With ever changing healthcare regulations and evolving high tech healthcare industry, the profitability of your practice can vary dramatically based on how attentive you are to your medical billing reports. Medical billing involves payment for your services by the patient or reimbursement by claim carriers like insurance companies, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. The entire process of […]
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Protect Your Medical Practice in Uncertain Times with a Medical Billing Specialist
The healthcare reforms brought by the Obama administration have in many ways been an industry-churning affair. They have changed the number of patients the healthcare centers receive today, affected the administrative activities that revolve around a typical treatment episode, shifted the professional location of several medical practitioners (independent physicians aligning with hospitals) etc. These changes […]
It Is Worth Paying for Medical Billing Services Than Be Affected with Suspended Reimbursements
Affordable Care Act, along with a few other pro-beneficiary health care policies, may have helped rationalize cost of health care as well as cost of health care insurance across the broad spectrum – Medicare, Medicaid, and a variety of private insurance plans offered across the U.S. Beneficiaries could even benefit from lesser co-payment obligations and […]
What Prompts Providers to Hire Specialists in Transition to ICD-10?
When The Department of Health and Human Services’ drew out a time table for ICD-10 transition, all the stakeholders including the providers felt the time-frame was sufficient to migrate comprehensively to ICD-10 compliant clinical and operational practices. But that has not been the case – in view of woefully slow pace of transition across the […]
How Vital Is an Effective and Efficient Medical Billing and Coding in Preserving Thoracic Surgery Practice Profitability?
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 […]
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 […]