Blue Eagle Consulting, Inc.

There is a familiar rhythm to a MEDITECH project. Months of building, testing, training, and command center intensity lead to go-live, followed by a stabilization period. Then the consultants leave, and the project team goes back to their day jobs. https://lnkd.in/e6YJfFEe

Every healthcare organization treats the new fiscal year like a clean slate. New capital, new priorities, new project list. What gets lost in that reset is everything the current year already paid for and never finished activating. https://lnkd.in/eMi4SXpT

Most health plans are treating the CMS-0057 prior authorization deadline as an IT build. The hard part is the utilization management work behind the API. The FHIR interface only transports decisions. Your coverage rules, clinical criteria, and reviewer workflows are what actually have to meet the 2027 requirements. Here is what needs to be ready before the deadline.

Just published: The August Revenue Cycle Audit: What to Fix Before Year-End. August feels early to think about year-end revenue. That is exactly why it is the right time. You are close enough to December to see the problems coming, and far enough out to actually fix them before they become permanent. The financial pressure is real. Initial claim denial rates climbed to 11.8 percent in 2024, up from 10.2 percent a few years earlier (Kodiak Solutions, via Becker's). And roughly 90 percent of those denials are preventable, with nearly half tracing back to front-end steps like registration, eligibility, and prior authorization (HFMA). The denial lands on the billing team, but the breakdown usually happened weeks earlier. The blog breaks down what a real revenue cycle audit looks at, why the right people need to be in the room, and how your EHR configuration quietly shapes billing performance across Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner), MEDITECH, and every major platform. Most importantly, it covers how to build a year-end action plan that actually gets done before December 31st. Read the blog: https://bit.ly/3TDHXnM #RevenueCycle #HealthcareIT #RCM #EHROptimization #Epic #MEDITECH #BlueEagleConsulting

New Blog: Go-Live Countdown: The Training Gaps That Cause Day-One Disasters Every go-live comes with a countdown. Months of planning, testing, and training build toward a single day, and for a lot of organizations it does not go the way they expected. Not because the system failed, but because the people were not fully ready. Only 38 percent of organizations say their recent EHR implementation hit the mark (KLAS Research), and almost always the preparation problem lives in the training program. Our newest blog counts down the five gaps that quietly set up a rough launch: training scheduled too far from go-live, generic content that ignores real workflows, no hands-on practice time, Super Users who are not ready to support, and no plan for when things go wrong. Each one is predictable. Each one is preventable with enough lead time. Read the blog: https://bit.ly/4hHOub9 #TrainingAndActivation #GoLiveSupport #EHRImplementation #HealthcareIT #BlueEagleConsulting

If someone asks your staff whether the EHR is functioning, most of them will say yes. The system is up. Patients are getting care. Claims are going out. From a 30,000-foot view, everything looks operational. But look a little closer. Are nurses using spreadsheets alongside the EHR to track information the system should be capturing? Are billers finding the same charge codes missing from the same encounter types every week? Are reports that should take two minutes actually taking twenty? https://lnkd.in/e9MpS82m