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 […]
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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 […]
Does a Medical Coding & Billing Job Offer You Healthcare’s Security from an Office Setting?
Career in health care industry has rarely been unsecure. While professionals in other sectors have had to undergo turbulent times recently, people in this priority sector have maintained steady progress despite economic reversals. And there are reasons to it: first, health care is indispensable; more significantly, it is supported by world’s largest public insurance schemes […]
How can A Medical Billing Service Help in Increasing Revenue at Your Practice?
Quality and cost have been inseparable. And, as U.S. health care industry is defined by new quality benchmarks, cost of administering medical services too seems be rising proportionately. While physicians continue to respond with appreciable clinical efficiency, they seem to have lost ways to find sustainable existence and growth. The existence of intense competition has […]