Medical Billing News

    Healthcare Technology Leads to Better Patient-Provider Relationship

    March 4, 2022

    A 2020 study asked, “If your doctor went out of business today, how much—or how little—would you care?” A troubling 55% of people responded that it would be inconvenient, but that they already didn’t have a deep relationship with their provider; 27% said they would be glad because they wanted a different provider anyway. If you’re part of a ...

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    Best Practices For Improving HCC Coding Accuracy for Value-Based Payments

    August 30, 2021

    As enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans increases, healthcare organizations need to be able to anticipate future healthcare financial resources and predict appropriate reimbursement for physicians. ...

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    Best Practices for Minimizing Your Medical Practice's Cybersecurity Risks

    July 28, 2021

    With so many aspects of the medical field moving to a virtual telemedicine realm, cybersecurity protocols for your medical practice are more important now than ever before. Your medical practice ...

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    Net Collection Rate in Medical Billing: Understanding Your Practice’s Most Important Metric

    February 26, 2021

    For physician practices and their medical billing firms, the net collection rate has always been a metric with huge implications for financial success. But in today’s healthcare environment, it’s ...

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    How to Embrace 'Financial Stewardship' in the New Era of Healthcare

    November 6, 2020

    In the day-to-day management of medical practices, the most critical concern is (and always will be) patient care. But in the evolving landscape of U.S. healthcare and medical billing services, ...

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    The Link Between Patient Engagement & Reimbursement

    October 13, 2020

    Especially in the increasingly value-based landscape of medical billing, boosting patient engagement levels is a priority of most modern medical practices. But even for those organizations that have ...

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    Your 2020 Guide to MACRA

    May 4, 2020

    In the increasingly value-based world of healthcare, providers’ success will hinge on their quality of service – not their fees and volume. The latest driver of the “value-first” evolution is the ...

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    No More No-Shows! Here's How to Promote Appointment Adherence

    March 18, 2020

    It may seem hard to believe, but missed appointments can be the top driver of lost revenue for many medical practices. Hard data on no-shows is hard to come by, but a study by the American ...

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    The Top 3 Medical Billing Issues to Watch in 2020

    March 16, 2020

    With the new year underway, there remains a multitude of question marks for medical billers and other members of the U.S. healthcare system. As 2020 marches onward, organizations need to continually ...

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    3 High-Cost Healthcare Trends to Watch Out For in 2020

    March 9, 2020

    According to the latest projections from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), U.S. health spending will grow by 5.5 percent for 2018-2027. That’s not necessarily directly due to ...

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    Risk Adjustment: Could Your Coding Strategy Be Hurting Your Practice?

    October 17, 2017

    As the healthcare industry moves away from the traditional fee-for-service model and over to an increasingly value-based landscape, the role of coding is becoming more important than ever. And you ...

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    5 Reasons Why a Medical Billing Firm is Your Practice’s Best Ally

    October 10, 2017

    As for any thriving business, your in-house people are your practice’s best asset. But no matter how talented and capable your personnel may be, they’re not enough to help your medical office ...

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    Medical Debt Reality Check: Unpacking New Findings on Patient Responsibility

    July 25, 2017

    Inside almost any medical practice, patient collections are an ever-present concern. Since the priority of collecting every dollar from non-paying patients can consume the day-to-day efforts of ...

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