The Hospital Finance Podcast
The Importance of Utilization Management in Healthcare
In this episode, we are joined by BESLER's Meliza Weiner to discuss the important issue of utilization management and how it affects revenue at hospitals. Highlights of this episode include: the different ways hospitals interpret and implement utilization management plans and processes, reasons why it is prudent to have utilization management involved and aligned with a hospital's revenue cycle, ways that utilization management can help manage the cost and delivery of services at a hospital, how a utilization management department can facilitate and coordinate resources and services in a quality-conscious and cost-effective manner, and more...