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    3 Benefits of Healthcare Asset Tracking (+ How It Supports Practice Operations)

    May 20, 2022

    Your medical practice likely dedicates a portion of your budget to medical supplies, prescription medications, various pieces of equipment, and other pertinent materials needed to deliver great care to your patients. These healthcare assets are critical to your medical practice since working without them can burden your staff and slow everything ...

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    Should Your Practice Hire a Medical Scribe? Top 3 Things To Consider

    May 17, 2022

    In today’s ever-evolving world where medical practices are swamped with work, finding solutions that are effective at increasing operational efficiency is vital to success. Depending on which facet ...

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    Navigating Prior Authorizations: 5 Tips to Make Them Easier

    May 4, 2022

    As you and the staff of your medical practice know very well, there are countless steps, factors, and processes required to keep your operations running smoothly and efficiently in order to deliver ...

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    How to Write An Effective Patient Satisfaction Survey

    April 21, 2022

    Your practice depends on patients to come and see you for quality care; at the core of your practice’s operations is delivering great care to patients, both new and returning. But how can you gauge ...

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    Effective Revenue Cycle Management: How to Accept Cash Payments

    April 1, 2022

    Accepting cash payments is one effective way that practices can broaden their revenue cycle management strategy beyond traditional fee-for-service operations. For practices in the complementary and ...

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    Want to Maximize Your Revenue Cycle? 3 Reasons to Partner with a Medical Billing Firm

    March 14, 2022

    One of the key methods for ensuring the longevity of your medical practice is to maximize your revenue cycle. This cornerstone of your practice’s operations impacts every aspect from attracting new ...

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    What Is MACRA? How This Medicare Legislation Impacts Your Practice

    March 10, 2022

    When it comes to understanding Medicare and its relationship with your medical practice, there are countless acronyms and pieces of legislation to read up on. At NCG, we want to help decode these ...

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    HIPAA + HITECH: Maintain Compliance For Your Medical Practice

    March 7, 2022

    In today’s world, cyber threats are constantly targeting the healthcare industry in order to steal patient information and exploit sensitive data. In fact, healthcare data breaches cost US industries ...

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    How Better Patient Communication Leads to a Better Revenue Cycle

    January 27, 2022

    Every long-lasting relationship is built upon a solid foundation of communication; your medical practice’s relationship with your patients is no different! Patient communication is a tremendous ...

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    What is Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management?

    January 20, 2022

    The primary function of every medical practice is to provide quality care to its patients. However, every healthcare organization also has a critical secondary function—staying financially healthy. ...

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    Top 6 Questions to Ask a Medical Billing Service

    January 5, 2022

    Do you and your team feel overwhelmed by the medical billing and coding process? Tired of insurance claims being rejected or trying to keep up with new legal requirements? Perhaps it’s time to ...

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    What Is the Lifetime Value of a Patient? (+ Why It Matters To Your Medical Practice)

    December 21, 2021

    Do you know how much your patients are individually, or as a whole, contributing to your revenue cycle? On the other hand, are you aware of how much your medical practice is spending to retain or ...

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    What Is Healthcare Consumerism? 5 Ways to Attract and Retain the Modern Patient

    October 20, 2021

    NRC Health’s 2017 study revealed that seven in 10 consumers feel that they are now personally responsible for managing their health. A major factor behind this shift is cost, and consumers are ...

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