Revenue Cycle Management for Skilled Nursing Facilities

Stay up-to-date on skilled nursing regulations along with tips and tricks to improve your medical billing from the experts at MCA.

How One Midwest SNF Recovered $990K in Revenue and Cut Aged AR by 76% in Under a Year

Aged accounts receivable is one of those problems that tends to grow quietly. A missed follow-up here, a payer processing issue there, a private pay balance that sits unaddressed for a few months none of it looks catastrophic in isolation. But over time, those gaps compound. The 30-day...

Outsourcing Home Healthcare Billing: Costs, Benefits, and What to Look for in a Billing Partner

Home healthagencies operate in one of the most administratively complex billing environments in healthcare. The Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), 30-day billing periods, Notice of Admission filing deadlines, OASIS accuracy requirements, and state-specific Medicaid variation create a...

Outsourcing Hospice Billing: What It Costs, What You Gain, and How to Choose the Right Partner

Hospice providers dedicate themselves to delivering compassionate care at life's most difficult moments. The administrative and financial management required to sustain that mission including the precise billing processes that determine whether a hospice organization remains financially...

SNF Billing Codes Explained: Revenue Codes, Type of Bill, and HIPPS Under PDPM

Accurate coding is how clinical care becomes reimbursement in skilled nursing billing, and even small coding errors can have significant financial consequences. An incorrect Type of Bill routes a claim to the wrong payment system. A missing revenue code drops a charge from the claim...

SNF Billing Guidelines for Medicare Part B: What Skilled Nursing Facilities Need to Know

Medicare Part A gets most of the attention in SNF billing it governs post-acute reimbursement under PDPM, drives MDS coding decisions, and involves the consolidated billing rules that create the most compliance complexity. But Medicare Part B, binding on skilled nursing facilities is...

What Is SNF Billing and Why Getting It Right Determines Your Facility’s Cash Flow

If you oversee operations at a skilled nursing facility, billing isn't a back-office function. It's the mechanism that converts every day of care your team delivers into the revenue that keeps your facility running. And yet, for many SNF administrators, how the billing process works...