Mr. Childs shared the following tip during a webinar with Becker’s Hospital Review:
“Hospitals should review claims both midcycle and before the claim is sent to the payer to look for errors and make appropriate edits, according to Mr. Childs. He said edits should be very customizable to the payer, since each payer has different requirements and formatting preferences for claim forms. Oftentimes, a revenue cycle service provider can work with hospitals to build in these custom edits and author new rules based on learned payer behavior. This partner should also update payer rules frequently and before the effective date, according to Mr. Childs.
“He recommended reviewing edits on an annual basis to look for inefficiencies. ‘You can’t just build them and forget about them,’ he said. ‘You need to keep monitoring what those edits are doing for you.'”
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