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 […]
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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 […]
Medical Billing Professional’s Career Prospects Brighten
Growth in Employment of medical record and health information technicians is expected to accelerate much faster than the average field according to the United States Bureau of Labor. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported health information technicians are one of the 10 fastest-growing allied health occupations, being a challenging interesting career where you are compensated […]
Is Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Model Viable?
“Given the situation, although the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) model of medical care seems a safer option, yet the initial clinical & operational realignments and adhering to CMS compliance measures may seem a bit exhausting for physicians. But, sooner or later, ACO can become mandatory requiring radical realignments amongst practitioners. Therefore, rather being forced into […]