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Clinical Operations and Management

Healthcare Management Services

Healthcare Management Services

Clinical Operations and Management

Clarity Health manages all aspects of your Hospital and Ambulatory Surgery Center. Whether you are a hospital, physician/hospital joint venture or physician owned surgery center, the Clarity Health leadership team will delivers and executes proven success strategies gained via the experience of managing hospitals, single and multi specialty ASCs throughout the country. Services Include:

• Insures compliance with system efficiencies, policies and procedures
• Assists ongoing hiring, education, and training
• Negotiating and reviewing third party payor contracting annually
• Participating on Governing Board to ensure fiscally responsible decision making
• Assisting with implementation of a comprehensive budget and marketing plan
• Providing risk management and human resource support
• Implementing and monitoring monthly/quarterly financial and statistical reports
• Preparing annual operating agreements and capital budgets
• Implementing and managing key indicators
• Monitoring clinical, financial and operations benchmarking against national standards
• Maximizing scheduling efficiencies
• Establishing and monitoring surgeon utilization reports
• Maintaining clinical and operational compliance
• Enhancing revenues and supporting future center development
• Designing inventory control mechanisms
• Purchasing capital equipment while maintaining a focus on controlling capital expenses
• Monitoring patient satisfaction reports
• Providing updated information on legislative and regulatory issues
• Maintaining accreditation requirements and supporting agency surveys

What Makes Clarity Different?

• Offering equity and non equity models
• Offering participation in real estate, operations, and management
• Providing full turnkey development with no outsourcing for equipment procurement or managed care contracting. Our services take you from financial development through State Licensure and Medicare certification.
• Offering Central Business Office: A centralized billing office providing you with streamlined billing and collections, ability to minimize administrative overhead, and allocate every square foot of your medical space to revenue producing ventures. This is a separate service agreement.
• Extending flexibility and innovation to individualize our services to meet the needs of your group and the community in which you practice.
• Providing Capital expenditures and supply discounts below standard Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) pricing to both the facility and individual physician offices.
• Offering savings on liability, property and casualty insurance.
• Assisting with JCAHO, AAAHC and Centers of Excellence preparation.
• Providing Net Learning curriculum for all clinical staff
• Providing strategic growth planning for your ASC and physician practices.
• Implementing electronic file management systems.
• Delivering success in revitalizing existing centers.
• IT specialists with national ASC/MOB experience priced below market rates.
• Access to other physicians through specialty diversified networks.

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Clinical Operations Operational Development and Sustainment

Clarity’s Oversight of Clinical Operations, Operational Development, and Sustainment

Clarity Health manages all aspects of the operational development of your joint ventured Ambulatory Surgery Center and delivers proven success in both single and multispecialty ASCs throughout the country. Whether you are a hospital, physician/hospital joint venture or physician owned surgery center, Clarity Health delivers proven success in both single and multi- specialty ASCs throughout the country. Fees, negotiated by Clarity Health and the client prior to initiation of the project, are based on the size and scope of the project. Services include the following items, resulting in a thorough, turn-key development process.

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Clarity Management and Consulting Services

Why Clarity Management and Consulting Services?

Clarity Health Managing, Re-Branding, Re-Vitalizing and Re-Inventing
Clarity Health has a developed program to assist groups or facilities that would benefit from additional expertise to reach higher goals. We manage new facilities and re-brand, re-vitalize and re-invent existing facilities. If you have a hospital or ambulatory surgery center that should be performing at an elevated level, Clarity Health can assist with identifying opportunities and creating efficiencies toward improved performance. The revitalization process begins with an on-site audit and analysis of your facility operations by Clarity Health team members. We will review everything from the business office practices to your clinical operations, from the point of supply entry to billing supplies consumed. This site visit is followed by a deliverable detailing a proposed action plan for improvement.

Description of Clarity Health Managed Services
•Perform an on-site operational systems audit to evaluate efficiencies and conduct a business office audit to evaluate coding, billing processes, electronic claim filing, collections, and outstanding A/R.
•Review payor contracts and reimbursement practices.
•Perform revenue and expense analysis for all departments.
•Interview staff, physicians and managers/administrators to obtain their input and ideas for improvement.
•Analyze and identify market-specific opportunities or threats affecting business success.
•Review vendor contracts, requisition and purchasing approval processes, accounts payable process and salary structure to identify potential cost reductions and facility savings.
•The Clarity Health team is usually on-site for two to three days with additional follow up by phone and e-mail, as needed.
•Options for implementation of action plan and management of facility by Clarity Health.

Highlight Potential Revenue Opportunities Eliminate the Others that Loose
•Propose methods to reduce costs, improve profitability, enhance productivity and increase patient and employee satisfactions, resulting in bottom line revenue that is currently unrealized.
•Streamlined process performed on-site with administrative involvement.
•Written summary of findings from auditors with action plan that can be implemented by local staff or Clarity Health staff.

Clarity Impact Statement
•Direct bottom line improvement.
•Enhanced productivity in all areas.
•Increased patient and employee satisfaction.
•Improved management processes that empower staff and enhance working environment.
•Increased purchasing power and efficiencies.
•Improved efficiencies in business office procedures, resulting in increased revenue capture in all departments.

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