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If it seems like your margins are greatly improving, but you think that you can go, even more, you aren’t alone in your thinking. With more emphasis than ever put on delivery and margins, many people are looking into their healthcare revenue cycles to see just what they can do improve and exceed expectations and goals. Everything from the Affordable Care Act to the laws currently passing in Congress will change your healthcare revenue cycle, so it is important to take note and evaluate where you need to make changes.

One of the best ways to do this is to look at your healthcare revenue cycle and determine if using healthcare management services will help you. 

Hospitals, In Particular, Need to Pay Attention to the Healthcare Revenue Cycle

There is no denying that hospitals are making money, it has been proven that really aren’t making as much money as they could be making, especially those who cater to an extremely large population. While, of course, the performance and efficiency of workers can play into those margins and do impact your healthcare revenue cycle, the more significant loss of money comes from the revenue cycle itself. The procedures used in the hospital rooms, for training sessions, and even for something as simple as washing our hands have improved, few people have sought to improve their budgetary cycles.

It’s a shame– because that requires more work than some of the other, smaller, less significant details that we fill our days with – at least, most people do.

So how can using management software for your healthcare revenue cycle help you? It will cut down on some of the small details that you do all day that just take up time when you could be doing something else—like:

· Calling insurance companies,

· Invoicing,

· Filing

· Administrative Work

· Authorizations

· Calling clients

· Booking Appointments

· Answering basic patient questions

· And more

Using your existing healthcare revenue cycle, you can find healthcare management that will help you to improve your system and get to doing the work that you really want to do. Naturally, you should search around and look for something that works, but you want to focus on getting what you need, not just something that you can settle on for now.

So just how does proper management change your healthcare revenue cycle? It does the following five things:

Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management Enhances Productivity

The more productive your team is, the more your healthcare revenue cycle will work and the more it will work for you. With proper management, you will be able to see where your most profits come from and where you are struggling, an imperative need that people often overlook. An inside perspective to these metrics can significantly alter what you do and how you do it.

Even more importantly, your team will be able to spend less time chasing down smaller items like collections, remedying system codes, and contacting patients. In just a few months, you will be able to track these metrics with the proper healthcare revenue cycle company and management firm.

Revenue cycle management doesn’t automatically enhance productivity in many cases, it will instead give you perspective on how you can make the changes yourself.

Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management Advances Compliance

Advances, compliance is significant in the healthcare industry, specifically for those who have confronted problems with it in the past– people are always on the lookout for another slip or another problem.

You effectively have a target on your back. Proper management of your healthcare revenue cycle helps to ensure that you are compliant, and you stay compliance at all times– and that patient data is always secured.

In fact, this is one of the most important things that proper management will change in your healthcare revenue cycle – you will be trusted more. After a while, word gets around, and you will get a better reputation. With healthcare revenue cycle management, complying with that process is almost always automatic and effortless – and everyone appreciates that.

Your Patients Will Be Happier

Certainly, we all want to make insurance companies and our staff happy, but really our happiness and success depend on patients.

When you have a well-formulated and implemented revenue cycle management plan that handles a majority of the communication and interaction with patients outside of the office, they will recognize the distinction and be more likely to come back to you, pay attention, and of course pay you. Even more, they are more willing to listen to what you say because they place confidence in you overall.

Your Goals Will Be Attainable

Finally, healthcare revenue cycle management will improve your bottom line and make it possible for you to achieve your goals. Simply put, you will be collecting more, putting in less, maintaining employees, and drawing in more employees. All of these things work together to enable you to get where you want to be – especially if you are trying to push yourself to the next level.

Interested in revenue cycle management? There are plenty of companies out there that can help you. Make sure to do your research and find a company or management software firm that can really help your healthcare revenue cycle and are willing to work with you to get you where you need to be.

This is a recipe of fresh, spicy salsa for a sinus infection. There are fresh raw onion and garlic that are minced and good for killing anything. The cayenne pepper helps with this also. Then, all of the chopped red or green peppers, tomatoes, and lime or lemon juice for some fresh vitamin C. Try to use organic tomatoes and peppers for this recipe.

I’ve tried this salsa before when I had sinus congestion and it made me feel ten times better. You can really feel it clearing your sinuses. You can make a homemade version or buy some hot salsa in the produce section at the grocery store. The hotter the better.

Fresh, Spicy Salsa

• 2 medium tomatoes, minced
• 1 red or green sweet pepper, minced
• 1 small jalapeno pepper, minced
• 1/2 bunch cilantro, minced
• 1/2 bunch green onions or 1/2 yellow onion, minced
• 2 garlic buds, pressed or minced
• 1 lime, juiced
• 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
• 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
• 1 tsp real salt

Mince everything by using a blender or special chopper. If you like a more bulky salsa, chop the tomatoes and sweet pepper in 1/2″ cubes. Slice the whole tomato in 1/2′ slices, then take two slices and cut into 1/2″ strips and then 1/2″ cubes. Mince the onions and garlic buds. Add lime juice and seasonings.

Get some healthy chips. Well, that’s hard to say “healthy”, because they are generally considered junk food. Just get some organic ones and maybe the baked kind. All corn products should say organic, or you can assume that they are GMO, which you can learn about on this link. GMO products are really bad for your health.

The purpose of this recipe is for the salsa not the chips, the chips only help you eat the salsa. Try to eat less chips by putting plenty of salsa on each chip. You want to get the benefit of the salsa mainly and not get sicker from chips.

Carrot Pulp for Colon Cleansing

Carrot pulp for colon cleansing is a very effective and economical solution if you feel like your colon is all clogged up and your waist is bulging, Carrot pulp, which is usually thrown away after juicing, is actually a very good source of fiber for a colon cleanse. Many people like to juice carrots with a juicer. Five carrots can turn out about 1 cup of carrot juice. But, then what happens to the pulp that is leftover?

Carrots contain a great source of fiber that will help to carry the fat out and contribute towards your weight loss.  It’s even more concentrated after they have been juiced. You are basically left with mostly fiber in the pulp bin and nutritional juice for drinking into your cup.

Many people don’t like to waste the pulp and will add it to muffins or various bread recipes. I like to put some pulp in a ziploc sandwich baggie, get all the air out, zip it closed, and then store it in the freezer until I am ready to use it. I can store about one cup or more of carrot pulp in a baggie.

One time, I tried adding it to some soup that I had made. I might have added two cups worth to the soup.

My  husband really enjoyed the soup. He was pleasantly surprised to have what he termed the “best clean out” ever for his colon.

He’s tried various colon cleanses before and could really tell a difference with the carrot pulp. He now thinks it’s the most effective colon cleanse there is.

If you have a yummy soup recipe like the ones on these links – minestrone or spare-the-chicken, chicken little, chick-pea, try adding 1-2 cups of carrot pulp to them. If you don’t want your house to steamy from cooking over the stove, try making it in a slow cooker. You will save electricity.

Lemon Garlic Drink to Fight Infection

I have used a lemon garlic drink to fight infection. There was a time years ago when I had an abscess in my mouth. It came from a tooth that was giving me troubles. I prayed about what I could do to get rid of it. The answer came to make a lemon garlic drink. I went in the kitchen and started making one. Within 12 hours, the infection had gone down by half.

This is an effective drink for any infection, virus, bacteria or cancer cells. It doesn’t taste good or bad, but you might like it better with a spoon of honey added.  The nice thing about this drink is that you are able to drink some liquefied garlic without having bad breath from it. The lemon oils in the rind help with deodorizing and freshening your breath while also being antiseptic.

Then, you can enjoy the benefits of garlic, which kills all germs. Garlic is the poor man’s antibiotic. The yellow part of the lemon rind is lately proven to be more effective than chemo in fighting cancer. It’s been recommended to put grated lemon rind/zest on whatever you eat at every meal. My original recipe for Infection-Fighting Lemon Garlic Drink was submitted to the Herbal Legacy website.

For this recipe, I am making a little revision by including the yellow part of the lemon peel too with its beneficial lemon oil. In that recipe I removed the yellow part of the lemon rind. The white part of the lemon rind has vitamin C complex and the juicy vitamin C rich center is beneficial for a drink. The stones are quite powerful too. So, I just use the whole lemon half. I know a senior lady who buys grapefruit seed extract liquid drops to help her get over bronchitis a lot quicker. Lemon stones are in the same citrus family so I figure they are beneficial too.

I have told other people about this and they have also found success. One lady found that it helped her with her bronchitis as well as some testimonials in the comments below. I give it to my kids if they are coming down with something and it appears to also be helpful against acne. Recently, there is research about the strong effects of the yellow part of the lemon rind to fight cancer. Apparently, the whole lemon can be frozen, then grated onto foods you eat as a great way to more effectively fight cancer than chemotherapy.

Whole Lemon Peel

The nice thing about including the whole lemon peel is that it helps you to not have bad breath from the garlic. The yellow part of the rind has essential oils that fight germs, is a natural deodorant and mouthwash refreshener. This drink would also be very powerful in not only strengthening the immune system, but in fighting a virus also. But, I only now use half a lemon, because of the strong taste of the lemon oils.

All parts of the lemon are amazingly helpful; the vitamin C rich inside, the vitamin C complex white part of the rind, the lemon oils in the rind, and even the bitter antioxidant rich seeds.

Garlic Bud

The garlic bud that is added is liquefied to become more effective. Garlic is known to kill all bacteria, fungus, parasites, and germs.  The good thing is that your good bacteria or probiotics are unaffected by garlic. This is a natural way that is better for your system than to continually take antibiotics, which kill off your good bacteria and lead to more infection in the long run.

The taste is fine for this drink. If you want to get well sooner, you will probably make yourself like it.  The lemon covers the garlic odor and taste. And the garlic helps to mellow the taste of lemon. You won’t have bad breath with this drink and can enjoy the benefits of the raw garlic. The lemon oil will counteract the odor on your breath, leaving a fresh taste and smell of lemons. When you want to get better, you will happily drink it.

Lemon Garlic Drink to Fight Infection by Janet Hailstone

1/2 lemon including seeds and rind, cut the half of the lemon into fourths

1 garlic bud, take off the paper by smashing the garlic with the flat blade of a chef’s knife, then paper is easily removed

1 cup water to blend

1 tbsp honey, optional (It’s not needed but it will taste better, I usually omit this but it does make the drink taste good)

Ice to fill 2 cup glass.

Insert all of the ingredients into a blender and blend well to liquefy for a minute or two. Blends to a very smooth drink. Pour into a 2 cup mug and fill the remaining amount with ice. Drink with a straw 

Are you too lame to exercise? I usually am. I’ve been thinking about exercising for a long time and hadn’t figured out how I would get myself to do a daily exercise routine. I can’t say I’m too busy, I just didn’t feel like it or know how if  I would actually fit it into my schedule.

Then, I realized that I could break it all up into little parts to make it easy. I figured an easy way to remember to do them was by adding an exercise to a daily event.

I think I can get some good exercises in my day now. It will only take a minute here and there and can become a habit that’s easy to remember.

This will strengthen the muscles, joints, and tone up the body.  Here are some simple ideas I came up with that are working out so far.

1.Every morning before getting out of bed, I do two leg lifts, I just lift my legs twice.  That’s easy enough for starters.

2. After I brush my teeth, I do one quick squat and then stand up. It can be a challenge lifting your own weight if you are a wimp. I took an emergency training class with the city once. We had to lift a simulated trauma victim. One person lifted under the person’s arms, the other person lifted the person’s legs. I could hardly do it and realize I needed to get stronger by just doing regular squat lifts, so I can at least lift myself. Getting some practice lifting my own weight has more incentive for me if I just do one squat exercise twice a day at first.3. When I am walking down the hall at the end of the day, I can do it in lunges. This is good for toning up the leg and hip muscles.

Many other exercise can be implemented into a regular day like running from the car to a building, doing a few jumping jacks before washing the dishes, or some stretches before going to bed.  You can increase the difficulty more with time.

Carrot pulp for colon cleansing is a very effective and economical solution if you feel like your colon is all clogged up and your waist is bulging, Carrot pulp, which is usually thrown away after juicing, is actually a very good source of fiber for a colon cleanse. Many people like to juice carrots with a juicer. Five carrots can turn out about 1 cup of carrot juice. But, then what happens to the pulp that is leftover?

Carrots contain a great source of fiber that will help to carry the fat out and contribute towards your weight loss.  It’s even more concentrated after they have been juiced. You are basically left with mostly fiber in the pulp bin and nutritional juice for drinking into your cup.

Many people don’t like to waste the pulp and will add it to muffins or various bread recipes. I like to put some pulp in a ziploc sandwich baggie, get all the air out, zip it closed, and then store it in the freezer until I am ready to use it. I can store about one cup or more of carrot pulp in a baggie.

Carrot pulp needs to be stored away airtight in a freezer container before harmful chemical reactions take place for the air oxidizing it.

One time, I tried adding it to some soup that I had made. I might have added two cups worth to the soup.

My  husband really enjoyed the soup. He was pleasantly surprised to have what he termed the “best clean out” ever for his colon.

He’s tried various colon cleanses before and could really tell a difference with the carrot pulp. He now thinks it’s the most effective colon cleanse there is.

If you have a yummy soup recipe like the ones on these links – minestrone or spare-the-chicken, chicken little, chick-pea, try adding 1-2 cups of carrot pulp to them. If you don’t want your house to steamy from cooking over the stove, try making it in a slow cooker. You will save electricity.