Month: March 2014
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Enhance Cardiology Billing Process with EMR & EHR Implementation
Cardiology is one of the largest and most complex areas in healthcare, targeted heavily by EHR vendors. Since paper charts are time-consuming and prone to errors, cardiologists have started realized the benefits of implementing EHR/EMR. Cardiology-specific EMR software and medical billing systems not only help practices achieve financial and operational…
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Cardiologists Surviving Business Challenges with a Specialized Medical Billing Service
From financial issues created due to Affordable Care Act to hardships related to health IT implementation, cardiology practices in the US are facing various business challenges. Browse All : Cardiology Billing Services Will 2014 bring respite from payment issues for cardiologists? The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule 2013 has had a…
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Avoid Medical Practice Productivity Loss Due to ICD-10 with a Medical Billing Service
Multiple strategies will be required by medical practices to cope with an anticipated drop in productivity due to ICD-10. Coding, claims processing, case management, decision support and follow-up (electronic medical billing system) are likely to face greatest impact due to the new system. Therefore, it has become important for providers…
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Sail Through Family Practice Billing with an Experienced Billing Team
Family practices across the US have been facing difficulties in revenue collection due to challenges related to medical billing and coding. Modifier omission, untimely claim submission, underscoring and inaccurate documentation may seem like minor errors; but they eventually have a major impact on the revenue cycle of practices. Family practice…
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Things Chiropractors have to Change in Their Medical Billing Process in 2014
2014, by no means, will be an easy year for chiropractic practices with changes in billing and coding regulations and standards. To meet these regulatory challenges, chiropractic services will have to change five things in their medical billing and coding process- Obamacare and its challenges for chiropractors: There is an…
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Will Dental Billing Practices Be Impacted by ICD 10?
With the advent of electronic billing and coding practices, modern healthcare has benefited tremendously over the past decade. Physicians no longer have to stay on a lookout for coding changes to keep their practices away from mis-coding and claim denials. Coding manuals have become redundant with electronic billing software well…
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What are the Changes in “2014 Physician fee Schedule”, Medicare and its Modalities?
The CMS physician fee schedule of 2014 and Medicare modalities have brought in an era of financial stress and reduced pay-outs for medical practitioners. Physicians are reluctantly admitting and accepting the payment cuts given their prior commitments for certain processes. Medicare on the whole has announced 2-6% of cut in…
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