Revenue Cycle Management Best Practices Guide

This guide provides rural hospital executive and management teams with generally accepted best practice concepts in revenue cycle management so that they may consider opportunities for performance improvement within their own hospitals and individual departments. It is also designed to assist State Offices of Rural Health directors and Flex Program coordinators in gaining a better understanding of the revenue cycle best practices so that they may develop educational trainings to further assist rural hospitals with performance improvement.

Additional revenue cycle resources can be found at the links below. Contact drchsd-program@ruralcenter.org with any questions. 

Revenue Cycle Management Best Practices Guide Updated July 2023.pdf (7.01 MB) , Revenue Cycle Management Best Practices Check List August 2023.pdf (893.43 KB)

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