Accounts Receivable

Questions you should ask yourself as you think about the future for yourself and your practice.

How to develop an accounts receivable work plan in three steps

If your profit is suddenly on a lower trajectory, resist the instinct to attempt a quick fix. Here’s what to do instead. 

How to make sense of the dollars and cents at a physician practice.

Collecting patient payments can be a challenge for medical practices that aren’t operating at maximum efficiency. Review some key performance indicators to identify and improve processes.

A payer contract is more than a mere fee schedule. There are several other factors to consider when deciding to keep or terminate a payer contract.

The decision of whether to keep billing in-house or outsource is not always about cost. It’s about the value realized for the expense and the risk of not getting it right.

You don’t know how much money you have in the bank. What if I told you, you can calculate a projection of your inflow for this month?

Instead of funneling a bunch of capital into your practice on a monthly basis, how about cleaning up your DSO?

Dr. Melissa Young shares with us why January is her least favorite time of the year - from cold weather to unmet deductibles.

This month's coding questions look at coding for transition of care for a nursing facility patient and on Annual Wellness visits.

Here's why practices like ours can't thrive in this new environment. MGMA has the data to back it up.

Knowing you practice's accounts receivable is critical, and knowing how to manage it is key to your bottom line.

Helping to identify how to set up a successful process is the next step beyond settling for simply meeting industry benchmarks.

For this month's coding column, we get a few ICD-10 specific questions on BMI and well child visits.

Calculating your practice's percent collections a different way can tell a very compelling story of the economic health of your business.

There are pros and cons to being an employed physician. Take it from someone who has been both a practice owner and employed.

Looking at daily, weekly, and monthly revenue cycle reports doesn’t do much on its own, unless you compare them and track trends.

Sometimes, you have to add a little muscle to the way your staff approaches patient payments and other collections for your medical practice.

Each year, athenahealth ranks payers on how easy they are to work with providers. Here are the top 20 in the "major payer" category for 2015.

Each year, athenahealth ranks payers on how easy they are to work with providers. Here are the top 20 in the "all payers" category for 2015.

Each year, athenahealth ranks payers on how easy they are to work with providers. Here are the top 20 in the Blues category for 2015.

Each year, athenahealth ranks payers on how easy they are to work with providers. Here are the top 20 in the Medicare category for 2015.

Each year, athenahealth ranks payers on how easy they are to work with providers. Here are the top 20 in the Medicaid category for 2015.

Stay on top of your claims and denials with these four tips to spot problems early and maximize payer reimbursement.

Having a great collections management policy in place at your practice can serve you very well, and keep your accounts receivable on track.

Close communication with patients is vital to good collections. Send a collection letter after three failed statements, so patients know you mean business.

Each year, athenahealth ranks payers on how easy they are to work with providers. Here are the company's top 5 for categories including Blues, and regional.

Don't let your medical practice billing department drop the ball when it comes to great customer service.

Fee-for-service reimbursement continues to fall. To survive, practices must explore new opportunities to boost revenue. Let us help you decide the right fit for your practice.