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Downloadable Resource Library:

White Papers

  1. Ensuring Proper Reimbursement for Hospital-administered Drugs
    • Hospitals fail to secure millions of dollars in revenue due to absent, incomplete and incorrect pharmaceutical data in their billing systems. Based on recent research and case studies, this paper explores the problems underlying pharmacy-based revenue leakage and presents an effective, affordable solution.
  2. RAC Best Practices: Utilization Management
    • With limited resources, a community hospital identified and addressed sources of revenue leakage, identifying potential revenue opportunity of over $5 million.
  3. RAC Best Practices: Medical Record Preparation and Submission
    • RAC Best Practices: Medical Record Preparation and Submission
  4. Revenue Integrity in Healthcare
    • Read this insightful study and answer critical questions related to this approach, including:
      • What is revenue integrity?
      • What are the key benefits to achieving it?
      • What are the primary sources of revenue leakage?
  5. Supply Chain and Revenue Cycle Integration: Asset Management in U.S. Hospital Systems
    • This white paper is authored by the Health Sector Supply Chain Research Consortium, based at Arizona State University's W.P. Carey School of Business. Craneware underwrote the research.
  6. The Facts about Reimbursement for Self-administered Drugs
    • By William L. Malm, N.D., R.N.
      • How "self-administered" is defined by Medicare and Medicaid?
      • What constitutes a covered self-administered drug?
      • What revenue codes and HCPCS codes should be used in claims submission?

Case Studies

  1. Automating Management of the Chargemaster
    • Hospitals fail to secure millions of dollars in revenue due to absent, incomplete and incorrect pharmaceutical data in their billing systems. Based on recent research and case studies, this paper explores the problems underlying pharmacy-based revenue leakage and presents an effective, affordable solution.
  2. Connect Supply & Pharmaceutical Purchases with Billing
    • Even the best-organized hospitals have difficulty linking key pharmacy-spend data with the billing system. Read how a 235-bed hospital identified and corrected more than $1 million in annualized lost revenue due to incorrectly prorated billing of pharmaceutical charges.
  3. Improving Charge Capture, Billing and Reimbursement
    • As the most financially efficient hospitals in the U.S. have learned, automating chargemaster maintenance is central to assuring accurate and compliant revenue cycle processes.
  4. Simplify Patient Estimates, Support Transparent Pricing
    • Automating pricing processes and linking them closely to the chargemaster helps hospitals optimize reimbursement, compliance and productivity, improving financial performance.