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 non-coverage to the beneficiary?

Errors Impacting Cash Flow:Analyze the revenue-cycle errors that may occur in internal and external workflows that can impact a healthcare organization's 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 organization's cash flow?

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?

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?

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