Cardiology Practices Cope with the Challenges Emerging from Changes in Medical Record Auditing

Medical record auditing is undergoing changes and this has made even the most prepared physicians nervous. Quality of care and services offered by a medical practice is determined by the thoroughness of clinical documentation and medical records maintained by the practice. Therefore, for every Cardiologist, already facing the recent revision to cardiology fee schedule besides […]

Physicians Realign Their Strategies to Meet the Challenges of Healthcare Reform

After reforms, the American healthcare industry is seeing a curious change: healthcare providers are adjusting their practice models to suit the needs of Affordable Care Act. A quick look at some of the factors that are provoking these changes will bring about how the changes have not left (or will not leave) any aspect of […]

Healthcare Regulatory Compliance to Sway Medical Practitioners from Patient Care?

Medical practitioners, whose immediate concern has been quality patient care or clinical excellence, may be swayed away by a compelling healthcare regulatory compliance. ;While regulatory compliance may have been designed to rationalize the entire healthcare delivery, optimize medical expenditure, and improve outcomes for patients, it is still quite a task for practitioners, who may not […]

Are Medical Practices Moving Forward at the Same Pace as Healthcare Reforms?

Healthcare Reforms or Obamacare that had been facing a few political hurdles may have finally broken through all shackles and assumed greater acceleration. While healthcare reforms or Obamacare are largely perceived to pro-patient, physicians or medical practices have no option but to move with the requisite adaption. Amongst a host of reforms, the recommendation of […]

What Do Stage 2 Meaningful Use Guidelines Have in Store for Radiologists?

Stage 2 meaningful use guidelines are finally out, and radiologists may heave a sigh of relief since most of the ambiguity that existed in Stage 1 about their eligibility and the ways to approach the qualification criterion seem to have been made amply clear by CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC). The […]

Would Dwindling Medicare and Medicaid Payment Rates Turn Providers to Private Insurance Beneficiaries?

It is an irony that Medicare and Medicaid, which reimburse more than the half of the nation’s total health insurance, have come in for heavy flak by physicians, who claim to have lost considerable revenues that they could otherwise have rightfully earned had they avoided seeing Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries and favored patients with private […]

What Implication Will Reimbursement Cuts For 2013 Have on Radiology Collections?

Radiology collections, which have been far from being impressive in the recent years, may further go down amidst a host of issues likely to surface throughout 2013. Significant of those issues is the reimbursement cuts, which is supposed to lead to a reduction of almost 19% in the collections of radiology practices. Further, a 25% […]

Navigating through Regulatory Changes that Dramatically Affect Medical Billing

The limited reach of US healthcare network leaves a large part of American population outside the net of healthcare. This problem has stalked US governments traditionally and to expand the reach of healthcare to make healthcare available to a larger part of US population, successive governments (in varying degrees and as suited their political beliefs) […]

Hospitals Expand to Attract Well-Insured Patients Despite Pressures of Healthcare Reforms

Several hospitals are looking for well-insured patients beyond traditional market boundaries, both in prosperous suburbs and in nearby areas with growing, well-insured populations. According to a study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) hospitals seeking a competitive edge in the marketplace are targeting geographic expansion into new markets which are well-insured. The […]

US Healthcare Adapting to Reforms: Hospitals to Ease Physician Shortages

The health reforms have affected every aspect of the health care delivery system in the United States and smaller and solo practices in the country are finding it difficult to cope with the changes on almost every level of health care delivery. The changes in health IT sector, policies in government intervention, and changing reimbursement […]