Articles
Medicare’s New Bounty Hunters (posted on 3/1/10)
Concerned about Medicare’s new Recovery Audit Contractors snooping around? Though your practice may not be affected by RACs for at least a year, the time to ready your defenses is now. Here’s how.
Payer Take-backs, Take That! (posted on 3/1/10)
Consultant Susanne Madden offers a step-by-step guide to handling payer take-backs and not getting bullied into writing a check without researching the situation.
Outsourcing Your Billing (posted on 2/1/10)
Considering outsourcing the business side of your practice to a revenue cycle management firm? Let someone deal with the claims and collections headaches … right? Maybe. We examine the pros, cons, expenses, and benefits.
2009 Fee Schedule Survey: Survive the Perfect Storm (posted on 1/1/10)
A lingering recession and declining reimbursement make for stormy weather for practices. Check out our suggestions for how to stay dry — and in the black.
Payment Bundling: Like It or Not, It’s Coming (posted on 10/1/09)
Hospital-doctor bundling schemes are a near-certainty in any healthcare reform. Will physicians get the short end of the stick?
Making Sense of Productivity — Using RVUs (posted on 9/1/09)
The best measure of physician productivity is the “relative value unit,” or RVU. But a physician trying to figure out how much she’ll be paid under this system doesn’t know where to start, or even what an RVU is. Here’s help.
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Q & A
Controlling Payer Refund Requests (posted 6/1/09)
I just got a refund request from a payer.
Setting Up Payment Plans (posted 6/1/09)
Are medical practices more or less likely today to offer patients a payment plan to help them cover their increasing out-of-pocket costs?
Changing Management Software (posted 5/1/09)
I am having trouble with my current practice management and billing system.
Getting Accepted by Payers (posted 5/1/09)
I started an urgent care clinic.
Having Multiple Fee Schedules (posted 5/1/09)
The practice I currently work for has always billed Medicare exactly what Medicare pays.
Measuring Collection Success (posted 5/1/09)
I have a new practice.
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Tools
Evaluate Your Payer Mix
Use this easy calculator to find out which of your payers are worth your efforts. By comparing the percentage of revenue to the percentage of patient ...
Assess Your Payer Contracts
This simple work sheet will let you compare your payers' reimbursement for specific procedure with your costs for each procedure. If you're spending m...
Impact, By Specialty, of the 2007 Proposed Medicare Fee Schedule
CMS has released its proposed changes. Not sure how it will impact you? Have a gander at this. It'll give you what you need to prepare. We took it str...
Payment Coupons
Take a page from your mortgage company. Instead of sending self-pay patients on a payment plan statements every month, give them coupons. The coupons ...
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