Holiday Traditions
This creamy holiday drink is made from milk, sugar, and eggs and is often served with nutmeg.
What is eggnog?
Claim used for professional billing.
What is a CMS-1500?
First step ensuring patient information accuracy.
What is registration?
Metric that spikes when payers slow down processing.
What is Days in AR?
Boy defends home like RCM protects revenue.
What is Home Alone?
Plant hung for holiday kisses.
What is mistletoe?
Codes describing diagnoses.
What are ICD-10 codes?
Reviewing and resubmitting denied claims.
What is denial management?
Year-end payer updates can disrupt this process.
What is payment posting?
Character who steals cheer like denials steal revenue.
What is The Grinch?
This holiday marks the end of the year.
What is New Year’s Eve?
Codes describing procedures.
What are CPT codes?
This function requires interpreting payer remittance codes to correctly allocate payments, adjustments, and denials.
What is payment posting?
This segment of AR represents balances not collected within their contractual timely filing or payment window.
What is outstanding/ deliquent AR?
Train symbolizing a smooth workflow.
What is The Polar Express?
This Alpine creature is said to punish misbehaving children during the Christmas season.
Who is Krampus?
These codes explain why payers are being Grinches about your reimbursement.
What are CARC codes?
Team that follows up on outstanding payer balances.
What is AR follow-up?
This key RCM metric measures the effectiveness of your revenue cycle by comparing actual payments to expected reimbursement.
What is the collection rate?
In this movie, a magical hat brings a snowman to life much like documentation “resurrects” denied claim
What is Frosty the Snowman?
This dense holiday bread from Germany is filled with dried fruits and marzipan.
What is stollen?
Claims can only process without delays when diagnosis and procedure codes meet all billing rules, resulting in this.
What is a clean claim?
Metric measuring speed of payment collection.
What is Days in AR?
Revenue permanently lost each year.
What is bad debt?
This holiday film uses a parallel-universe narrative to illustrate how one change can alter an entire financial outcome — much like revising claim workflows.
What is It’s a Wonderful Life?