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Emails Lick Stamps and Envelopes
Sending emails — rather than letters — is cheaper, faster and more convenient for our patients.
- Email provides patients with timely information about their appointments and enhances our ability to deliver safe, affordable and convenient quality care and service.
- Tracking the number of paper envelopes mailed to patients
Oversight Reduces Scanning Errors
This team ensured accuracy in scanned documents by educating team mates and openly learning from mistakes.
- Document errors can lead to problems with quality and service.
- In-service to demonstrate proper scanning workflow
Helping Patients Pay for the Care They Need
By finding ways to ensure forms are filled out thoroughly and correctly, this team helped members get and pay for needed care and increased their own efficiency.
- In-need patients can quality for charity care programs.
- Standardizing note-taking styles to ensure consistency
Bring Mail Together and Save
These team saved thousands of dollars when it took gradual steps to centralize mail processing for whole region. negotiated lower rates for vendor services.
- Saving money helps us keep KP affordable for members and patients.
- Facilities sorted and metered mail at fewer locations, enabling the team to negotiate lower rates for vendor services
Getting Better at Collecting Third-Party Billings
Collecting money owed from third parties skyrocketed when this finance team trained up staff and used the electronic tools at their fingertips.
- To keep KP affordable for all patients and members, we need to collect the money owed to us.
- Teaching how to code for workplace injuries and accidents
Make Collections Easier for Everyone
Team increased its percentage of collecting co-pays through training and awareness.
- Positively affect the bottom-line performance of your team from revenue to payroll.
- Learning how to ask patients for money
Blitz Bulldozes Backlogged Claims
The team saw a 50 percent increase in sessions processed when members focused their efforts as a team on a particular work queue.
- Delays in moving claims through the process impacts members, staff and KP’s bottom line.
- Team members work together on the same queue until the backlog decreases, instead of everyone working in individual queues
Steering Away from Outsourcing
Couriers saved more than $145,000 in five months after they reconfigured routes, purchased better software to track pickups and deliveries and equipped drivers with smartphones.
- Reducing our reliance on outside couriers and investing in technology improves affordability and timely pick-up and delivery of packages .
- Changing routes and bringing contracted routes in house
Driving for More Efficient Routes
Morale among courier drivers improved when they started collaborating effectively to come up with more efficient routes.
- Teams members need to communicate well with each other in order to solve problems, improve performance and have a great workplace.
- Diversify communication methods