Jacobus Consulting
Cash Acceleration Services – DNFB Cleanup
If your DNFB is moving the wrong direction, Jacobus can turn it around. We provide deep expertise in all facets of the revenue cycle, including a complete Revenue Cycle Redesign packaged methodology and services. Leveraging our expertise and utilizing SWAT teams, we craft rapid benefit solutions into short-term projects focused on lowering DNFB, turning AR more quickly, and improving cash collections – while establishing visibility and control and fixing the causes of a bloated DNFB.
DNFB Cleanup projects involve:
- End-to-end analysis of the entire DNFB, with comprehensive categorization of the current state of accounts.
- In-depth analysis of the issues preventing accounts from rapidly moving on to billing. This often includes missing demographic information or authorizations; systems issues; charging problems due to charge master issues or charge capture process issues; chart processing or chart deficiency delays; or other missing information required for billing.
- A report to Health Information and Revenue Cycle leadership on DNFB status, suggesting strategies to get accounts quickly moving, including discovery and recommendations for fixing more difficult root-cause issues at their source.
- Suggested best-practice day-to-day management strategies for the DNFB, including coaching of Health Information department management and staff.
- Rapid assistance from Jacobus SWAT personnel who work the accounts, repair issues and move them quickly to billing and to cash.
- Design and build of Key Performance Indicators to provide ongoing management monitoring and reporting of DNFB trends.
A DNFB Clean up project provides a path to a quick increase in billed accounts and therefore cash collections. It will also provide an oppritunity to identify and recapture missed revenue and prevent billing errors up front. Your DNFB key indicator will rapidly move torwards a healthy status.
The benefits of a Jacobus DNFB Cleanup project include:
- Renewed clarity, visibility and control regarding day-to-day status of the DNFB
- DNFB reduction and a rapid movement of accounts into cash
- Early warning and avoidance on DNFB issues that adversely impact AR and cash collections
- Early detection and avoidance of issues that commonly result in downstream denials
- More effective day-to-day management strategies for better DNFB control
- Attainment of management information needed to repair difficult Revenue Cycle problems at their root causes
