Job Outlook for Medical Billers & Coders Looking Optimistic in Idaho, Florida & other US states

Various factors playing a role in altering the salary of a medical biller and coder including work experience, geographic location and type of employer, the job outlook for medical billers and coders in Idaho is very optimistic according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), mainly due to the growing healthcare trend in […]

Providers preparing for 5010 Enforcement–Medical Billers and Coders need of the hour

Already halfway through the HIPAA Version 5010 noncompliance grace period and in this scenario it is imperative for doctors who still haven’t to utilize the remaining few days to upgrade to 5010, as non compliance of submitting electronic claims in the appropriate 5010 format post 1st April, 2012, will result in the Centers for Medicare […]

Reimbursement Cuts: Texas Doctors Using Personal Resources

Small private practices struggle to survive, even as Texas Medical Association (TMA) President reported a significant worsening of the practice environment with various physicians using money from their personal reserves or secured bank loans to keep their practices going. According to AMA news nearly 51% of Texas doctors dug into personal funds. Various national reports […]

Analyzing Revenue Management Techniques for Ophthalmologists

“While Ophthalmologists seek to reinvent their clinical and operational model, the booming prospect of patient influx – 43 million by the year 2020 comprising age-related eye diseases, including cataracts, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration– should also be encouraging to their hearts. But, the issue of realigning their clinical and operational model to the […]

Balancing ACO Objective with Physician Reimbursement Maximization

As the U.S. healthcare sector looks up the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Concept of healthcare delivery with great expectation, physician community is quite apprehensive about their ability to garner reimbursements under a new healthcare delivery altogether. While ACO itself is not a novel concept – there have been umpteen examples of institutions operating on ACO […]

Upfront Realization as the catalyst for accelerating Physician reimbursement

“As physicians juggle with their core medical focus and issues related Upfront Collections, there would eventually be an adverse impact on their ability to afford quality medical care. Therefore, sooner or later, they would have to decide on outsourcing the competent services that can offer the best upfront Collection as part of the Comprehensive Revenue […]

Seeking Possible Solution to Intensifying Medical Billing Documentation

“Beset with spiraling Medicare expenditure amidst a rather volatile economy, the Federal Government policy of linking physician reimbursement to quality outcomes will not only test physicians’ level of quality medical care but also how they are going to document patient encounters. Therefore, physicians, required to furnish evidence-based healthcare documenting & reporting, will find it hard […]

In Retrospection: Revenue Collection Accomplishments in 2011

“While these comprehensive measures are no doubt indispensable to optimizing healthcare overheads and expenditure, physicians’ task to get their bills reimbursed could get even tougher, thereby making sustenance and growth prospects equally competitive. Although they have had, by and large, a prosperous year revenue-wise, the ensuing financial year evokes an air of apprehension. But, amidst […]

Medical Coding: from ambiguity to certainty

“As we try to analyze the staggering impact of approximated coding and deciphering, the ensuing ICD-10 with over 150,000 codes, the Systematized Nomenclature for Medicine (SNOMED) with over 11 axes for accommodating comprehensive list of codes, and the HIPAA 5010 Compliance for Medical Reporting should come as much the needed relief for the vested interests […]

Unbalanced Equilibrium: US States Facing Shortage of Medical Coders in Spite of High Supply

As if hospital shortages of nurses and pharmacists were not enough, the shortage of medical coders has risen to high levels in some areas in the US and physicians need to act fast least they lose millions of dollars in unbilled charges. American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has reported a nationwide shortage of certified […]

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