Don’t Give up on Running your Medical Practice, Just Bring a Billing Specialist to Streamline Finance

Physician earnings have remained almost stagnant in last few years even though the government has been offering bonuses for EHR implementation and primary care. Pressure of operating an independent practice has become so intense that many are giving up their practice and joining local hospitals. Changes in healthcare reforms have increased patient load whereas financial […]

How can Billing Specialists Help Small, Rural Hospitals in Health IT Adoption

Hospitals in rural areas lag behind in health IT adoption due to which they face difficulties in care co-ordination. It not only impacts patient outcome in such areas but also affects the way these hospitals collect, share, use and manage health information. With few employees, less money and less time, rural hospitals are struggling to […]

Will Medicaid and Medicare Reforms See Rise in Healthcare Standards by 2015?

With more than 90 million Americans covered under Medicare and Medicaid insurance services, the U.S. healthcare system is heavily dependent on the success of healthcare reforms to improve care standards. All healthcare reforms are currently focusing on two parameters of care – cost and quality. Every new rule and guideline which is being introduced is […]

Medical Billing Made Effective with EHR

Electronic Health Records (EHR) or Electronic Medical Records (EMR) is a group of applications designed to enhance the efficiency and productivity of medical record keeping. With increasing complexity in coding and billing process as well as introduction of ICD-10 codes with 124,000 more coding options that the previously used ICD-9 codes, digital data recording has […]

Physicians Adopt HIE To Help Improve Care and Cut Costs

The American healthcare sector is slowly and steadily welcoming value based care. It stresses on the importance of providing the best quality services to patients but at limited costs. However, this shift to value based care is not going to be very easy. Several obstacles stand in front of it as of now. From the […]

Physicians Get Tech Savvy to Deal with Increased Billing Documentation

Documentation takes up approximately one-third of a physician’s workday. With the implementation of healthcare reforms, HIPAA requirements and preparation for ICD-10, physicians are buried into piles of charts and billing forms, ending up with limited time for patient care. The next generation HIPAA transaction standards (5010) have increased documentation challenges for physicians. The HIPAA Security […]

How Can Accurate Documentation Enhance Practice Revenue?

In the last five to ten years reimbursement for medical practices has been impacted by various changes in the healthcare industry. These changes include HIPPA tightening their requirements for data submission, upcoming ICD-10 final implementation date coming closer, amongst various others- which have a direct impact on medical documentation and hence on the medical practice’s […]

How best are medical practices prepared to address HIPAA breaches?

Contrary to the notion that government’s move to digitize healthcare information would enable healthcare providers, doctors, and insurance companies comply more aptly with HIPAA’s guidelines for patients’ privacy and security, there has been an upsurge in HIPAA breaches with providers being reported for breaches of some kind or the other. Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, […]

How Healthcare Data Breaches Warrant the Intervention of Billing Specialists

Technology has really done wonders to the way doctors or hospitals document and exchange healthcare data across the clinical eco-system – with the digital mode, it is now finitely possible to record unimaginable volumes of data in miniature chips, and share them instantly for collaborative clinical management, research, medical billing, and macro healthcare policy decisions. […]

The Prominence of Health Records in Clinical and Medical Billing Efficiency

Health practitioners often find themselves dealing with a variety of records – from records pertaining to practice license and credentialing documents to financial and compliance records. But none of them are as significant as ‘health care records’ (often known as ‘patient records’) simply because of its clinical and Medical Billing value. While health care records […]

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