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Lutz Announces Partnership with Bryan Health Connect
Lutz, a Nebraska-based business solutions firm, is excited to announce their preferred business partnership with Bryan Health Connect. Through this alliance, Lutz’s specialized accounting and healthcare consulting…
Benefits of Medicare Interim Cost Report Template for Critical Access Hospitals
The Medicare cost report has a material financial impact on Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs). Significant changes in hospital utilization, expense swings or changes in…
CPT Code Modifiers: Clarification of Commonly Used and COVID Updates
There are many circumstances when coding more than one Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code on the same encounter that clarification is needed regarding…
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HEALTHCARE | MEDICARE COST REPORT
This presentation, led by Kirk Delperdang and Julianne Kipple, discusses helpful tips to keep in mind as hospitals prepare and review their Medicare cost report. Kirk and Julianne specialize in accounting and reimbursement consulting for CAHs. This presentation also covers the cost report preparation process and review topics that can have a significant impact on Medicare reimbursement for the facility.
HEALTHCARE | REVENUE CYCLE
As Healthcare institutions, we hear a lot of talk surrounding the Revenue Cycle. This presentation, led by Amy Evanich and Claire Thelen, will discuss helpful hints to help ensure your revenue cycle is operating efficiently and effectively.
Every employee plays a role in the impact of the revenue cycle, and this webinar is tailored to cover each area. If there are inadequacies or an opportunity for improvement in the revenue cycle process in a certain department, please consider having the direct staff in this area listen in.
HEALTHCARE | FINANCIAL COMPLIANCE CHECK-UP
Now that winter is here, what better way to spend some additional time indoors than doing a winter healthcare financial compliance checkup. In this webinar, we take a step back and look at the overarching financial infrastructure vital to a facility’s long-term success and stability. Reviewing each major section of healthcare finance, we discuss key policies, internal controls, contracts, and other best practices to help organize the financial compliance aspects for healthcare providers.
HEALTHCARE | THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN FINANCIAL AND OPERATIONAL SUCCESS
Lutz partners with the Health Care Association of Nebraska (HCAN) to provide financial education to Primary Care Associations (PCA) in Nebraska, Nevada, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota and North Dakota through Finance Peer Learning Network webinar series. Please see the recorded webinar below on “The Intersection between Financial and Operational Success”, presented by Julianne Kipple and Cathy Bojanski with Lutz. This webinar discusses how Community Health Centers (CHCs) can help achieve operational and financial success through effective strategic planning, overcoming common operational issues, and how to measure/monitor those successes through benchmarking.
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LISTEN NOW!HEALTHCARE | EXTERNAL FINANCIAL STATEMENT AUDIT + MEDICARE COST REPORT BEST PRACTICES
The few months after a facilities’ fiscal year-end are always challenging. We have all been through the experience – at the time, we’ve all said “next year will be better” and “we will fix the bottlenecks”. Whether or not your facility has had success or not making progress in this area, this webinar will help create a checklist of ways to plan, prioritize, and complete items throughout the year and before the audit. In this presentation, Julianne Kipple and Chase Dudzinski discuss how to make the year-end process easier for your staff, more efficient for auditors and cost report preparers, and make your facility less prone to large audit adjustments and/or costly mistakes in reimbursements.
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PHYSICIAN'S COMPENSATION
As often as the healthcare world is changing, updating physician compensation agreements tends to be further down on the to-do list. Just how often is it necessary to evaluate and modify a physician compensation plan? Is your practice recruiting and retaining physicians by offering fair and competitive compensation? This webinar discusses how to examine your practice’s physician compensation plan, outline the various models of calculating and implementing physician compensation plans, and how to ensure the financial viability of the practice during this process. We also discuss how to align physician incentives and rewards while maintaining the core mission, vision, and values of the healthcare organization.
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HEALTHCARE | RURAL/CAH COVID-19 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW & ACCOUNTING UPDATE
The COVID-19 public health emergency has impacted the healthcare industry in numerous ways. All healthcare providers, including rural providers such as Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) and Rural Health Clinics (RHCs), have been on the forefront of battling the COVID-19 outbreak. In this complicated time, our goal is to provide an up-to-date overview of the various distributions/intent through the CARES Act and other COVID funding and to address common questions as to accounting and reporting requirements for these funds. In this presentation, Julianne Kipple and Paul Baumert discuss this topic and the potential impact for your organization.
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HEALTHCARE | KANSAS & NEBRASKA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER CFO VIRTUAL BOOTCAMP
The COVID-19 public health emergency has impacted the healthcare industry in numerous ways. All healthcare providers, including Community Health Centers (CHCs), have been on the forefront of battling the COVID-19 outbreak. Various programs have been established to help providers in their response. In this complicated time, our goal is to provide an overview of the Paycheck Protection Program, the various distributions through the CARES Act and other COVID funding to CHCs, along with strategies related to use of funds, including avoidance of double dipping. We also provide an accounting and audit update, overview of common frauds in the non-profit industry, telehealth billing, and financial fundamentals for a CFO. We also address common questions as to accounting and reporting requirements for these funds. Join Julianne Kipple, Amy Evanich, Mark DeDiana and Michael Greteman to learn more about this topic and the potential impact for your organization.
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