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Collaborative Strategies Used To Reduce Billing Administrative Cost, Stella Fayomi-Olaleye
Collaborative Strategies Used To Reduce Billing Administrative Cost, Stella Fayomi-Olaleye
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Billing inefficiencies represent 80% of wasteful healthcare administrative costs that are projected to reach $45 billion by 2018. Potentially, a reduced billing administrative cost is estimated to yield an annual savings of $60 billion that could fund other societal needs such as jobs, wage increases, and education. Through the conceptual framework of iceberg change management model, this single case study explored collaborative strategies 3 healthcare billing managers in Dallas, Texas successfully used to reduce billing administrative costs. Data were collected through semistructured interviews and the review of company documents. Using Yin's procedure of examining, comparing, categorizing, and coding data, the …