Category: Medical Billing

A few months ago, Congress showed a strong sense of bi-partisanship. They quickly and overrode President Bush’s veto of a bill that affected the reimbursement of physicians by Medicare. The payments to doctors who participate in Medicare was set to decrease by 11% and many members of congress felt that this would decrease the number […]

Are you seriously thinking about eliminating you in-house medical billing? Are asking yourself would it be cost effective to do so? Well let me give you a breakdown of just how much it really costs to run an in-house billing department.The following analysis can help illustrate how savings can be obtained through outsourcing you medical […]

Most insurances, including workers comp & no-fault do not allow patients to be treated for the same condition with both chiropractic and physical therapy during the same time period. Sometimes the patient will not mention to the provider that they are already receiving treatment. Then the provider sees the patient, submits the claim, but gets […]

According to a recent Healthcare Finance News survey of 173 senior level finance and operations decision makers, 94 percent of responding executives say improving collections on patient payments is among their organizations’ top three revenue cycle priorities. Improving patient collections is particularly critical for specialists because the can easily reach and exceed having 20 percent […]

Create a Paperless Medical Workplace…For years, practices have been placing up with heaps of paperwork, taking them perpetually to fill, file after which retailer each bit of knowledge. It is not solely tough however time-consuming for practitioners to manually course of claims and go to insurance coverage firms once in a while to get their […]

Medical billing books are no longer available only at bookstores and by ordering from the internet. You can now download many medical billing books directly to your computer instantly. New technology has made it extremely easy to get medical billing information immediately by ordering with a credit card and downloading the book or “ebook” as […]

Several times over the last couple of years I have talked with a pediatrician who needs help with his practice. On each occasion he has come to the point of making a decision that can only benefit him and his practice and he becomes frozen by the thought.This week while having lunch with a representative […]

Medical billing is the enterprise of submitting and following up on claims to insurance coverage corporations in order that docs can obtain cost for his or her companies. That is the method utilized by most insurance coverage corporations, each government-owned and privately-owned. The precise billing course of will happen between a healthcare supplier and the […]

Medicare requires that providers notify them when they make any changes to their office location, tax ID#, legal history, managing employees, or personal information. The notification is suppose to be within 30 days of the change. Many providers do not realize this until their Medicare payments suddenly stop for no apparent reason.An example would be […]

How efficient are you in your claims processing. How many providers are in your office? How many billing clerks do you have?In our office we know that one medical billing clerk can easily handle the paper work of up to ten providers. If you have three billing clerks, do you have thirty providers? If your […]