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  • Title: Achieving excellence in the management of accounts receivable.
    Author: Ladewig TL, Hecht BA.
    Journal: Healthc Financ Manage; 1993 Sep; 47(9):24-6, 28-32. PubMed ID: 10145865.
    Abstract:
    Recent changes in healthcare reimbursement rules and practices have made the task of accounts receivable management a particularly demanding one for most financial managers. One multihospital system, after pursuing numerous strategies to reduce its accounts receivable with only marginal levels of success, launched a systemwide initiative to share both the positive and the negative accounts receivable management experiences of each department at each hospital in the system with all patient accounting staff. The objective of the initiative was to use the lessons learned from those experiences to attain excellence in accounts receivable management throughout the system. The ultimate success of the initiative is detailed in the following article.
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