Physicians today cite the administrative burden added to the work of patient care as the main reason for burnout. Chief among those administrative burdens was documenting in the electronic health record (EHR).
Read moreThe Problem: A leading health system in the Northeast came to Vee Healthtek with a problem: its quality of patient care was decreasing due to low provider engagement during pre-visit reviews. Conditions were overlooked and important contraindications were missed, exposing the health system to the risk of making serious but preventable errors during patient care.
Read moreThe Problem: Vee Healthtek was approached by a large hospital in the Northeast that was experiencing significant gaps in clinical documentation, which resulted in the under-capture of HCC conditions.
Read moreThe Problem: A large, multi-specialty medical group and health system on the West Coast was on the brink of a financial crisis due to its poorly managed accounts receivable process.
Read moreThe Problem: A world-class academic health system located in the Southeast decided to transition from its legacy electronic health record (EHR) to Epic for enhanced record-keeping.
Read moreThe Problem: Due to a significant staffing shortage, a 360-bed pediatric hospital located in the Midwest struggled to manage its accounts receivable cycle effectively. The situation led to a staggering backlog of $33 million in invoices that were over 180 days old. This backlog caused delayed reimbursement, disrupted cash flow, and placed immense pressure on the already overworked staff.
Read moreThe Problem: Vee Healthtek was approached by one of the largest hospitals in the Midwest, which was experiencing major revenue loss caused by improper clinical documentation. Due to documentation discrepancies involving high-impact diagnosis related groups (DRGs), the hospital had multi-million-dollar leakage.
Read moreThe Problem: A large health system with more than 30 hospitals was targeted in a major cyberattack, which led to a significant claims backlog. The accumulated claims amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars, including high-dollar facility charges.
Read moreA large healthcare analytics company needed to expand its HCC coding operations. At the time, Vee Healthtek was very experienced in many different coding disciplines but had no prior experience in HCC coding. We wanted the business, but weren’t sure if we should pursue it.
Read moreWe found a gap. We’re always hunting for opportunities to improve cash flow for our clients. One valued client, we’ll call Kurt, had a big one.
Read moreA large healthcare analytics client of Vee Healthtek had a problem. How could they provide quality assurance (“QA”) to hundreds of thousands of scanned images in a six-week period? It wasn’t feasible for the client to hire staff for such a short-term project or train temporary personnel because of concerns relating to quality and speed to market
Read moreThe current healthcare environment is creating one of the most active hospital and health system consolidations in history. Independent hospitals in particular have been caught up in the trend of consolidation.
Read moreThe Vee Healthtek coding team was tasked with identifying solutions to improve the delay in coding unbilled charts for a large hospital. The client was facing a financial crisis and had to significantly reduce staff.
Read moreLate in 2015, Vee Healthtek was approached by a new client having difficulty with their radiology coding system. They were depending on a computer-aided tool that did not adapt well to the type of radiology work being done, causing a three-month backlog.
Read moreA Vee Healthtek referral team was tasked with processing a large backlog of physician referrals for a large physician group in the U.S. Our client was experiencing long delays in processing physician referrals which led to a loss of patients, low patient satisfaction scores and ultimately, cash delays.
Read moreMost providers participating in risk adjusted contracts view risk adjustment optimization as a function of revenue enhancement. Most providers participating in risk adjusted contracts view risk adjustment optimization as a function of revenue enhancement.
Read moreThe maturity of an organization determines its scalability and operational agility to adjust to shifting reimbursement structures, specifically alternative payment models.
Read moreThe Challenge: Prohibitive labor cost and considerably higher turnaround time due to large number of manual adjudications resulting from mismatched information between enrollment data and provider data.
Read moreThe Challenge: A cost intensive update process that required checking all data on provider information update form rather than ones which were changed (typically only 40%).
Read moreScope: A major university-based health system wanted a thorough review of their documentation to see if it was supporting the level of care they are providing to the risk adjusted patient population.
Read moreClient Details: Our client is a major health system with multiple hospitals. Vee Technologies provides various services including Coding, Auditing, and RAC (Recovery Audit Contractor) review process for this client.
Read moreChallenges: Our client, a major university health system, was looking to optimize revenue. They had millions of dollars on hold as the claims hit the clearing house due to improper coding, POS and modifier issues, demographic mismatch etc.
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