Medical Billing News

How committed is your team to making your practice the best it can be? From your medical billing department to your clinical staff to your front desk reps, everyone involved in day-to-day business ...

We can’t stress it enough: checking a patient’s insurance in advance of each and every encounter is the number one way to avoid medical billing issues. So why do so many practices neglect them? To be ...

It’s not just ICD-10 that’s requiring medical billing and coding to get a lot more specific! In August, Medicare made it clear to providers that they recognized the inadequacies of the 59 modifier ...

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 ...

One of the most frustrating aspects of medical billing and practice management is patient collections. It’s a touchy situation – one in which you need to be firm in your approach but sensitive to the ...

Medical practices are under pressure from so many formidable factors – dwindling reimbursements, crammed schedules, changing healthcare laws and regulatory requirements – that sometimes even the ...

Your practice would (hopefully) never deliberately overcharge patients, but you may be guilty of doing it nonetheless. Upcoding – the practice of coding and thereby billing at a higher level of ...

Are you failing to spot the top risks to your revenue? With payer reimbursements continuing to decline, providers and medical practice managers know that they can’t afford to let revenue slip through ...

Your practice does a lot for your patients’ physical health, but are you doing anything for their financial health? Medical billing can cause a lot of headaches for patients, especially if they feel ...

As your practice’s year comes to a close, now is the time to review your financial performance and consider the factors that impacted your revenue – including your payer contracts. If your ...

Medical billing services typically know how to dodge the manual errors, timing issues, and outright mistakes that frequently cause claim denials. (Denials due to ineligibility, missed filing ...

As the end of the calendar year approaches, many practices perform self-audits to determine areas where their practice management systems and processes can improve. Billing and compliance roles are ...