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HHS investigation says poor records can signal Medicare fraud. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is sounding the alarm on inconsistency in practitioners’ records: clean up inaccuracies or face ...

Meaningful Use audits are happening and NCG wants you to be prepared and prevent your practice for being at risk of losing EHR meaningful use incentive money. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

When waving good-bye to a patient, what do you see walking out the door? Is it money? Well, your money and hard-earned time is often leaving with the patient if your office is not taking the proper ...

Your time and your staff’s time are valuable. But your practice is wasting everyone’s time if you’re treating patients prior to checking on their insurance eligibility and coverage. In days gone by, ...

Most practices are unprepared: but there is still time to act. Sometimes, being in the majority is bad. According to recent financial audits completed by NCG Medical, nine out of 10 physician offices ...

Living beyond 90 is great when it comes to patient age, but on the balance sheet, bills older than 90 days can mean financial stress for your practice. Over the past year, NCG Medical has conducted ...

With patient self-pay of deductibles already difficult for doctors to collect, and health plan deductibles continuing to rise the amount you collect from a patient is important. From 2009 to 2011, ...

More than 100 medical practitioners seek NCG Medical’s expertise to maximize their bottom line. Orlando, Fla. – NCG Medical (http://www.ncgmedical.com/), a leader in practice management and ...

With new economic realities and the ever-changing healthcare reform, the trend of consolidation in health care has begun transforming the practice of medicine. According to estimates from Accenture, ...

NCG Medical would like to give primary doctors in Florida a heads up; with healthcare reform Medicaid doctors will now get paid at higher Medicare rates. In a recent article published in the Miami ...

A recent study released in the Annals of Internal Medicine says Electronic Health Records (EHRs) improve both care and overall outcomes for patients with diabetes. The study reported that EHRs helped ...

With the Iraq War officially ended and Afghanistan scheduled to pull back by 2014, scores of service members are beginning to head home. In an article in the August edition of Healthcare IT News, ...