Assess the impact of internal and external revenue-cycle workflows on strategic planning and financial management and identify front-end, middle, and back-end revenue-cycle processes within operational workflows.

_{Create an analysis report to assess an organizations internal workflows from the context of improving cash flow and financial strength.}

Specifically, address the following criteria:

1. Patient Registration: Analyze the significance of the steps in the operational workflow for registering a patient prior to a diagnostic procedure. Consider the following questions to guide your response:
   • What is the significance of the patient financial responsibility agreement?
   • When should the provider present an advance beneficiary notification of noncoverage to the beneficiary?
2. Errors Impacting Cash Flow: Analyze the revenue-cycle errors that may occur in internal and external workflows that can impact a healthcare organizations cash flow and financial strength. Consider the following questions to guide your response:
   • What errors can occur that will impact revenue integrity?
   • How do these errors affect the organizations cash flow?
3. Prevention of Errors: Explain how the errors you described can be prevented. Consider the following questions to guide your response:
   • What changes in the process will help prevent these errors?
   • What tools or systems can you use to prevent these errors?
4. Workflow Improvements: Recommend at least two workflow process improvements across the front-end, middle, and back-end revenue-cycle processes. These workflow improvements must not be directly related to the error-prevention recommendations you provided. Consider the following questions to guide your response:
   • What improvements can you recommend for internal processes?
   • What improvements can you recommend for external processes?

All the claims in your deliverable should be evidence based. Your citations should be from your independent search for evidence (not from the textbook or module resources) of credible sources and be current within the last five years.

Please ensure that to cite a minimum of two sources, at least one of which should be separate from your own research. Please do not provide any information without references or citations. If you do, I will report negatively.