Peter Angerhofer, a principal at Colburn Hill Group, an RCM operational solutions firm: Don’t think of a benchmark as the ultimate measure of your revenue cycle performance — often they are set at the 75th percentile, meaning plenty of people are doing far better. Benchmarks are fine as a yardstick, but they should be a starting point, not an end point. Seek out the barriers which limit organizational performance and address them head on. Don’t accept the standard … set the standard.
To learn more about hospital benchmarks, access this story from Becker’s Hospital Review.
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