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Videos, articles, and published research from the Face Rock team, covering tribal health funding structures, self-funded plan strategy, revenue cycle, and federal program access.
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Critical Pharmacy Program Strategies and Innovations
By Karen Knight
Karen Knight discusses how Face Rock helps tribes secure funding and navigate key programs, covering 105(l) leases, IHS/BIA partnerships, grants, and pharmacy program strategies.
Navigating Reimbursement Challenges in Tribal Health
By Karen Knight
Karen Knight, Partner at Face Rock, discusses the reimbursement landscape for tribal health organizations and how to structure programs to access available federal resources.
Improving Tribal Health Organizations' Revenue Cycle Management
By Karen Knight
Karen Knight walks through Face Rock's revenue cycle management approach : the processes, training, and analytics frameworks that help tribal health programs collect more from their existing operations.
TG&H On Air: Face Rock : Combating Medical Overbilling
By Bill Mattecheck
Bill Mattecheck, Co-Founder of Face Rock and National Director of Broker Relations at WellRithms, discusses the scale of medical overbilling in tribal health plans and four concrete strategies to identify and correct it.
Tribal Health Plans, COVID and CARES ACT
By Karen Knight & Tyler Moore
Karen Knight and Tyler Moore walk through the financial and operational impact of COVID-19 on tribal health plans, including how CARES Act provisions apply to self-funded tribal programs.
Coverage about Face Rock
Media features and awards recognizing Face Rock and our team.
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Inovalon and Face Rock Enterprises Collaborate to Care for Tribal Health Organizations
Inovalon and Face Rock announced a collaboration pairing Inovalon's national-scale data and revenue cycle technology with Face Rock's tribal health expertise to strengthen financial sustainability in underserved Tribal communities.
Read more →Globe Newswire
Karen Knight Named Inovalon Innovator of the Year
Face Rock Partner Karen Knight was recognized at Inovalon's 2024 Impact Awards for empowering tribal health organizations through innovative financial strategies, including helping one tribe generate over $500,000 in additional funds in six months.
Read more →Inovalon
Decreasing Costly Errors and Improving RCM Success for Tribal Health Organizations
Face Rock's approach to front- and back-end revenue cycle management for tribal health organizations, including reducing claims errors, improving eligibility checks, and building audit-ready documentation.
Read more →Articles by our team
Research, analysis, and perspectives written by Face Rock partners, published across tribal health and gaming industry outlets.
Tribal Gaming & Hospitality Magazine
Critical Pharmacy Program Strategies and Innovations
By Face Rock Tribal Health
How Face Rock helps tribes secure funding and navigate the programs that change the financial equation for tribal health, covering 105(l) leases, IHS/BIA partnerships, grants, and pharmacy program strategies.
Read more →Tribal Gaming & Hospitality Magazine
Four Ways to Combat Rampant Medical Over Billing At Your Tribal Casino
By Face Rock Tribal Health
Most tribal clients are overbilled millions of dollars every year without knowing it. Face Rock outlines four concrete strategies for identifying and correcting medical overbilling in tribal employer-sponsored health plans.
Read more →Tribal Gaming & Hospitality Magazine
From Cost Savings to Revenue Generation: Tribal Clinics Explained
By Face Rock Tribal Health
The advantages of becoming or creating a tribal clinic, the federal programs that change the financial equation, and a step-by-step overview of the enrollment and operational process.
Read more →Tribal Gaming & Hospitality Magazine
How To Improve Health Outcomes for Your Tribal Organization
By Face Rock Tribal Health
The funding structures and federal programs available to tribal health organizations, including clinic reimbursement rates, 105(l) lease structures, and 340B drug pricing, and how to access them.
Read more →Tribal Gaming & Hospitality Magazine
Tribal Employers Taking Control of their Healthcare
By Tyler Moore
No employer is immune to rising healthcare costs, but tribal employers have distinct advantages that often go unrealized. Tyler Moore outlines the self-funded plan strategies and federal program access points that can shift cost trajectory.
Read more →Raving Consulting
Top Five Benefits for Tribal Gaming to Work with Your Health Division
By Karen Knight
The financial and operational case for tribal gaming organizations to work more closely with their health divisions, covering the revenue programs, workforce implications, and structural advantages that integration enables.
Read more →Raving Consulting
Tribal Health Plans, COVID and CARES ACT
By Karen Knight & Tyler Moore
How the COVID pandemic is impacting health insurance plans for Native organizations, including how to evaluate current claims, project future costs, factor in treatment and diagnosis expenses, and position tribal health clinics as cost-management assets.
Read more →Raving Consulting
What Are the Financial Impacts of COVID-19 on a Self-Funded Health Plan's Budget?
By Tyler Moore
A practical financial analysis of how COVID-19 affected self-funded tribal health plan budgets, covering delayed utilization, CARES Act provisions, stop-loss implications, and what finance teams should model for the recovery period.
Read more →Raving Consulting
Families First Coronavirus Response Act: Three Questions That Could Impact Your Tribal Casino
By Tyler Moore
An early-pandemic breakdown of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act and the three provisions most likely to affect tribal gaming and health operations, with guidance on what program administrators needed to act on immediately.
Read more →Tribal Gaming & Hospitality Magazine
Tribal Gaming Life and Disability Insurance
By Tyler Moore
With tribal gaming health benefit programs costing tribes an average of $10,000 to $15,000 per employee per year, life and disability benefits often go underexamined. Tyler Moore covers the coverage structures tribal enterprises should be evaluating.
Read more →Raving Consulting
Catastrophic Illness, Your Tribe, Your Coverage
By Tyler Moore
An examination of how tribal self-funded health plans handle catastrophic illness events, what coverage structures exist, where gaps appear, and how tribal programs can better protect members facing high-cost diagnoses.
Read more →Tribal Gaming & Hospitality Magazine
Are You Maximizing Your Ability to Manage the Costs Associated with the Employer-Sponsored Health Plan?
By Tyler Moore
A breakdown of self-funded health plan nuances for tribal gaming organizations, covering how to evaluate plan performance, identify cost drivers, and use the structural advantages tribal employers have to manage healthcare spend.
Read more →Work with Face Rock
No cost to assess eligibility. Face Rock identifies what federal programs are available to your tribal health system and what it would take to access them.