Coding credentials & skills adequate to secure physician office jobs – Impact of Credit history

For some healthcare practitioners a good credit history is just as important as coding credentials and experience while hiring medical coders. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission survey on – the use of credit histories as employee selection criteria – revealed that 13% of organizations conduct credit checks on all job candidates and another 47% consider […]

Coders More in Demand as Solo Practices Embrace Technology

Extensive use of electronic health records by all types of healthcare providers along with additional records due to increasing population is forecasted to lead to an increased need for technicians. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics compared to the average for all occupations – Employment of medical records and health information technicians is expected […]

The Role of EHRs towards Physician Productivity and Medical Billing

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) definitely have an impact on physician productivity; however, little research has been carried out in this field compared to the other sectors such as the manufacturing sector where IT implementation has proven to be a successful booster of productivity. Measuring the impact of EHRs or EMRs on physician productivity and billing […]

Factors Affecting Hospital Employment and Physicians’ Revenue

There has been an increasing trend in the healthcare industry where physicians are opting for hospital employments and the reasons and repercussions of these seem numerous. It cannot be argued that there are many positives for ‘being your own boss’ in a private practice. However, due to numerous reasons and changes taking place in the […]

The Primary Barriers in Physician Billing and HIT Adoption

Physicians and healthcare provides across the country are slowly but surely adopting EHRs or Electronic Health Records as a part of the recent health reforms in the United States. Moreover, it has been reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that there has been a substantial increase in the adoption rates across […]

Coping Medicaid Expansion with Shrewd Medical Billing Practices

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) predicts that the proposed Medicaid expansion will bring an estimated 16 million more Americans into the health-care safety net. The prediction comes even as some twenty-six states are against such expansion. Although the proposed Medicaid expansion would eventually weigh more on the respective states’ budgetary allocation […]

EHR Adoption gains popularity with Oregon, Georgia, Washington and Virginia leading the trend

EHR adoption rates in the United States are definitely increasing, and this fact is corroborated by a report released by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), which states that “American Hospital Association’s Survey of IT adoption, 15.1 percent of acute care non-federal hospitals have adopted at least a “basic” EHR. Moreover, according to […]

Specialty EMR Market not Completely Tapped

Recent estimates conclude there are various specialists in the EMR market who rather than using specialty EMR, usually follow the trend of using a general EMR which has a few extra functions; however user views suggest that general EMRs with extra functions/templates are usually not sufficient for many specialists. The U.S. EMR market space is […]

Increasing Impetus on Physician Reimbursements Becoming Value-Based

Both federal and private payers are shifting compensation from volume to value of services. According to American Medical News one of such payers is UnitedHealth Group who is to start offering approximately 50- 70% of its physician’s bonuses for reaching cost and quality targets and/or participating in new care models. Increased numbers of physician practices […]

Physician Employment Rises in Hospitals

Despite a shortage of doctors projected to be at nearly 30,000 in the next few years, one area which is seeing an influx of new doctors is hospitals, which will eventually result in an increase in hospitalists. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in February reported a rise of 61,000 jobs in Healthcare and social assistance […]

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