Improvements in billing processes and information systems increase cash collections in a public health care system.
Management information systems are an essential tool for health care managers. Denver Health, an integrated safety net institution, upgraded its financial management information system during 1997 and experienced almost an 18 percent or $23 million increase in cash collections from 1997 to 1998 and...
| Publicado en: | Health Care Manager Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 29 - 37 |
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| Formato: | tables/charts Journal Article |
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Sep2001
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