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Interim HIM Services to Relieve HIM Pain

Nearterm Interim Health Information Management (HIM) services can make your HIM pain go away.

Our highly experienced Interim HIM management professionals are interim careerists, meaning they prefer to work on an interim basis and have developed the skill sets “in the trenches of management” to do so. When placed in a new work environment, can rapidly assimilate new business values, operating objectives and culture. They can quickly formulate and implement proven action plans.

Here are some the pains for which our Interim HIM Managers and Leaders can offer relief.

Leadership Loss

The pain: “Our current leadership gap can affect overall RCM performance. We need an interim solution now until we find a permanent replacement.”

Nearterm Interim HIM Managers available:

  • Director of Health Information Management (HIM)
  • Medical Records / HIM Manager and Supervisor
  • Director, Manager, Supervisor of Coding
  • HIM Operations Manager and Supervisor

Coding Backlog

The pain: “We are behind in coding and it is impacting Cash Flow. We just need to catch up ASAP.”

Nearterm HIM/Medical coding professionals for backlog relief, able to work on-site or remote:

  • Managed Medical Coders
  • HIM Project Staffing managed by a Nearterm Partner
  • EMR/EHR Project Manager / Analyst
  • ICD-10 Project Manager / Analyst

Denials Too High

The pain: “Increasing denials are affecting accounts receivable forecasts. Can you help us with the difficult denials?”

Nearterm offers talented professionals prepared to resolve the tough denials while your staff continues to do the easy ones in order to minimize impact on cash flow:

  • Interim Medical Coding Auditor
  • HIM Project staffing to clean-up the difficult denials. Managed by a Nearterm partner
  • ICD-10 Project Manager
  • CDI Liaison / Specialist

EMR/EHR Implementation behind Schedule

The pain; “We need a manager to identify the causes for delays and implement solutions. Delays are costing us too much.”

Nearterm professionals deliver objective analysis, useful action plans and implementation assistance:

  • EMR/EHR Project Manager
  • Operation Analyst
  • Imlementation Coordinator

Overall HIM Department Performance Needs to Be Improved

The pain: “How can we optimize performance of the HIM department in general?”

Nearterm Leader/Manager specialists can do a performance check-up and recommend (and even implement) solutions to get the HIM department humming:

  • Interim HIM Consultant

For HIM pain relief, give us a call or send us an email. We do house calls.

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See also: Health Information Management (HIM) Services & Careers