803 - Take the Mystery Out of Charge Forwarding (MEDITECH Expanse Acute/Ambulatory)
Instructor: Sheryl Easter
Organization: Nordic
Are your Ambulatory/Acute teams faced with challenges related to charge forwarding and is the set-up and decision making a mystery? Whether you are in the process of implementing or thinking about implementing, this workshop will help you with the next steps. Maybe you are already LIVE with Charge Forwarding and just want to lea to improve some of the workflows/build within your system. Then this is the workshop for you!
Healthcare leaders continue to face increasing pressures and in recent years, system functionality has been enhanced to improve the patient experience, create a single record between providers, clinics, and hospitals, and reduce repetitive data capturing. But, in some cases, if not optimally implemented can increase workarounds.
In this workshop, we will provide tools and guidance to assist in improving your current MEDITECH Expanse workflow/build to help with decisions you are faced with implementing new functionality related to Charge Forwarding.
Learning objectives:
- Gain knowledge of the Charge Forwarding workflows and set-up to enhance optimized build.
- Obtain tools to efficiently design/plan/optimize the Charge Forwarding functionality.
- • Understand the dictionary dependencies and optimal build components for a fully integrated process.
Instructor: Sheryl Easter
Sheryl Easter is a Principal Consultant with Nordic Global Consulting supporting both US and international organizations. She has over 35 years’ experience working closely with healthcare organizations to help improve their Revenue Cycle and Financial Processes, resulting in increased revenue and decreased avoidable write-offs for the facilities.
Sheryl has functioned in various roles including Managing Director-Revenue Cycle & Finance, Project Manager, Senior Management Consultant, and Senior Financial Analyst working in the areas of Patient Financial Services, Patient Access, Scheduling, Materials Management, Authorization/Referral Management, Health Information Management, Abstracting, Payroll, and General Financials. Education has been a key motivator, and after achieving a master’s degree (MBA/HCM) with a large focus on healthcare, became and educator focusing on healthcare regulations, optimizations, changes, and revenue cycle.