[2662] Achieving Efficiencies in Back Office Staffing & Structure
Education-Training Credits:
- 1.00 Hr(s) HCSSA Administrator/Alternate
Summary: How to measure & control back office costs.
HCSSA Topic(s) Addressed:
- §558.259[d][4]agency responsibilities
- §558.260[a][7]financial management
Faculty: Gaboury, Melinda
Program Description: Having and efficient back office that is accountable to key performance
metrics is a key component to financial wellbeing. As
an administrator, you are responsible for “implementing an
accounting and budgeting system that promotes the health and
safety of the agency’s clients” (TAC §558.243).
This program presents
the cost indicators that must be understood in making operational
decisions, items needed to develop billing performance
measures that hold the billing department accountable and detail
items to review in order to evaluate your back office structure.
Supervising nurses may also benefit from a working knowledge
of back-office processes to improve collaboration between billing
and clinical aspects of patient care. Presentation Date: 11.18.2014
Program Objectives: Upon completion of this program, the viewer will be able to:
- Identify the cost indicators that must be understood in making operational decisions regarding back office staff
- Develop billing department performance measures
- Detail items to review to evaluate back office structure
About the Presenter:
Melinda Gaboury, COS-C, is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Healthcare Provider Solutions, Inc.
(HPS). Melinda and Mark Cannon founded the company in April 2001 to provide financial, reimbursement, clinical
and cost reporting services to the home health industry. She has over 20 years’ experience in Medicare Home
Health Reimbursement and has remained on the cutting edge of Medicare PPS since the regulation’s inception.
She has helped her clients bridge the gap between clinical and financial issues and has been a seminar and
webcast presenter for 20+ State Home Care Associations. She is also the author of “Home Health Pocket Guide
to OASIS-C.”
[2662] Achieving Efficiencies in Back Office Staffing & Structure
