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Outsourcing Your Billing - Are revenue cycle firms a godsend or added expense?

2011-01-22T19:23:00.002+05:30

By Bruce Kleaveland | Physicians Practice Do you enjoy the daily business of medicine? Not the world of patients and symptoms, but the domain of claims, collections, receipts, and reports, for which there is woefully little training in the medical school curriculum. If you don’t, you are not alone. Thousands of practices have effectively delegated their entire financial operations to third

Medicare fraud investigation yields 73 indictments

2010-10-14T22:44:00.001+05:30

By Chris Anderson | Healthcare Finance NewsOctober 14, 2010. In what U.S. government officials are calling the largest Medicare fraud scheme to come to light, 73 people were indicted Wednesday and charged with a variety of healthcare fraud-related crimes that involve more than $163 million in fraudulent billing. The indictments were unsealed in five judicial districts and include a number

Insurers Make Progress in Claims Processing; Inefficiencies Remain

2010-06-01T07:08:00.004+05:30

May 26, 2010 | iHealthBeat Last year, most private health insurance companies made strides in using technology to improve their provider medical claims processing rates, resulting in marked improvements in transaction speeds of the reimbursements, according to the fifth annual PayerView rankings report released today, the Boston Globe reports. The rankings report was compiled by

Dealing with a Difficult Provider – Part 1

2010-03-20T13:01:00.000+05:30

February 16, 2010 — solutionsmedicalbilling One of the things you don’t realize yet when you first start your medical billing business is how different each provider will be from the next. You will need to learn the differences and how to deal with the difficult ones. Some providers are very easy to work with and some can be very difficult. When you don’t yet have any experience it can be

Dealing With a Difficult Provider Part 2

2010-03-20T13:00:00.001+05:30

March 18, 2010 — solutionsmedicalbilling It may come as a surprise to the beginning medical billing service but many providers do not pay their own bills on time. This can be a huge problem. The new medical billing service generally waits several months before they are even able to find, start working for, and bill a new client. You have invested time and money into getting this account started.

One-third of physician practices do not accept credit card payments

2009-05-30T12:23:00.009+05:30

May 29, 2009 | Richard Pizzi, Editor | Healthcare Finance NewsIRVINE, CA – Thirty-three percent of physician offices do not accept credit cards as a form of payment, according to a new survey. This represents a 5 percent increase since a similar survey was conducted last year.The Physician Office Credit-Card Acceptance Survey, by SK&A Information Services, an Irvine, Calif.-

More ways to help manage medical costs

2009-02-12T15:15:00.007+05:30

By updated 1:13 p.m. ET Feb. 10, 2009Patients have several tools to help manage medical costs. Here are some additional tips recommended by debt reduction experts._ Talk to the doctor about whether all the recommended care is necessary._ Ask if a procedure can be done on an outpatient basis, to avoid a costly hospital stay._ Can you use less-expensive, generic versions of the medicine you need?_

AHIP Members - Health Insurance Plan Links

2009-01-01T18:26:00.003+05:30

There are times when we aggressively search the internet for details of the US Health Insurance Companies or Plans and finally find ourselves landing up on the official websites of the insurance companies to find most of the details what we were looking for. On the other hand, it might be even harder to find the official websites of certain insurance companies.However it maybe, won't it be

Google Group 'US Medical Billing'

2008-12-31T23:59:00.002+05:30

The Google Group 'US Medical Billing' was formed to help, those who either belong to the industry or just a curious visitor, in sharing news, views, articles, questions, information, updates, ideas, thoughts, knowledge and documents related to the US Medical Billing vertical.Subscribe to 'US Medical Billing' Email: Click here to visit this group...You can become a member of this group today to

'US Healthcare PM & RCM' - A LinkedIn Group

2008-12-31T23:58:00.001+05:30

'US Healthcare PM & RCM' is a LinkedIn Group which was created to serve as a common platform to unite professionals involved with the US 'Healthcare Practice Management & Revenue Cycle Management', generally known as 'Medical Billing'. It is a group that will include professionals at all levels from various processes like Appointment Scheduling, Patient Registration, Medical Documentation,

Medical Billing in Facebook

2008-12-31T23:57:00.000+05:30

Hello Everyone,I'm inviting all you 'Medical Billing' professionals and enthusiasts, who are in Facebook, to become a fan of the service 'Medical Billing' in Facebook.There was no proper page found previously for this service in Facebook, so I created one to promote its popularity and to bring together our Medical Billing friends in FB, in one page.The homepage of the service 'Medical Billing'

HIPAA Presentation

2008-10-05T18:44:00.001+05:30