Page 1 of 9 Subscribe Share Past Issues Translate RSS SD HFMA Sponsorship THANK YOU, May 2015 Welcome to the Quill Exchange. To learn more about the Quill Exchange's namesake, Georgia Quill, click here. View this email in your browser Forward
Page 2 of 9 Thank you from your President Rita Blasius The SDHFMA Chapter is completing an awesome year of learning and relationship building! We want to extend a huge Thank you to our sponsors for being actively involved in our programs and of course for the financial support that they have given to the Chapter. The quality of our education and the extra ordinary networking events that we include with our meetings is made possible by the gracious generosity of these sponsors!! As most of you are aware, we provide four levels of sponsorship opportunity for potential sponsors. We welcome any thoughts or ideas that you have to make sure that you, our sponsors, have opportunities to meet and network with our SDHFMA members. We want you to find value in the financial commitment that you make to this organization. This newsletter is designed to recognize and highlight the excellent organizations that annually support the South Dakota Chapter. We want to recognize all of our sponsors and we offer added recognition to the highest sponsorship level, which is the Platinum Level. We thank you very much for your support in 2015 and the years prior. We hope that you will consider being a sponsor again for 2016. Thank You, Rita Blasius, SDHFMA President Platinum Sponsors 2014-2015 Avera Health and Avera Health Plans are a regional partnership of health professionals at 300+ locations in 100
Page 3 of 9 communities in eastern South Dakota and the surrounding states. Avera is comprised of more than 1,200 medical providers and 15,000 employees. Avera Health Plans provider network for our members consists of 92 hospitals which includes Avera s 33 hospitals and 208 clinics, as well as long-term care and senior living facilities, home medical equipment outlets, fitness and sports training centers, hospice facilities and more. Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center is a 545-bed tertiary facility, recognized for excellence in cancer, behavioral health, emergency and trauma care, critical care, orthopedics, pediatrics and neonatology, rehabilitation, solid organ and bone marrow transplant, neurosciences and women s health care. Learn more at www.avera.org or www.averahealthplans.com. Casey Peterson & Associates, LTD is a full-service CPA and consulting firm dedicated to helping businesses and individuals in the Dakotas, Wyoming, and Nebraska. We have a healthcare team dedicated to providing a variety of services to our healthcare clients. This expertise is displayed through being a local leader in providing trusted audit, accounting, consulting and tax services to a variety of these organizations, including physician practices, medical clinics, critical access hospitals, continuing care retirement communities, long-term care facilities, and various other healthcare related organizations. Learn more about our healthcare menu of services at www.caseypeterson.com/industries/healthcare. Credit Collections Bureau was established in 1987. CCB currently has over 100 employees, and has offices in Rapid City, Sioux Falls, Bismarck and Fargo. CCB has national agency size that produces locally expected recoveries. CCB offers standard 3 rd party collection services as well as 1 st party early out collections services. CCB s Strategic Mission is to utilize Amicable Recovery Techniques (SMART Collections) to best recover the dollars owed to you!
Page 4 of 9 Eide Bailly is a CPA and Business Advisory firm with a national health care practice. Our dedicated health care team of 30 partners and 180 professionals has walked in your shoes and understands the demands you face on a day-today basis. We bring our clients solutions that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their organization. And, we don t just focus on the numbers; we consider the people factor, too. From finance to patient access, strategy to implementation, business offices to HIM, we approach health care with innovative, actionable insights and strategies that get results. Our professionals specialize in reimbursement modeling, chargemaster, operational assessments, feasibility studies, debt capacity studies, due diligence, affiliation strategies, physician compensation and IT security. Have a question? We d love to hear from you. Please contact Brian Bertsch at bbertsch@eidebailly.com or 605.977.2722. eprovider Solutions is a claims clearinghouse like no other. Their goal is to provide a single and trust-worthy source for providers to meet their varied practice management needs. eprovider Solutions helps organizations of all sizes
Page 5 of 9 identify issues and find resolutions through consulting, training, research, software, services, and support. They have earned an excellent reputation nationally because of their dedication to character and customer support. eprovider Solutions invests in cutting edge technology to offer healthcare organizations tools that are simple, efficient and robust. Their tools and price points are scalable to any size healthcare organization, from a single provider family practice office to large multi-hospital health systems. In addition, to keep up with the constant changes in healthcare, they provide free updates for all their tools and solutions. This means there is no cost to update to a new ANSI version or to meet a payer s changing requirements. www.eprovidersolutions.com At McGladrey, the fifth largest accounting, tax, and business consulting firm in the United States, we are committed to serving clients in all sectors of the health care industry. In addition to assurance and tax planning, we provide business consulting services such as revenue performance improvement, information technology, operational and strategic consulting, third-party reimbursement and regulatory services, cost report preparation, risk management, ICD-10 transition, valuation services, and merger and acquisition integration and optimization. We work with more than 3,000 health care institutions around the country. To learn more about our comprehensive, coordinated and cost-effective solutions, visit www.mcgladrey.com/healthcare. At The Midland Group, our Mission is to help hospitals manage hospital revenue and relationships with self-pay patients and to increase access to health care for low-income individuals. In partnership with contracting hospitals, we accomplish this mission by helping them maximize self-pay and third-party cash flow through a variety of unique services. For more information please go to http://www.midlandgroup.com/.
Page 6 of 9 Regional Health is an integrated health care system of more than 40 entities, working together for the purpose of helping our patients and communities life well. Regional Health is the largest health care provider in western South Dakota and provides a continuum of care through its hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and assisted living facilities. In addition to those, Regional Health also includes the Regional Cancer Care Institute, Regional Rehabilitation Institute, Regional Behavioral Health Center, Rapid City Regional Hospital Auxiliary Hospice House, Spearfish Regional Surgery Center and other health care services, all serving communities in western South Dakota. Rycan, an industry leader in healthcare revenue cycle software, has built its reputation by providing bestof-breed solutions encompassed by a level of customer support that is unparalleled in the healthcare industry. Rycan empowers providers to accelerate their revenue cycle through a suite of comprehensive, webbased solutions, designed to improve productivity and increase reimbursement. Patient Liability Estimates - Improve patient satisfaction, maximize point-of-service collections, and equip your staff with the ability to provide transparent pricing with our PLE module. Eligibility Verification - Rycan s Eligibility Verification module allows you to reduce claim denials and carrier rejections by performing on-demand eligibility look-ups, assuring the care you provide is covered. Claim Scrubbing and Submission - Our Claim Scrubbing and Submission modules combine to produce a powerful claim management solution for submitting, validating, and processing your healthcare facility s claims with ease. Remittance Management - Remittance advice can be effortlessly gathered and managed with our ERA Retrieval and Remittance Management modules, simplifying workflow and involvement. Denial/Audit Management - Rycan s Denial & Audit Management module equip your facility with the tools necessary to combat denied and audited claims, assisting your organization in recovering lost revenue.
Page 7 of 9 Contract Management - Take control over your complex healthcare contracts by prospectively pricing every claim submitted to payers, retrospectively pricing every remittance to ensure proper payment was received, and modeling proposed contract terms during payer negotiations. Reporting and Data-Mining - Bring together all of your facility s revenue cycle data and gain a better understanding of your financial health by analyzing reports and utilizing our interactive, drillin graphs. Together, Rycan s solutions work seamlessly to provide a thorough, yet streamlined process for your staff. Exceptional service and cutting edge, customer-focused solutions position Rycan above the competition. Our team works with enthusiasm and integrity to continually put our customers first, providing facility-specific support and up-to-date enhancements. From critical access hospitals to large health systems, our customer-driven approach ensures a solution that is tailored to your organization s unique needs. Rycan s innovative software has assisted healthcare facilities with increasing revenue, streamlining workflow, and solving real-world business office problems for over twenty-five years. Contact us today to see why at Rycan, We have a Better Solution. Sanford Health is an integrated health system headquartered in the Dakotas and is now the largest, rural, not-for-profit health care system in the nation with locations in 126 communities in nine states. In addition, Sanford Health is in the process of developing international clinics in Ghana, Israel, Mexico and China. Sanford Health includes 39 hospitals, 140 clinic locations and 1,360 physicians in 81 specialty areas of medicine. With more than 26,000 employees, Sanford Health is the largest employer in North and South Dakota. The system is experiencing dynamic growth and development in conjunction with nearly a billion dollars in gifts from philanthropist Denny Sanford. These gifts are making possible the implementation of several initiatives including global children's clinics, multiple research centers and finding cures for type 1 diabetes and breast cancer. For more information, please visit sanfordhealth.org.
Page 8 of 9 Xtend Healthcare is one of the fastest growing revenue cycle solution companies in the industry, offering 100 percent onshore solutions. Our senior management team has more than three decades of dedicated hospital revenue cycle experience with hundreds of hospitals and hospital systems. Xtend Healthcare clients range from large teaching hospitals and urban medical centers to rural critical access hospitals. We have experience working with large nonprofit and religious-affiliated hospital systems as well as the largest for-profit healthcare systems. Xtend Healthcare offers cutting-edge technology, experienced staff, and 100 percent customer satisfaction. Xtend has the ability to place full teams of experienced billing and collection personnel on site with expert consultants in all revenue cycle areas including patient access, business office, self-pay management, HIM, and IT systems relating to revenue cycle. The result is immediate cash acceleration and accounts receivable resolution combined with long-term revenue cycle improvement through best practices. Gold Sponsors AAA Collections DAKOTACARE Kaufman Hall Wellmark BCBS Silver Sponsors Avadyne Hauge Associates, Inc ProAssurance Bronze Sponsors Accounts Management, Inc Compliancy Guard
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