Muncie, Ind., – (Feb. 2009)  In the midst of a turbulent economic environment, Ontario Systems, LLC, a provider of revenue-cycle management services and software for the healthcare industry, is pleased to announce the launch of a free webinar series on how to recapture revenue and optimize its management.

Combating what experts now call “Healthcare’s Perfect Storm,” Ontario’s strategic seminars give financial managers and others new insight on weathering this “storm,” considering the convergent philosophical, economic, political, and operational forces, which now challenge operating revenue and profits.

Renowned health care technology visionary and author, Wil Davis of Ontario Systems, launches the series February 26, coaching executives and providers on business leadership skills, including how to sustain balance sheets.  The eight-part series continues every month until Fall 2009 with the series concluding on “Management by Exception,” which helps participants to identify new ways to reduce costs and increase efficiency by touching only accounts that present exceptions to business rules and processes.

Each 2009 series webinar will focus on a different topic in the critical arena of revenue cycle management:  

• Business Leadership, February 26, Wil Davis (Ontario Systems): Examine the initiatives healthcare providers can implement to maintain sustainable balance sheets.

• Strategic “Must Wins,” March 12, David Briele, PwC: Discover the key functions every business office must execute well to maintain financial health and to sustain your organizational mission.

• Key Performance Indicators, April 9, Suzanne Lestina, HFMA: Learn the indicators to help you achieve outstanding performance metrics in revenue-cycle management and patient care.

• Uncompensated Care: What Do We Do? May 14, (Speaker TBA):  Should patient care depend on government bailouts? Should we increase write-offs for charity and bad debt?

• Consumer-Directed Healthcare  June 11,  (Speaker TBA)  Hear from one of the country’s leading experts on consumer-directed healthcare and what it will mean to your revenue cycle and your patient-care mission.

• A Holistic Approach to the Revenue Cycle: Improving the Patient Experience, July 9, (Speaker TBA): If you can diagnose your patients’ financial situation before providing care, you can improve the patient experience and improve the efficiency of the business office.

• Patient-Friendly Billing, September 10, (Speaker TBA): Many patients are not prepared for the expense of their care.  Learn how to make the business office part of patient care.

• Management by Exception,  October 8,  (Speaker TBA) Learn to reduce cost and increase efficiency by touching only accounts that present exceptions to your business rules and processes.

For more information or to sign up for any of these free webinar series, please visit http://www.ontariosystems.com/webinar/healthcare.php

About Ontario Systems, LLC

Founded in 1980, Ontario Systems, LLC, is a provider of revenue-cycle-management and collections-management services to the healthcare and debt-collection industries.  Ontario Systems’ customers are among nation's top 100 hospitals and health centers.  And more than 55,000 representatives in more than 500 locations – including nine of the top 10 collections firms in the industry – use Ontario Systems services and software. For more information, please visit http://www.ontariosystems.com or call 800-283-3227.

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