by Christopher Baggot | Sep 25, 2018 | Audits, Blog, Claims, DRG Validation, Hospital Audits, RAC Audits, Revenue Cycle
Containing clinical costs in a safe manner in hospitals is crucial in the new value-based era of care. Reducing patient lengths of stay has been one of the main targets for clinical cost containment in hospitals. One-way hospitals can contain costs is by implementing...
by Christopher Baggot | Sep 13, 2018 | Aetna, Audits, Blog, CCMA, Medicaid, RAC Audits
The Medical Audit Common Reviews and their Risk The Healthcare Industry (both Payers and Providers) has always had a measure of audits and their “ripple effect” carries down the line whether it be workload i.e. record retrieval, desk auditing, refund request, data...
by Christopher Baggot | Apr 7, 2017 | Audits, Blog
In my recent article “your audit losses begin in medical records” I discussed the role of the release of information officer in the dramatic impact that they can have upon audit losses. In this series we want to more deeply delve into how to consolidate your audit...
by Christopher Baggot | Mar 15, 2017 | Audits, Blog
Your Audit Losses – Step One Of all the sites I’ve ever consulted for there is always the same pattern and posture with auditing. Some are better than others but all have divided the audit losses into generally three categories. 1. Business Office Denials 2....
by Christopher Baggot | Jun 14, 2016 | Audits, Blog
Thanks to Report on Medicare Compliance for permission to reprint this article. Recently Christopher Baggott, CEO of Medlinks Cost Containment, Inc. and Medlinks Staffing LLC. was interviewed by the Report on Medicare Compliance on the issue of medical audits. Our...