Billing & Collections

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

Traditional paper statements and calls have been increasingly ineffective.

The risk of malpractice and negligence is hurting the medical billing industry. Here’s a brief article talking about various risks involved with these threats to practices, clinics, and coders.

There’s no doubt prior authorizations are a major time suck. Here are five ways to make them a little less onerous.

Though similar to other specialties, some billing codes are unique for behavioral therapy.

As physician practices look for ways to build volume and engagement, it’s critical to thoughtfully consider it all from the point of view of patients and consumers.

New legislation, as well as changes in patient expectations, present a host of challenges and opportunities for getting paid for service this year.

Many physician practices are still running their RCM program like it’s 2019. It’s time to get up to speed with the ‘new normal’ in claims and collections.

Miscoding and fraudulent billing can destroy a medical practice. Use these tips to get robust oversight of your medical billing and coding in place.

It’s critical that independent practices make sure that they are laying the groundwork to make telehealth a robust part of their care delivery and their bottom line.

Compliance measures can assist healthcare industry participants avoid potential liability, whether civil or criminal, under the False Claims Act.

Every medical practice will have patients with unpaid balances, but those that have smart collection strategies in place will be better off.

How reinforcing care coordination can create value and improve patient outcomes.

What physicians and practice managers need to know.

Four specific and proactive measures a practice can implement to better position its organization for long-term success.

Physicians Practice® spoke with Krisi Hutson, the product line director at Availity, to discuss some of the ways in which she has been seeing providers help their patients to avoid surprise billing scenarios.

A compliance program is important in this day-and-age, thanks to increasing amounts of healthcare fraud as well as payment reform.

Here are six financial indicators that physicians and practice leaders/administrators should review and discuss each month.

HHS-OIG items of interest for providers.

What 2021 might bring for value-based care practices.

Plus, what needs to happen in order to establish value-based care models.

Some of the risks involved in value-based are practice models.

The differentiating factor in the payment models of value-based healthcare.

Independent practices are facing a multitude of challenges just to survive today.

Where value-based care currently exists in adoption among healthcare professionals.

Physicains Practice speaks with David Cohen, chief product and technology officer of Greenway Health, about telehealth billing and RCM strategies for 2021.

The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association estimated that healthcare fraud costs the nation $68 billion annually.

What value-based care is and how it differs from other forms of physician reimbursement.

What operations can be streamlined to reduce financial distress in a practice.

One of the complications physician practices faced in the pandemic was a high turnover rate. In this clip, Chad Beste, a partner in BDO’s Healthcare Advisory Practice, discusses how this ties into financial distress and what you can do to reduce its impact.