Access and Reimbursement

Over-treatment or low-value care represents approximately $75 to $100 billion in wasteful spending annually.

A highly effective and efficient way to engage with patients in danger of missing their recommended preventive services is text messaging.

A little attention to small billing mistakes can save your practice big money

If you let patients know from the start what you expect from them, you’re far more likely to get the money you’re asking for.

High-deductible health plans are on the rise. Here are 10 methods to ensure your practice collects from patients with these plans.

AI agents, offer a promising pathway for family clinics and other healthcare providers to mitigate claims denials, enhance reimbursement rates, improve patient experiences, and refocus their efforts on core healthcare services.

‘Winging it’ is not the right approach when providers integrate social determinants of health into care models.

The crucial decision of which ACO to join requires careful consideration of various factors.

How we cope with adversity will ultimately determine our mental and physical health.

The crux of payer-provider collaboration lies in alignment.

Patients aren't blameless in the current state of health care in America.

Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.

Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.

Less than 1 in 5 physicians and approximately 1 in ten residents were able to provide a price estimate within ±25% of true values across all surveyed costs, charges, and reimbursements.

Consider the puffer fish

Here are 11 ways you can, and should, engage in grassroots advocacy for your practice, your patients and yourself.

ASOCs are ushering in significant benefits for patients, shifting the healthcare paradigm to favorably impact care, cost, and communication.

Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.

Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.

Automation can play a large role in your coding strategy.

The two companies will provide consumers with a platform where they can compare drug prices.

Key strategies for profitability with new payment models.

With the right strategies, independent practices can ensure they are financially sustainable while continuing to provide high-quality care to their patients.

Growing demand for ASCs presents both opportunities and challenges, especially in terms of revenue cycle management and workforce.

A one-minute conversation can have an enormous impact.

Studies consistently show patients’ health outcomes are connected to their ability to access, afford and adhere to their medications.

While medications are one of the key tools physicians have for preventing and treating disease, there are financial, cultural, and structural barriers that prevent the prescriptions we write from being filled and used.

Advice to help your front office staff start the billing process off right.