Optimizing Fee Schedules for Physicians: An Overview The fee schedule for any physician practice is an important pecuniary factor that affects not just your revenue but also the way in which healthcare is delivered to the patients. Many practices fail to update their fee schedules on a regular basis which can affect the profitability and […]
Medical Billing and Coding Services in USA
Medical Billing Services
Growing Trend in Medium Size Clinics Referring to Medical Billing Outsourcing
Small and Medium-sized Clinics: Great Expectations Small and Medium sized clinics face unique type of challenges in almost all functions of physicians and staff such as administration, revenue cycle management, Electronic Health Records (EHR) implementation, and the challenge of keeping pace with the recent health reforms. The nature of the core functions as well as […]
‘Pay-as-you-go’ as a value-based medical billing service model
While we are not alien to the term ‘pay-as-you-go’, it is something that is catching the imagination of physicians opting for outsourced medical billing services. Unlike in the past, when ‘pay-as-you-go’ was sporadically availed by a few physicians, it is now emerging as a viable alternative to long-term contractual medical billing services. Well… what is […]
MBC’s job board for increased job prospects!
MBC has recently launched a job board to lessen the complexity of bringing physicians and coders together, eventually working as an easy-to-use interface between them through the facility on job listing. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Medical billers and coders are considered to be in high demand among the allied health […]
Medical Billing Consultancy Role in Practices Planning for ICD-10 Conversion
The extent and scope of ICD-10’s clinical and operational impact is such that it is going to influence how functional departments coordinate and operate internally among themselves as well as with external entities such as payers and regulatory bodies. Therefore, it is imperative that providers migrate to clinical and operational practices that best endorse ICD-10 […]
The Growing Shift from Private Practice to Hospital Employment
There seems to be something really interesting as far as the shift from private practice to hospital based employment recently: A consistent 2% annual decline in private practicing by physicians, which is expected to be at 5% annually by 2013 An upsurge in hospital employment accounting for nearly 51% of the physicians employed last year, […]
Exodus to Hospital-Based Employment and its Effect on Healthcare Industry
While the recent healthcare reforms ushered in by the Federal Government promises to elevate clinical and operational efficiency across the nation’s healthcare continuum, it is also going to induce physicians into a more accountable and responsible quality clinical regime. The imminent Accountable Care Organization Model, Medicare cuts, the fear of Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) backlash, […]
Predicting the Scope of Medical Billing Consultants after 2014 and beyond
Although it has been quite a while since the Federal Government announced a series of far-reaching healthcare reforms, we are yet to experience their full impact across the healthcare continuum. And, with the Senate bill deferring a major chunk of the reforms further, it is expected that we may have to wait as late as […]
How are States Retaining Physicians in Times of Shortage?
Physician shortages is a growing concern and is pushing various states to keep doctors trained in medical schools and residency programs from crossing state lines to practice medicine. According to new statistics from the Assn. of American Medical Colleges- nationwide, there were 258.7 active physicians per 100,000 people and in individual states, ratios range from […]
What does the latest ICD-10 delay mean to your medical practices?
The persistent appeal for pushing back the ICD-10 compliance date has finally paid off for physicians; the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has made it official that physicians would have time till October1, 2014 (revised from the current deadline of October1, 2013) to comply with ICD-10 system of medical coding. The decision […]