Optimizing Revenue Cycle Management: Key Insights for Healthcare Leaders

   
Corporate Woods, 10801 Mastin Boulevard, Building #84, Suite 170, Overland Park, KS

Wednesday, July 16, 2025    
Time:  Registration 3:00 -networking, food/drink, speaker. End by 5:00pm  

         Speaker: Tracy Bird, FACMPE, CPC, CPMA, CPC-I

President/CEO Medical Practice Advisors, LLC

Optimizing Revenue Cycle Management:

Key Insights for Healthcare Leaders

In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare environment, effective revenue cycle management is critical for enhancing organization profitability and operational efficiency.

This presentation will provide leaders with actionable insights and strategies to ensure the practice’s RCM processes lead to improved financial performance and patient satisfaction.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the key components of the RCM process including patient registration including eligibility and verification of benefits, claim submission process, payment processing, denial management, A/R management, and reports.

2. Identify common revenue cycle challenges including common billing errors, delayed reimbursement, staff training, and compliance issues, and how to analyze the impact on revenue.

3. Implement metrics, benchmarks and data to identify trends to inform revised processes.

4. Evaluate existing software and other technology solutions to automate processes and improve efficiency.

Tracy has many years healthcare management experience in multiple specialties in the areas of practice operations, revenue cycle management, coding, documentation, staff training, communications, policy and procedure development, and workflow redesign. Her experience includes work with private practices, hospital based practices, rural health clinics, and FQHC’s She is an ACMPE Fellow with MGMA, a Certified Professional Coder (CPC), a Certified Professional Medical Auditor (CMPA), a Certified Evaluation and Management Auditor (CEMC) a Certified Professional Medical Coding Curriculum instructor (CPC-I). Tracy is co-founder and past president of the NE Kansas Chapter of AAPC, a past president of MGMA-GKC, is the ACMPE Forum Rep for Kansas, and Kansas City, and previously served on the Certification Commission for National MGMA. Tracy is also an independent practice management consultant with national MGMA. Tracy presents to many healthcare organizations on a variety of practice management and coding topics as well as being a National speaker for MGMA and AAPC.