Nashville Area Indian Health Service 2011 Annual Report

PRIORITY FOUR: MAKE ALL OUR WORK ACCOUNTABLE, TRANSPARENT, FAIR AND INCLUSIVE.
Third Party Collections
One-hundred percent of service units reported data on third party collections
using the Office of Resource Access and Partnerships (ORAP) on-line
reporting tool. Currently, there are two corrective actions in place pertaining
to the ORAP online reporting tool which will address all reported deficiencies.
Compliance within the time frames as stated in the Accounts Receivable
(A/R) policy will be realized.
Budget Management
The Nashville Area makes timely payments to Tribes and vendors to ensure
the support and delivery of health care. Quarterly budget meetings with
Service Unit Directors and Division Directors were held to ensure that all
were staying within budget. Discoverer reports were used to determine which
of the unliquidated documents were valid, and staff took appropriate actions
to close out or cancel any open documents. The Nashville Area has reduced
the number of journal vouchers (JV) processed in FY 2011 by 88% by
utilizing the G-Batch process, in efforts to ensure exceptional audit reports.
For cash reconciliation, the number of reconciled schedules increased by
two percent from the end of FY 2010, and unreconciled schedules decreased
by two percent due to a strong focus on monthly reconciliations.
Nashville Area Third Party Collections
Medicaid $511,682
FY 2011
Medicare 88,106
Private Insurance & Other 99,732
Medicaid $436,983
FY 2010
Medicare 89,284
Private Insurance & Other 123,467
The chart above shows an overall increase in Third Party Collections (such as from Medicaid, Medicare and private insurance) for the Nashville
Area from FY 2010 to FY 2011.
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