Your "On Ramp" from FFS to VBC

Our end-to-end suite of healthcare consulting solutions helps acute and post-acute organizations achieve clinical, financial, and operational excellence. Our outcomes include reduction in Readmissions, Denials, and Length of Stay.

End to End Healthcare Consulting Solutions

Tackle your toughest challenges, improve quality and outcomes, adapt to value-based care, and achieve long-term success with our end-to-end suite of healthcare consulting solutions.

HCIT Consulting Services

We specialize in the following key areas of consulting services

Your healthcare organization deserves optimized processes that allow you to focus on delivering high-quality care that align with your various reimbursement models. Our team helps clients across the continuum of care operationalize VBC initiatives, including program development, analytics strategy, vendor selection, as well as data and analytics support. We excel at transforming and streamlining processes for better financial, care quality, and operational outcomes.

Benefits Realization

IT Benefits Realization / Return on Investment The Healthcare industry is struggling to justify the huge investments in IT and has only begun to demonstrate return on investment resulting in substantial operational savings, future cost avoidance, new revenue, and qualitative benefits. Our team of consultants has a proven methodology for realizing benefits from investments in IT-led projects from years of documenting and communicating ROI that is validated and sustainable.

Case Management Optimization

We partner with case management departments to optimize their workflows, processes, and outcomes and deliver quantifiable results that support value-based care.

Data and Analytics

We help provider organizations leverage their IT investments by capturing and analyzing data to drive performance improvement, targeted interventions, and better decision making.

Education and Training

We provide relevant and timely education and training to help our clients achieve best practice adherence, process standardization, and regulatory compliance in the ever-changing healthcare environment.

Interdisciplinary Rounds

Our proven methodology and tools improve communication, coordination, utilization review, and categorical segmentation of patients while maximizing clinical and financial outcomes.

Patient Experience

Through collaboration with stakeholders across the care continuum, we develop patient-centered programs that support a provider organization’s efforts to improve patient experience and outcomes.

Post-Acute Optimization

We help skilled nursing facilities develop and implement targeted strategies for clinical, financial, and operational optimization so they can thrive in today’s healthcare marketplace.

Transformation

Serving as executive facilitators, guides, and subject matter experts, we support healthcare executive teams and augment internal resources to effectively implement complex strategic initiatives.

Value-Based Care

We support the transition to value-based care by developing, implementing, and optimizing a comprehensive action plan that delivers on quality and performance measures.

Vendor services

We partner with IT vendors to ensure the successful implementation and utilization of their healthcare solutions through our technology-enabled process improvement services. Vendors can leverage our subject matter expertise to successfully align their solutions with current market needs for operational transformation.

Our Client-Centered Approach

The client-centric approach has enormous business value. Step outside your business and look through customers’ eyes to see how to resolve business challenges that keep you up at night. While every sector and industry is different there are some common benefits of client-centricity that apply to almost every organization.

Best Practices To Improve Clinical Outcomes

Competing in today’s complex and evolving healthcare environment is an ongoing challenge. Success hinges on an organization’s ability to demonstrate positive outcomes while lowering costs. We help healthcare organizations develop and implement targeted strategies for clinical, financial, and operational optimization.

Our Client-Centered Approach

People

The HCIT consultants possess a unique approach to assess, analyze and implement change to meet our clients goals.

Process

We help our clients overcome clinical, financial, and operational difficulties. We excel at identifying challenges to transform and streamline processes for better overall outcomes.​

Technology

We provide a tailored approach to assess, analyze, and implement best-practices that deliver bottom-line results to maximize efficiency and ensure sustainability.  ​

Data

We provide Data and Analytics analysis to determine if you are colecting the data you need for operations. We will design a roadmap to support “insights to action”.

Our Outcomes

  • Standardized and streamlined workflow to 125 inpatient and post-acute facilities.
  • Utilization Management optimization resulting in 10% reduction in LOS, Readmission, Denials and Excess Days in less than 3 months.
  • 83% reduction in dialysis referral processing time.
  • Gap analysis and ROI resulting in $1,000,000 saved annually in productivity for a $15K interface.
  • Discharge Planning process optimization increased referrals from 40,000/year to over 550,000 referrals/year.
  • Streamlined and consolidated the number of ambulatory case management programs by 68%.
  • Decreased legacy system documentation types by 58% with new process implementation.
  • Reduced enterprise and local reports by 60%.

Increase monthly revenue by $2.4M with optimized prior authorization process improvement.

Identified $2.3M in annual lost revenue and opportunity to increase referrals by 375%.

Discharge Planning software assessment, redesign and reimplementation with an annual savings of $2.3M per year.

Eliminated over 1.2M pieces of paper, and removed the need for offsite storage.

Increased Discharge Planning referrals by 800%.

Process design and CM/DM solution implementation for national medical group, managing over 1.5M patient lives with 850+ CM staff.

Consolidated 150+ programs to 40 programs, 65 clinical processes optimized to 10.

Standardized and streamlined workflow to 125 inpatient and post-acute facilities.

Utilization Management optimization resulting in 10% reduction in LOS, Readmission, Denials and Excess Days in less than 3 months.

83% reduction in dialysis referral processing time.

Gap analysis and ROI resulting in $1,000,000 saved annually in productivity for a $15K interface.

Discharge Planning process optimization increased referrals from 40,000/year to over 550,000 referrals/year.

Streamlined and consolidated the number of ambulatory case management programs by 68%.

Decreased legacy system documentation types by 58% with new process implementation.

Reduced enterprise and local reports by 60%.

Best Practices To Improve Clinical Outcomes

HCIT Consulting Has Online Assessments Available To Determine Risk And Opportunity For Acute Hospital Case Management Departments, CDI Departments, And SNF Referral Management Processes. Determine Your General Risk And Outcome Improvement Opportunities Within Your Case Management Department Today!

Our Clients and Partners

Client Testimonials

And that's just a few

“The HCIT Consultant was a pleasure to work with. She went above and beyond to deliver excellent client services in timely and professional manner. Her work product was some of the best I have seen and her knowledge of case management and ways to improve current systems and processes, second to none.”

Joan G. Dentler President & CEO of Avanza Healthcare Strategies

“The HCIT Consultants helped us completely modify our case management philosophy toward planning the patient discharge at the point of admission helping us improve patient flow to reduce our overall length of stay. This process change had a very positive impact on reducing our cost to deliver care and generate much needed bed capacity.”

Edward D. Ricks MHA,CHCIO of Beaufort Memorial Hospital

“HCIT Consulting has been a great resource for our clients to optimize their Allscripts utilization and case management process for continued client satisfaction with our products.”

David Borowski LCSW, Area Vice President for Allscripts/CarePort

“HCIT Consulting has been an invaluable resource to both our regional and national organizations to streamline the patient flow process and capture significant efficiencies within the care coordination areas while implementing our new Case Management solution. This has enabled us to significantly reduce costs, while optimizing the patient outcomes across multiple, diverse populations. HCIT has been integral in helping us redesign and standardize our workflow and content in the outpatient setting and to 125+ inpatient hospitals and skilled nursing facilities. From helping integrate our inpatient care plans with our outpatient EHR to transforming and blue printing our enterprise warehouse and applications reporting, Meredith has helped us achieve many of our project and outcomes goals.”

Sarah Richardson CIO of DaVita Medical Group

HCIT Consulting was an amazing asset to have as we rolled out a completely new platform to replace an outdated legacy system. HCIT helped facilitate appropriate feedback from all markets to ensure standardization and to maximize efficiencies. Too often solutions are built in a vacuum but the Consultant ensured all blind spots were identified and communicated across multiple service lanes and markets.

Dr. Farshid Kazi Medical Director of Population Health and High Risk Programs at Optum
(formerly DaVita Medical Group)

    Our Client Case Studies

    Our client case studies describe in-depth the healthcare challenges our clients faced and how partnering with HCIT Consulting helped these clients improve processes and achieve optimal outcomes.

    Admissions and Pre-Authorization

    Nationally ranked health system streamlines pre-authorizations and gains $2.4M in new monthly revenue.

    Case Management Redesign with IT Implementation

    Large medical group redesigns case management processes and reduces the number of programs by 68% and reports by 60%.

    Discharge Planning and Referral Management

    Large health system optimizes discharge planning and referral management processes and saves $600K in annual productivity.

    Outpatient Dialysis Referral Management

    One of the top fifteen health systems in the US saves $1.3M with dialysis referral management improvement.

    Patient Throughput and Care Transitions

    Large health system improves surgical and procedural case throughput and reduces denials from $1.5M to 25K.

    Patient Throughput and Referral Management

    Large post-acute care organization streamlines processes to reduce length of stay.

    System Selection for Block Time Scheduling

    Large health system automates Block Time Scheduling in the OR to improve patient throughput.

    System Selection for Operational Command Center

    Not-for-profit health system automates Operational Command Center to improve throughput and reduce denials.

    System Selection for Risk Based Coding

    Academic medical center automates the risk-based coding process for Medicaid and Medicare patients to improve outcomes.

    Transitions of Care

    Integrated health system to reduce hospital readmissions for patients with advanced renal disease.

    Value-Based Care Program Development

    Leading home care provider improves outcomes through Value-Based Care initiatives.

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