Compliance officers are constantly reminding their hospital c-suite about dangers and red flags around every curve. Add to this the internal debates about whether it is better to insource or outsource a program, and the problem can seem overwhelming.
When you outsource outpatient programs like wound centers, you open yourself up to tremendous liability. A recent article in Becker’s Hospital Review mentioned that 500 hospitals were named in a lawsuit because of their outpatient management company. However, when the hospital decides to insource the program it will tax the current employees with an overwhelming amount of catching up and reinventing the wheel.
Often overlooked is the option of Rightsourcing your outpatient program. Rightsourcing allows you to maintain ownership of your wound care program with a team of experts by your side. It combines the ownership and control of insourcing with the expertise and support of outsourcing.
In the age of audits and lawsuits, hospital executives must ask themselves, how compliant is your wound center?
Wound Care Advantage has designed a system to keep your center compliant, defendable and safe. We built this option from the ground up to create a custom service based approach to wound center management for each hospital that we work with across the country. We are able to do this for three key reasons.
1. Daily Audits
Wound Care Advantage is the only company in the industry that performs daily compliance reviews. Our audit team reviews all clinical documentation to keep your center defendable. Our Luvo operating system allows us to deliver this information directly to the teams at the hospital that need access to that information. Daily documentation is crucial to keeping outpatient programs like wound centers compliant and in good standing.
2. KPI Checks
Key performance indicators help hospitals assess what their weak points are in the wound center.
These are important for discovering potential problems before they became hazards in the center. When physicians are not coding correctly and other risk factors appear we are able to send notifications to clinicians and administrators within Luvo to alert the team. Our dashboards were built to improve communication and provide protection to the hospital.
3. Flat Fee Contracts
We believe that by providing our hospital clients with flat fee contracts we are able to keep them safe and avoid unnecessary liability. We purposely do not bill our clients based on the amounts of procedures performed on patients because we believe this can open the door problems down the road. Instead we have always focused on providing the best hands on training and support possible to ensure that the wound center thrives.
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For more information on Rightsourcing and to download a free ebook about this topic visit http://www.thewca.com/compliant-wound-center-management
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