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 their future practice, constant clinical innovations and complexity […]
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Employing Specialized Medical Billing to Maneuver Through Clinical and Operational Issues in 2013
The year 2013 is going to be quite significant to the U.S. health care industry in general and doctors in particular – it is the year when a host of health care reforms will be set in motion, and many clinical and operational experiments will get crystallized into norms to be complied with by the […]
Will Outsourced Medical Billing Ease the Burden on Fewer Doctors Due to Healthcare Law?
The doctor-patient ratio has woefully been disproportionate across the 50 states in the U.S., and researchers believe that it may continue to be far from ideal and even worsen in the coming years: Researchers have estimated that even in the absence of the health care reform law, the shortage of doctors would have exceeded 100,000 […]
Managing Variable Healthcare Data with the Help of a Medical Billing Service
Although healthcare data is presumably highly significant to clinical efficiency, its application is not limited to clinical circle alone – medical billing, operational efficiency, contribution to clinical research and macro healthcare policies are equally dependent on healthcare data. Therefore, the primary raw data collected needs to be processed and tailored-made to serve these diverse purposes. […]
Managing Holiday Season Resource-Crunch with the Help of a Medical Billing Company
Healthcare is perhaps one of those few professions which are exception to the general rule of eight hour-a-day duty – professionals are required to stretch beyond their usual duty hours, and may even have to be on a 24×7 vigil. As a result work-related fatigue has been more common, which is undesirable from clinical point […]
How Medical Billing Consortiums Are Superior to Medical Billing Companies
The origin of medical billing practices in the U.S. can be traced back to the 1960s when Medicare was introduced as a parallel to cash-based medical services. Since then, insurance-backed medical service has grown enormously, and two-thirds of the total physicians’ fees is routed through insurance of some form or the other. This shift in […]
The Value of Accurate Documentation in Medical Bill Reimbursement
Medical documentation has myriad applications in today’s health care administration – being a reference source for future encounters; enabling coordinated care, both within and across the clinical network; contributing to macro health care planning and reforms; ensuring clinical data privacy and security as per HIPAA norms; and ensuring flawless medical billing. Notwithstanding providers’ effort to […]
It Pays To Be a Medical Billing and Coding Specialist
Choice of a profession is determined by its stability against job market fluctuation, potential growth, and monetary rewards. The medical billing and coding profession seems to be one those few professions that possess all these attributes. While professionals in other spheres are fighting lay-offs and salary cuts, medical billers and coders’ present and future look […]
Life as Medical Billers and Coders in Today’s Economy
The world’s largest economy has had to weather one of the worst recessions in recent times. Not too long ago U.S. GDP hit the rock-bottom (at -8.9 in the middle of 2009). While it has slowly been coming out of the depths, the growth is not enough to bring down the unemployment rate, which is […]
Forecasting the Future of Medical Billing and Coding Post ICD-10
United States is on the verge of a major billing and coding reform – the introduction of ICD-10 in particular marks the beginning of the most robust, effective and efficient system of billing and coding ever to have been followed. While providers and payers will benefit from progressive changes, medical billers and coders will have […]