Medical Billing News

    Patient Retention Strategies: 3 Ways to Keep Patients Coming Back

    May 13, 2020

    Building a successful medical practice can be a daunting challenge due to the unique regulatory environment of the healthcare field. At its core, however, a medical practice faces the same demands as any other business. You must first raise awareness to attract customers and then deliver outstanding service to keep them coming back. That’s why ...

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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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    Best Practices for Boosting Clean Claim Ratios

    March 5, 2020

    Your practice’s clean claim ratio is the average number of claims paid upon the first submission. Every provider would love to reach a percentage above 95, but it’s not really the number that ...

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    NCG Medical: Experts in Your Practice Management Software

    January 25, 2019

    At NCG Medical, our mission is to provide expert medical billing services that integrate seamlessly into your current practice management software or EHR. That’s why our team of in-house experts have ...

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    Coding Abuse: Avoiding Enforcement Actions With Common Sense Protections

    November 6, 2018

    Submitting “clean” claims is something we emphasize here on the blog all the time – mostly in the context of ensuring forms and fields are filled out clearly for processing. But there’s another ...

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    Implementing a New Medical Practice Solution? 3 Keys to Success

    October 30, 2018

    Has your organization decided to swap out your existing software stack for a smarter toolset? Congratulations – reaching consensus for a new solution is no easy feat (and often takes far longer than ...

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    What Type of Medical Billing Firm Do You Need?

    October 23, 2018

    When they’ve never used a medical billing firm before, doctors and practice managers can be hesitant to outsource revenue cycle management. Often, it’s an issue of perception. When billing operations ...

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    How Can Private Patient Advocates Help Providers' Performance?

    October 9, 2018

    It was 2007 when US News first called private patient advocacy an “ahead-of-the-curve” career path serving a “huge unmet need.” More than a decade later, the role private patient advocates play in ...

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    Tips on Making Prior Authorizations a Smaller Part of Your Day

    September 25, 2018

    Prior authorizations are one of the most time-consuming, onerous aspects of the fee-for-service healthcare system. Just as doctors: AMA research shows that 84% of physicians consider the burden of ...

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    Pursuing the Right Software Set-Up to Get Your Practice Paid Quickly

    September 11, 2018

    Reaching the outcomes you want, in all walks of life, requires using the right tools. But in the medical practice environment, it can be hard to know if your solutions are hindering your success. ...

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