Meet Your Expert
Owen is a principal of Owen Dahl Consulting, in The Woodlands, Texas. He has 53 years of experience in consulting, running a medical billing service and managing medical practices. He was also a hospital administrator. Owen speaks across the country on medical practice issues related to strategic planning, Lean and Six Sigma, culture, human resource management and the revenue cycle.
He is an adjunct professor at the University of New Orleans, the author of Think Business – Medical practice quality, efficiency and profit, contributing author of the popular book Lean Six Sigma for the Medical Practice and recently published Integration of Behavioral Health Into Medical Homes: A Rapid Implementation Guide. Owen received his Bachelor’s degree in Hospital Administration at Concordia College, Moorhead, MN and his Master’s from the University of Northern Colorado. He recently achieved his Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt through Villanova University. He served in the USAF.
Training Sessions by Owen Dahl
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URGENT: Effective June 30th, you are required to utilize the new Medicare ABN form to be compliant. Medicare has made it clear that it is paying close attention to when and how you have your patients sign an Advanced Beneficiary Notice (ABN). Specifically, whether you utilize the mandatory or voluntary Medicare ABN form correctly or not. Get it wrong, and […]
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Even innocent mistakes when billing for patients with both Medicare and Medicaid coverage can quickly lead to a costly legal nightmare for your practice. There is a fine line between getting it right or violating the complex federal and state regulations you are required to comply with. Nearly 20% of Medicare beneficiaries also have Medicaid coverage. Meaning that dual-eligible claims […]
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Bringing in the reimbursement your practice has earned should be pretty straightforward, right? Well, think again. To get paid, there are about a million hoops you must jump through. And the consequences of missing even one of these hoops range between leaving money uncollected to getting hit with massive violation penalties. The good news is that there are proven tactics […]
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Even slight changes in how you manage your medical billing vendor relationship can seriously increase your claims’ reimbursement and decrease your financial and legal risk. This is where practice management expert and consultant, Owen Dahl, LFACHE, CHBC, LSSMBB, can help. During this online training, Owen will show you exactly how to more successfully work with an outsource medical billing service […]
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