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Coming January 16 & 17 – Leadership Webinar: How to Conduct Fun and Effective Meetings. Join Renee Waller, M.S., a nationally recognized expert, author, and speaker on leadership development in healthcare, for an action packed 90 minutes and learn how to turn meetings into the most productive part of you work day.

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New Webinar - Preparing for Upcoming Recovery Audit Contractors Audits.

This webinar is designed specifically for billers, coders and their managers who are preparing their organizations for these new audits. You will walk away with the understanding of the RAC audit program, what your facility can expect based on past experiences of other states, and how to prepare a RAC Readiness Action Plan for your organization.

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Portland, Oregon – Revenue Cycle courses now available for Community Colleges.

Formal education opportunities are limited for front-line patient access and accounts staff. However, all of that is changing in the fall of 2007.

BridgeFront’s Executive Vice President, Lorraine Schnelle, CPA, has teamed with Montcalm Community College Dean of Nursing & Allied Health Jenny Griffiths Kwast, MSN, APRN-BC, NP to create two new courses, Healthcare Revenue Cycle I and II, designed to prepare students for careers in patient access and accounts. Enrollment is now open for these 6 credit courses that are designed to prepare students for a job in just one semester.

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BridgeFront adds webinar - UB-04 Update, NPI & POA Compliance – Where are We Going Next? July 18, 2007. Let Claudia Birkenshaw lead you through the latest trends and updates regarding the implementation to UB-04, valuable updates on the Source of Admission code set changes, and pending CMS mandates on reporting POA (Present on Admission Indicators).

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BridgeFront adds white paper for those people who would like to learn about online training, from the ground up. The paper explores computer based training from its beginnings, up to present day and gives the reader the confidence to consider this new media for their facility.

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Portland, Oregon – BridgeFront’s  Executive Vice President, Lorraine Schnelle, CPA, has been invited to present at HFMA’s Annual National Institute in San Diego (June 24 – 27). The education session topic is “A Leadership Guide to Creating Competencies for PFS Team Members.”

Thousands of healthcare financial executives and professionals attend this conference on an annual basis. Education sessions cover the hottest topics in financial management.

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Portland, Oregon - BridgeFront announces a new and exciting Knowledge base to assist their clients with the new UB-04 form. The Knowledge Base comes at no-charge and only takes a simple sign-up to enter.

"Within the first few days of launch, the UB-04 Knowledge Base has seen over 5,000 visitors," says Kent Lane COO/CTO of BridgeFront's leading edge development department. Lane goes on to say, "it is clear that our client base is hungry for information on the new UB-04 form, we are happy that we could help".

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Naples, Florida - based Health Management Associates reported that it expects to record $200 million in bad debt expense in the fourth quarter due to an increase in self-paying patients.

Industry experts don’t believe this is an isolated event. Competition, low operating margins and high deductibles in consumer-directed health plans are all putting pressure on healthcare providers to pay even greater attention to accounts receivable (AR) management.

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Be BridgeFront’s guest for a 90 minute information packed UB-04 Staff Preparation online seminar, designed specifically for your front-line billing staff. You will walk away with the latest updates on UB-04, as well as a complete understanding and update related to issues such as the National Provider Identifier indicators, Present on Admission indicators, UB-04 printing issues, and you'll learn about experiences of other providers.

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BridgeFront introduces UB-04 course into their growing library. This online course is designed specifically for your billers, to ensure they understand key changes to the new UB-04 paper claim form. The course identifies the changes, deletions, and additions between the UB-92 and the new UB-04 form.

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