Dental practices need to streamline their billing tasks in order to enhance revenue collection. Accuracy needs to be exercised in coding, billing, timely claim submission and follow-ups to get paid for the services offered. Challenges faced by dental practitioners: With an increase in work pressure ...

A large number of healthcare providers are not worried about their practice’s billing procedures as long as the revenue is coming. Some choose to ignore whereas some lack the time to concentrate on the insurance billing processes. If you are facing the same problem at your dental practice, you might...

Dental medicine has been suffering from the far reaching effects of the economic meltdown. Dental benefits are the first ones to be revoked by employers and people refrain from buying dental insurance at the time of financial crisis. Even though more than 55% of the U.S. population is enrolled for s...

As you know, there are various life insurance services available in the world—however, some people are still confused about the significance of life insurance in their lives. In the UK, citizens know about its importance; in fact, two out of three people have life insurance coverage there, according...

In today’s challenging billing scenario, Orthopedic physicians and surgeons are facing increased pressure due to increased billing challenges.  Extensive coding changes and revision have been introduced by the CPT Manual this year (2013), further impacting Orthopedic reimbursement in a big way. Orth...

Medical billing can be challenging for all types of medical practices; however, for internal medicine physicians/internists, it can be even trickier as the billing procedure for them is quite unique. Internal Medicine Practices is a medical practice providing healthcare services for adult patients W...

Family practice has traditionally ailed from under revenue collection for various factors related to billing and coding, like modifier omission, lack or inadequacy of supporting documentation, underscoring and claim submission. These may look like minor errors but their impact on revenue is anything...

Financial stability and profitability are becoming a rising concern for all medical practitioners with the ongoing changes that the healthcare industry is experiencing. Increased patient walk-ins, reduced Medicare reimbursements, declining collections and coding complexities are making bottom lines ...

Thoracic surgical specialty is one of those priority specialties that have always been in high demand across the 50 states in the U.S., and the forecast is for an increased incidence of thoracic surgical cases. While practitioners in thoracic surgical specialty may continue to be optimistic about th...

Nursing facilities across the U.S. have somehow endured a series of Medicare/Medicaid cuts thus far, but the latest move by CMS to reduce reimbursement for so-called Medicare “bad debt” – Medicare co-payments not made by beneficiaries or state Medicaid programs – may bring them on the threshold of a...