Over the last few years, medical billing has undergone a lot of changes, with emphasis on the IT systems, for the smooth & efficient processing of insurance claims and timely payments to doctors & other healthcare professionals (HP). In 2009, the Obama administration pledged $19 billion funds to health care information technology. The use of […]
Medical Billing and Coding Services in USA
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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 Physicians Balance Roles at Work to Increase Medical Billing Efficiency of Their Clinic?
Over the last few years, the healthcare system in the United States has witnessed modifications in policies and regulations, in order to make healthcare facilities cost-effective and accessible to people from all income groups. However, a substantial percentage of the population still remains uninsured and the introduction of the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act […]
Denial Management – Integral to Physicians’ Conquering Reimbursement Challenges While Medical Billing
Denials are responsible for major erosion of practice revenues, and, despite the best efforts, denials continue to assume monstrous proportions. The situation has grown so alarming that: Medical practices fail to collect 25% of the money they are owed $125 billion is left in the bag as unpaid claims Only 70% of claims are paid […]
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 […]
Monitoring Potential for Up-Coding Errors in EHR with the Help of a Medical Billing Service
There has been considerable resolve and persuasion from the Federal Government to introduce Electronic Health Record System across the health care continuum. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act has indeed given much impetus to pace of conversion from paper to electronic medium. The bait of financial incentives and penalties for […]
Combining Medical Billing and Coding to Deliver Maximum Physician Revenue
‘Medical billing’ and ‘Medical coding’ may have sometimes been used interchangeably to mean the act of claiming reimbursement from insurance payers, but essentially they are two separate and specialized jobs. Medical coding precedes medical billing, and it is irreversible. While a medical biller is entrusted with far more task than a coder, it is the […]
Medical Practices Anxious About the Impact of ICD-10 Transition
While the recent one year extension (from October 1, 2013 to October 1, 2014) in deadline by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) may somewhat have eased the pressure, yet the anxiety still persists among the majority of medical practices in the US. The “anxiety” is about the impact of ICD-10 transition […]
Navigating through Regulatory Changes that Dramatically Affect Medical Billing
The limited reach of US healthcare network leaves a large part of American population outside the net of healthcare. This problem has stalked US governments traditionally and to expand the reach of healthcare to make healthcare available to a larger part of US population, successive governments (in varying degrees and as suited their political beliefs) […]