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 […]
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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 […]
Practice Owners face challenges with EHR adoption: Possible Solutions
The adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) presents numerous challenges for physicians and many practices are finding it difficult to successfully adopt EHRs. The data released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention about EHR adoption rates in the country bears witness to the fact that adoption rates are not what they need to […]
How aging reports aid in realizing Account Receivables
Notwithstanding the importance of flawless coding in maximizing healthcare insurance reimbursements from insurance carriers, it is the Account Receivable Management (A/R Management) that proves decisive in either making or breaking your chances of mitigating denial or delay of your medical bill claims. Most of the physicians, whose primary focus happens to be quality medical care […]
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 […]
Develop Social Media Networks for Hospitals and Small Practices to increase medical billing
Social Media is developing into a tool not just for communication and entertainment but is also emerging as a powerful instrument for marketing and efficient coordination. Hospitals, group practices, clinics and even solo practices have started to reap the benefits offered by social media networking. The implementation, control and fruitful use of social media in […]