Revenue Cycle Workflow

Tools That Can Influence Your Revenue Cycle

Your revenue cycle workflow includes the activities within your practice related to billing. Front office tasks like verifying insurance or collecting a co-pay, documentation of the visit using appropriate diagnosis and procedure codes, and activities related to submitting the claim and then managing the collections process are all linked together like a chain. Just one small kink in the chain can throw off your revenue cycle and generally wreak havoc.

Having cohesive front and back office billing functions improves revenue because it creates time efficiencies, aids communication, and allows for appropriate oversight of coding and other billing processes. The sample revenue cycle management worklow below shows the many interrelated steps in the payment process.