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How to Work With New Reform-created Patients

To survive a potential influx of patients from healthcare exchanges, practices must focus on a few key areas, experts say. Communicate with patients; monitor payer mix; and manage billing and collections.

ALSO: Our 2014 PayerView data, by athenahealth, provides insight on how easy or hard it is for your practice to work with payers.

Payers

The Doctor Knows Best

Jennifer Frank, MD
Blog | February 17, 2015 | Patients, Payers, Work/Life Balance
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The growing list of payer demands continues to drive medical decision making. It can also impede patient care and hasten physician burnout.

5 Common Medical Practice Denials and Remedies: Q4 2014

February 16, 2015 | Medical Billing & Collections, Coding, Denials, Payers, Revenue Cycle Management

RemitDATA's Aaron Hood explores the most common unexpected denials at practices nationwide, with a special focus on family medicine.

Cost Accounting in the Medical Practice via RVU

Frank Cohen
February 10, 2015 | RVU, Contracts, Managers Administrators, Payers, Physician Compensation, Physician Productivity
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Using RVUs to conduct a cost analysis at your medical practice is not only cheap and easy, it is very effective at assessing the value of your payer contracts.

2014 Fee Schedule Survey - Introduction

2014 Fee Schedule Survey Results

February 02, 2015 | Fee Schedule Survey, Coding, Medical Billing & Collections, Payers, Physician Compensation

The results of our 2014 Fee Schedule Survey are in. Here's a look at some of the key findings, and how physician practices can react.

Physician Reimbursement Changes: 5 Ways to Gain Control

Aubrey Westgate
February 02, 2015 | Fee Schedule Survey, Contracts, Operations, Payers, Physician Compensation
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Five ways your medical practice can better control its payer contracts and boost reimbursement.

Becoming a Medical Home Can Boost Reimbursement

Aubrey Westgate
February 02, 2015 | Practice Models, ACO, Fee Schedule Survey, Payers, Physician Compensation
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If your medical practice is not already recognized as a Patient-Centered Medical Home, it may be time to jump on the bandwagon.

Insurance Exchanges and Your Practice: 5 Collection Tips

Aubrey Westgate
February 02, 2015 | Medical Billing & Collections, Fee Schedule Survey, Patients, Payers, Physician Compensation
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Many of the health insurance exchange plans include high deductibles, so getting these patients to pay their portion of your fee is critical.

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