Many allege that ICD9 codes lack the ability to precisely describe low-intensity conditions particularly pertaining to physical therapy, home care etc. On the other hand, ICD 10 is widely believed to be more accurate and inclusive and thus is expected to promote the number of successful claims. But before getting there, chiropractic practitioners have to […]
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Will Medicaid and Medicare Reforms See Rise in Healthcare Standards by 2015?
With more than 90 million Americans covered under Medicare and Medicaid insurance services, the U.S. healthcare system is heavily dependent on the success of healthcare reforms to improve care standards. All healthcare reforms are currently focusing on two parameters of care – cost and quality. Every new rule and guideline which is being introduced is […]
Medical Billing Made Effective with EHR
Electronic Health Records (EHR) or Electronic Medical Records (EMR) is a group of applications designed to enhance the efficiency and productivity of medical record keeping. With increasing complexity in coding and billing process as well as introduction of ICD-10 codes with 124,000 more coding options that the previously used ICD-9 codes, digital data recording has […]
Major Billing Hurdles Faced in Optometry

Optometry services have seen an increasing growth in present day healthcare industry. With healthcare reforms now allowing optometry practitioners to prescribe medications and perform minor procedures, people prefer to visit an Optometry clinic with minor eye-care troubles instead of booking an appointment with an Ophthalmologist. However, with increasing patient inflow and variety of services getting […]
Improving Profitability of your Chiropractic Billing with Revenue Management
Revenue management or revenue cycle management is increasingly becoming one of the most vital functions in healthcare industry. For any care provider to stay financially viable, proper planning and management of revenue sources is absolutely essential. In an alternative medicine field like Chiropractic, revenue management underlines the short term and long term operations of the […]
How to Make Billing and Payments Efficient in your Gastroenterology Practice
Gastroenterology is a focused and specialized area of medical care that has been gaining prominence over the past few years. With unprecedented population growth and dramatic changes in lifestyle, Gastroenterology has seen a steady rise in patient inflow. In addition to that, groundbreaking advancements in medical equipments and techniques have broadened the scope of gastroenterology. […]
Chiropractic revenue model facing billing changes in 2013
Chiropractic as an alternate field of medicine has always suffered the problems of effective billing and revenue management due to lack of priority given to it as a non primary care practice. However, with recent healthcare reforms bringing change in the way Chiropractic is seen in medical circles, an over hauling of revenue models of […]
Changing Trends and Billing Practices in Dental Medicine
Dental medicine has been suffering from the far reaching effects of the economic meltdown. Dental benefits are the first ones to be revoked by employers and people refrain from buying dental insurance at the time of financial crisis. Even though more than 55% of the U.S. population is enrolled for some kind of dental benefit […]
Why Small Practice’s billing is More Vulnerable to ICD-10?
Small medical practices will be facing tremendous pressure once ICD-10 is implemented. Due to lack of sufficient budget and skilled billers and coders, diffusing the burden of a new coding system will certainly make things difficult for them. Why small practices will be worst hit? It is being anticipated that the transition to ICD-10 will […]
Surviving Billing Challenges with an Optometry Medical Billing Specialist

Coding and billing are complex tasks for optometrists due to the difficulties in meeting different levels of office visit, pressure of accurate documentation and lack of coding and billing experts. Time constraint makes it difficult for providers to handle the insurance reimbursement system due to which they don’t get paid for the services offered. Trying […]