Finance

What is time-driven activity based cost accounting and how does it help your practice understand the cost of seeing a patient?

An in-depth look at some of the most common billing mistakes in health care and what practices can do to avoid them.

Daylight Saving Time is good time to check on things at the office, such as batteries and old equipment that need replacing.

Medical practices are carrying more financial waste than they realize, according to experts. Here are a few areas to trim the fat.

Look at the easy stuff to reduce the cost of overhead at your practice and go from there. There's a lot of money to be saved.

As more and more payers offer value-based contracts, how can practices negotiate favorable terms in this strange new territory?

Physicians have to jump through more hoops than ever to be paid. Is there an end in sight?

Every penny matters in health care, so be sure physicians and staff have a grasp on how that money flows through the practice.

Healthcare organizations are always looking to save money, but physicians rarely know the effect of their treatments or medications. Here's how to change that.

There are two ways to grow your medical practice. The first is to acquire new patients. The second is to retain your existing patients.

The Healthcare Administrative Technology Association talks to us at HIMSS18 about familiar pain points for practices.

In this month's coding column, our expert answers whether or not you need to include vitals when coding a patient encounter.

If you aren't a patient isn't on your insurance panel, for whatever reason, how can you expect to be fairly paid?

You don’t know how much money you have in the bank. What if I told you, you can calculate a projection of your inflow for this month?

In this month's coding column, expert Bill Dacey says requirements around the new code 93793 are unknown.

Stay on top of your collection practices using training, technology, and communication.

Identify those small, insignificant areas of lost revenue; you'll be surprised how quickly these areas will add up.

Dr. Melissa Young shares with us why January is her least favorite time of the year - from cold weather to unmet deductibles.

Readers' favorite practice management "Pearls" articles from the past year to help improve their practices.

Maintaining practice revenues is increasingly tough in the era of high-deductible health plans. Here are nine tips to improve patient collections.

Here are 10 relevant financial reports each physician at your practice should see … whether they read them or not.

Here are nine tips to bring electronic payment into your practice while not interfering with the best care for patients.

Knowing and understanding your payer mix is critical in your business operations, and overall inflow.

When do you use modifier 25 or 57? Coding expert John Verhovshek explains the difference when coding an E&M service.

What would you say if I told you that the billing department should be the heart of your business?