Foxborough, Massachusetts, January 11, 2010…ClaimTrust, a leading provider of revenue cycle tools and services for hospitals, today announced that Karen Bowden, president of its consulting services, will be presenting a case study at the Massachusetts-Rhode Island Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) seminar, Season for Change: Tackling the Future for Healthcare Finance, on January 22.

Bowden will co-present a case study titled RAC – Developing Successful Appeal Strategies, A Case Study with a customer of ClaimTrust. The presentation will explain how organizations can develop and deploy successful Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) appeal strategies based on lessons learned during the RAC demonstration phase. Bowden will explain how one hospital successfully appealed RAC audits using strategies and tactics including: developing case management/utilization review protocols, defining admission policies and learning how to overturn debridement coding issues.

Bowden is a regular speaker at Massachusetts Hospital Association, HFMA chapters and Massachusetts Association of Patient Account Management (MAPAM). During her 25 years of hospital administrative experience, Bowden managed fiscal and clinical operations in large academic teaching facilities in Pittsburgh and Boston. She has developed and implemented denial management systems to track, report, prevent and appeal denied claims. Expert knowledge of payor systems gives Bowden and ClaimTrust the leading edge in implementing successful strategies that decrease denied claims and increase net revenue.

The HFMA seminar will offer a full day of updates on today’s most pressing healthcare revenue cycle topics and will include an expert panel on healthcare reform. Bowden’s case study presentation will be featured as part of HFMA’s “Government Track” breakout session on January 22, 2010, at Gillette Stadium Clubhouse in Foxborough, Mass.

About ClaimTrust
ClaimTrust focuses exclusively on hospital revenue cycle tools. That singleness of purpose enables it to deliver the industry’s most effective mix of software and services designed to ensure that hospitals collect more of the revenue they are entitled to as fast as possible. The ClaimTrust InSight Revenue Cycle Solution is a suite of Web-based products that target the key revenue cycle inflection points that have the greatest impact on the bottom line. ClaimTrust provides the industry’s most frequently updated and deepest edit library; the ability to find new revenue from unbilled charges; a denials analysis engine which identifies trends and rules to generate edits that no other vendors has; and true all-payor support.

About HFMA
HFMA is the nation's leading membership organization for healthcare financial management executives and leaders. More than 35,000 members—ranging from CFOs to controllers to accountants—consider HFMA a respected thought leader on top trends and issues facing the healthcare industry. HFMA members can be found in all areas of the healthcare system, including hospitals, managed care organizations, physician practices, accounting firms, and insurance companies. At the chapter, regional, and national level, HFMA helps healthcare finance professionals meet the challenges of the modern healthcare environment by:

• Providing education, analysis, and guidance.
• Building and supporting coalitions with other healthcare associations to ensure accurate representation of the healthcare finance profession.
• Educating a broad spectrum of key industry decision makers on the intricacies and realities of maintaining fiscally healthy healthcare organizations.
• Working with a broad cross-section of stakeholders to improve the healthcare industry by identifying and bridging gaps in knowledge, best practices, and standards.