A large, SE based not-for-profit hospital system has selected Harpeth Consulting to stand up an underpayment recovery business unit and manage it until the system decides to bring the unit in-house. The goal of the project is to collect underpays from large, 3rd party payers, leveraging a recently implemented contract management system.
Posted on October, 29 2013.
Harpeth Consulting has been engaged to assist in determining future strategic options for a Skilled Nursing Facility owned by a large, Level 1 Trauma Center located in the SE. Strategic options may range from business process improvement and organic growth to joint venture, acquisition, or divestiture.
Posted on October, 29 2013.
A large, not-for-profit, multi-site hospital system located in the SE has engaged Harpeth Consulting to implement a recently acquired contract management system. Tasks include project management, contract loading, contract auditing, testing, and go-live assistance.
Posted on October, 29 2013.
A large, SE based not-for-profit hospital system has outsourced all 3rd party payer contract modelling to Harpeth Consulting. Harpeth will leverage a recently implemented contract management system to perform all modelling activity.
Posted on October, 29 2013.
A NE based not-for-profit hospital system (3 hospitals) selected Harpeth Consulting to model the impact of making specific contract language changes. The goal of the project is to determine whether revising non-standard contract language might have a significant financial impact.
Posted on October, 29 2013.
A SE based not-for-profit health system (hospitals, ancillaries, and physicians) has outsourced 3rd party payer contract negotiations to Harpeth Consulting's team of experienced contract negotiators.
Posted on October, 29 2013.
One of the nation's largest home care companies has selected Harpeth Consulting to lead program development resulting in approval of certificate of need application.
Posted on March 12, 2012.
Large, multi-state hospital system in the southeast selects Harpeth Consulting to provide project management oversight and systems implementation assistance for managed care technology.
Posted on March 2, 2012.
Harpeth Consulting chosen by one of the nation's largest not-for-profit hospital systems to provide project management oversight for the implementation of two managed care software technologies.
Posted on December 22, 2011.
Large dental provider located in the Southeast chooses Harpeth Consulting to conduct an assessment of the revenue cycle.
Posted on December 22, 2011.
Large not-for-profit hospital system chooses Harpeth Consulting to assist in the selection of managed care technology. The project will include an assessment of the current state, determination of current and future business needs and identification of commercial off the shelf technology that will help the hospital system meet the desired future state.
Posted on November 2, 2011.
Enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was a historic event. Along with the Recovery Act, the ACA will usher in the most extensive changes in the U.S. health care system since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid. Under this law, the next few years will be a period of what economists call “creative destruction”: our fragmented, fee-for-service health care delivery system will be transformed into a higher-quality, higher-productivity system with strong incentives for efficient, coordinated care. Consequently, the actions of physicians and hospitals during this period will determine the structure of the delivery system for many years. The implications will be profound for hospitals’ dominant role in the health care system and for physicians’ income, autonomy, and work environments...
[read entire article in the NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL of MEDICINE]
Posted on July 15, 2011.
Harpeth Consulting, LLC has been chosen to conduct a managed care technology assessment and contract review for an internationally recognized specialty hospital located in the northeast. Harpeth will assess the current managed care technologies and key managed care agreements to be followed by recommendations for improvement.
Posted on July 8, 2011.