If you’re going to have a successful healthcare practice, the right practice management system is going to play a critical role in that success. While every practice has its own strengths, weaknesses, and goals, there are some features that should… Read More
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Substance Abuse Billing Errors That Can Be Made
Insurance hasn’t always covered rehab and substance abuse treatments, but patients are benefiting greatly today since this is now not the case. However, just because treatments such as these are capable of being billed, they won’t necessarily get paid. If… Read More
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How to Make Payment Easier on Patients
Self-pay patients are on the rise as a result of more health plans with high deductibles and lower monthly premiums. Sadly, it can be tough for medical practices to get full payment from patients, which results in a decline in… Read More
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What You Should Do Whenever Patients Don’t Pay Their Medical Bills
Regardless of industry, it’s never going to be easy handling people who aren’t paying for their services. For the healthcare industry, specifically, there are greater healthcare expenses and a rise in HDHPs, also known as high deductible health plans. Both of these… Read More
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Best Practices You Can Implement to Make Medical Claims Processing More Successful
Do you want to make your medical practice more productive and streamlined? If so, you’re in the right place. The American Medical Association states that higher rates of errors in claims processing are resulting in the healthcare industry taking on… Read More
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Benefits and Potential Problems With Electronic Health Records
Many people are seeing how important computer and software systems have become in the healthcare industry, especially when trying to improve the productivity of employees and provide treatment to patients in a more effective manner. A specific piece of software… Read More
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Steps That Go Into Appealing Medical Claims That Were Denied
Medical billing has a lot of complexity to it, with many stakeholders involved throughout the process. Many steps have to be followed to guarantee precise and timely payments. The difference between good and bad medical billing can be the difference… Read More
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Suggestions We Have for Handling Behavioral and Mental Health Billing
Medical billing is already complicated. Medical billing becomes even more complex when it is being done for mental health services. The facilities that offer mental health billing services are usually put at a disadvantage relative to other areas of the… Read More
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Effective Denial Management and How You can Create an Efficient Revenue Cycle
Denials aren’t much different from a check engine light in your car. While you could keep driving for miles, it doesn’t make the problem go away and eventually, you’ll need to address the problem. Hospitals and other health systems need… Read More
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See How You Can Stop Physical Therapy Billing Denials
Just like with most specialties, physical therapy and occupational billing have their own special coding and billing obstacles. Providers have to understand the guidelines every payer follows for their time-based reporting, and they have to make sure they count carefully…. Read More