Celebrate Age-3 Life Lessons

Grandma and Aunts

We had a booth at the LeadingAge 50th Annual Meeting and Exposition in October, where the theme for the year was Celebrate Age.  We love the theme and agree completely.

The 3 afternoons of the exposition were wonderfully busy.  We all enjoyed meeting new people and seeing friends, clients and acquaintances.  It is always fun to be spreading the good word about SNF Solutions and how we help Skilled Nursing Facilities with their Accounts Receivable challenges.  The best icebreaker we’ve ever had in our booth was a little display I put together to show what Celebrate Age means to me.

First Aid for Receivables: Interpret the Aging Report [2 of 3]

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“My Business Office Manger keeps telling me that everything is great, but how can I tell for myself?”

Administrators: How To Help Your Business Office EXCEL!

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On top of all of their other duties, the Nursing Home Administrator of a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) can do quite a bit to help ensure their Business Office’s billing and accounts receivable (A/R) success.  Of course they involve working with the Business Office Manager and the business office staff, as well as providing operational…

Medicaid Pending admits don’t have to be painful

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For many facilities, Medicaid Pending admissions that either take too long to get approved, or never get approved at all, are their largest collections problems and lead to their largest write offs.

4 ways to hold up your Medicare claims payments – don’t get caught doing these!

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What are the most common Medicare Part A claims errors we see from working with clients?   We could go on for pages and pages, but we know your time is valuable so we are just dealing with a few of the worst offenders today.

Want to collect your private pay? Start at the beginning

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It is vitally important that you have collection strategies in place for all payer types, especially Private. We have worked with many clients and we will be sharing what some of the more successful ones do to collect their Private balances.

First Aid for Receivables: Where do you start? [1 of 3]

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Don’t discount the importance of “cleaning up” your aging report.  To truly be able to collect the maximum amount of money and do it in a timely manner, you need to start with an accurate aging report and account activity detail.  This is not for the faint of heart since it can take a significant…

LeadingAge 2011 – Inspiration and a great show in DC

MLK Memorial

Another LeadingAge conference with interesting and compelling speakers, sessions and a very successful trade show in Washington, D.C.  What an interesting time to be in the nation’s capitol! Protesters in tents, the dedication of the long overdue Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial and thousands of LeadingAge attendees and exhibitors everywhere.  So many interesting sights and…

Good times at Florida FHCA

FHCA 2011

Orlando in August.  That’s all you have to say and everyone knows it is hot!  Happily, the 2011 FHCA Annual Conference and Trade Show was interesting and well attended.  The trade show was a great success, with

On Fire at the Keane Users Conference

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For those of you that attended the Keane Users Conference we are sure it was all that you expected and more.  It was packed full of useful and interesting information for users.  And what a fun night show they had Monday

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