Hospitals that hitherto have been troubled with in-patient operational losses may just have found a solution in outpatient mode. Contrary to stagnant inpatient volumes and revenues, outpatient volumes seem to have picked up in recent years. As a result, operational revenues at hospitals seem to be firming up. It is also worthwhile to be informed […]
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Correlation between Practice Revenue and Operational Documentation
Documentation holds special significance in clinical care – care coordination, easy reference, clinical research, and clinical certification are all made possible by well-documented clinical encounters. But documentation got a new dimension when fee-for-service was first replaced by Medicare-supported reimbursements. And, with the gradual inclusion of private players in health insurance, the significant of documentation is […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
Billing “Urgent Care” As It Emerges As One of the Fastest Growing Specialties
Urgent care is fast developing as a viable alternative to what has traditionally been known as “family practice”. The main reason behind this new-found fancy is that physicians can now operate from designated facilities without having to trek around offices, nursing homes, and hospitals. Additionally, urgent care centers are preferred to other similar types of […]
Advocating and Practicing Best Practices in Medical Billing
For years, Medicalbillersandcoders.com has been synonymous with medical billing management – helping medical practitioners not only realize their medical reimbursements fully but also optimize their clinical and operational efficiency. While the medical billing complexities have consistently been escalating – owing to unprecedented increase in insured population and the risk associated with managing insurance reimbursements – […]
How are States Retaining Physicians in Times of Shortage?
Physician shortages is a growing concern and is pushing various states to keep doctors trained in medical schools and residency programs from crossing state lines to practice medicine. According to new statistics from the Assn. of American Medical Colleges- nationwide, there were 258.7 active physicians per 100,000 people and in individual states, ratios range from […]
Simplify EHR Systems by Restructuring Your Medical Billing
EHR systems have changed over the last decade and the health reforms have given new meaning to such systems by making rules regarding ‘Meaningful Use” (MU) of such systems. Older versions of EHRs were simple digitized versions replacing paper based records and did not have the specific guidelines in MU to be implemented for the […]
US Healthcare Adapting to Reforms: Hospitals to Ease Physician Shortages
The health reforms have affected every aspect of the health care delivery system in the United States and smaller and solo practices in the country are finding it difficult to cope with the changes on almost every level of health care delivery. The changes in health IT sector, policies in government intervention, and changing reimbursement […]