Medical Billing News

When it comes to hot-button healthcare issues, the problematic prevalence of balance billing is near the top of the list. Consumers have been decrying the practice for decades – and regulators are ...

When a practice considers outsourcing its medical billing function, there are plenty of options to choose from. You can work with a large organization, a small billing company, a technology provider, ...

With October 1, 2016 now behind us, we’re living in a new “ICD-10-only” era. Even though the updated diagnostic code set became the norm in fall 2015, the CMS’ one-year grace period (in which ...

At NCG Medical Billing, we’re committed to helping our customers achieve high first-pass resolve rates and prompt payments on their claims. But we’re far from the only entity involved in the revenue ...

The “first do no harm” dictum for doctors has at least one exception: the wellness of their patients’ finances. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the least welcome surprise patients face in the ...

Medical office professionals, healthcare technology providers, and medical billing companies alike were eagerly awaiting the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’) latest announcement ...

The Meaningful Use program – designed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to speed up adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) – is not everyone’s favorite initiative. But ...