Billing & Collections

The best advice for practices struggling with patient collections is to have a plan, make sure everyone knows the plan, and then follow the plan.

As patients shoulder more of their healthcare costs, practices must step up patient payment collections efforts. Here are some tips.

Does your medical practice receive a lot of patient complaints about bills? Here's how to prevent such issues from occurring.

Want to save time and boost reimbursement at your medical practice? Offer shared medical visits. Here's how.

The latest physician compensation survey from ECG Management Consultants highlights increasing emphasis on value, quality of care.

A recent interaction with a patient over who should and shouldn't pay copays due to income got me thinking about how income equality affects healthcare costs.

Are patient statements out of control at your medical practice? Here are some tips to clean those up and get paid what you are owed.

More than ever, and while you may not want to accept it, practicing medicine is running a business. And you have to make changes that reflect this thinking.

Don't let health insurance changes in 2014 harm your bottom line. Here are three action items to consider.

Now is the season for planning and creating a strategy for a practice that can survive the future. Here are six roles to fill at your office today.

How one medical practiced saved more than $390,000 and got financially stable.

How one physician transitioned to this new practice model and why he did it.

If not knowing how your practice is doing overall keeps you awake at night, it's time to start monitoring eight simple metrics for measure.

From determining the true cost of services to adding technology and transparency to processes, there are several ways to improve your revenue cycle management.

Fraud involving the Automated Clearing House (ACH) network and small businesses is growing. Here's how practices can protect their accounts.

While many technology vendor package deals provide several advantages, others have some big drawbacks. Make sure you do your homework before investing.

Simple procedures can add a substantial amount of weight to per-patient revenue at your medical practice.

An active line of credit helps guarantee that a practice's cash needs are met. Here's how it works and how to get one.

Is your EHR helping or hurting your medical practice? How about your bottom line? Share your thoughts.

This year the most successful practices are still trending in the direction of preventative healthcare rather than a reactive model.

Sometimes learning from true stories of physicians who lost assets due to poor planning is the best way to kick start your own asset protection plan.

Here's some simple guidance, from the OIG and a healthcare attorney, on suspicious sales pitches physicians might receive regarding a joint venture.

There's a myth that physicians aren't always good at business. But if they use the medical decision-making skills they have, they can be.

A pathology lab's collection process reveals big mistakes other medical practices can learn from.

What bundled payments are, how they work, and how they might affect your practice.