Health Care Workforce Analysis
StratiHealth has developed considerable knowledge and expertise in health care workforce analysis and management. Our talented team of professionals are skilled in analyzing workforce trends, workforce management, and workforce scheduling to optimize resource and staff use.
In much of our work, we have developed and implemented customized models to evaluate health care workforce supply requirements, along with Lean Six Sigma and change management initiatives. These models were then applied to forecast the adequacy of supply and to analyze the impact of potential policy scenarios along with decision support tools to analyze options for staffing.
StratiHealth Workforce Analysis
StratiHealth developed and implemented customized models to evaluate health care workforce supply and requirements. These models were then applied to forecast the adequacy of supply and to analyze the impact of potential policy scenarios. We overlay activities through value mapping to eliminate waste while assuring quality, employee engagement and efficiency.
StratiHealth Six Sigma Experts
The StratiHealth team of experts include the full range of health care professionals, including physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, dentists, physical therapists, respiratory therapists, radiology technologists, medical laboratory technologists, health care quality professionals and I.T. specialists. We partners with our business associates and leverage software and systems from Oracle, SAS and other systems and tools.
StratiHealth Workforce Assessment
StratiHealth has developed considerable knowledge and expertise in health care workforce analysis and management. Our talented team of professionals are skilled in analyzing workforce trends, workforce management, and workforce scheduling to optimize resource and staff use.
Lean Six Sigma
The importance of reducing waste while ensuring quality and customer satisfaction are at high levels and are front of mind of all senior healthcare leaders. Organizations face unprecedented complexities in balancing cost with productivity and ensuring value added services while mobilizing their managers to reduce costs while increasing productivity.
Most mid level managers and directors are perplexed with how to in improve their respective areas of operations and are frankly out of ideas when it comes to improving cost performance relative to productivity. Smart leaders recognize the need to supplement their knowledge with sophisticated methods and processes to improve operational performance in a balanced manner.
They understand the need to take an active role in the deployment of Lean Six Sigma; partnering with proven experts to help them succeed.
StratiHealth Lean Process
Stratihealth’s focus on operations performance improvement features the Lean Six Sigma (LSS) approach. LSS is a performance improvement methodology aimed at reducing waste and cutting lead time (Lean) while reducing variation and improving quality (Six Sigma). LSS is a balanced, people-focused methodology that can be implemented at all levels and in any organization type to enable improved productivity and quality within a set time frame.
StratiHealth Six Sigma Process
Our work includes value stream mapping and Kaizen events utilizing just the right mix of LSS tools, as well as mentoring your staff to continue your own improvement efforts after we leave. We help clients prepare their leadership for Lean, create and develop internal staff, train staff members in Lean thinking, and facilitate successful change projects. We also teach clients how to use the A3 problem-solving process to develop leaders at all levels.
StratiHealth Six Sigma Black Belts
Stratihealth’s experts are on the staff of leading LSS certification programs; affiliated with Lean Six Sigma professional organizations such as the WCBF and are passionate about achieving tangible and significant savings for our clients. Our Lean Six Sigma team are certified LSS Master Black Belts or Lean Masters.
Strategy & Operations
Executable strategy requires fusing insightful thinking with disciplined execution to achieve breakthrough performance. Today, senior executives grapple with attaining profitable growth, strategically managing costs and intelligently navigating risk. Such challenges require more than identifying new possibilities and making tough choices. They also require bridging the gap between vision and execution.
Our Strategy & Operations teams bring deep industry experience, rigorous analytical capabilities and a pragmatic mindset to our clients’ most complex business problems. Our strategy capabilities span corporate and business unit strategy, M&A strategy and sales and marketing. Our operational capabilities reflect the unique issues facing health care organizations, service businesses and infrastructure operations.
StratiHealth Strategy and Operations
Operational planning for budget constrained health care organizations, requires rigorous business planning and financial management while balancing the capacity for operations to implement plans. Health care operations and finance must incorporate economic analysis and forecasting to business and clinical processes as well as revenue cycle management.
StratiHealth Strategic Operations
We recognize the value of leveraging systems, information, and technology to enable strategic transformations of operations. Operational strategy must have a balanced scorecard to facilitate definition of goals and objectives and to manage the alignment and strategic links of the people, processes, and outcomes.
StratiHealth Strategic Thinking
Operational strategy enables health care organizations to research, analyze, define, and realize the strategic intent of complex policy changes and organizational transformation initiatives. The forward thinking approach creates scalable, systems-based change and execution of tactics to achieve objectives and business goals and most important stakeholder adoption at all levels of operations.
Revenue Cycle Management
StratiHealth assists organizations in all components of revenue cycle management, from the point of entry through patient access; scheduling through patient services; and medical management through patient financial back-end services, including management of denials, appeals, and collections—all of which are monitored by a strong compliance program. Stratihealth has identified and resolved both common and uncommon challenges for our clients to ensure that they meet government compliance requirements and industry best practices.
Our revenue cycle management services promote quality health care by helping clients achieve efficient, effective, and ethical revenue cycle practices. System solutions for large and small health care organizations include quality assessments; operational reviews; bill, chart, and remit reviews; and compliance activities (patient registration, coding, billing, and denial management).
StratiHealth Revenue Cycle Map
StratiHealth assists organizations in all components of health revenue cycle management, from the point of entry through patient access; scheduling through patient services; and medical management through patient financial back-end services, including management of denials, appeals, and collections—all of which are monitored by a strong compliance program.
StratiHealth Revenue Cycle Process
The use of financial IT solutions in your healthcare revenue cycle enables you to determine not only insurance eligibility but also the patient’s ability and willingness to pay healthcare costs. Including medical necessity checking during registration, scheduling and ordering can help reduce Medicare denials and increase reimbursement by providing medically necessary services.
StratiHealth Revenue Cycle Experts
By facilitating improved workflow processes and eliminating the waste and ineffective processes StratiHealth’s revenue cycle experts and solutions enable organizations to accurately authorize services, determine, validate coverage for payment, assess payment risk and schedule resources appropriately.
Regulatory Compliance
StratiHealth helps to navigate the uncertain waters that exists in today’s dynamic and complex environments. Challenged with regulatory requirements and the “new normal”. The challenge with implementing requirements imposed by the new healthcare reform measures are significant.
The electronic transactions must be HIPAA-compliant and every health care system, interface, business relationship or vendor application will need to be evaluated – including financial reporting, data on quality, disease management and case management systems, management reports and provider contracts – just to name a few. Coupled with this is the need to ensure survey and audit readiness with state, federal and The Joint Commission standards.