Finance

If the government can make it appear that doctors are getting rich from Medicare payments, it will be easy to garner support to cut physician payments in the future.

Patient credits are part of the bigger picture of managing a healthy practice. Manage them right, and everyone walks away happy.

A medical practice director who worked hard to prepare for ICD-10 implementation says the delay comes at a heavy cost.

Whether they think it is good or bad news, savvy physicians will use the extra time to prepare their practices for the ICD-10 coding transition wisely.

Workers' compensation carriers are banking on the fact that at some point medical practices will give up and walk away.

Whether your medical practice was ready to implement ICD-10 in October 2014 or not, here's what you need to do to get ready for the transition in 2015.

Physicians and medical practice staff must be able to differentiate between preventative and diagnostic services in order to avoid a loss in revenue.

The ICD-10 implementation delay was cause for celebration for many medical practices, but it angered and frustrated many in the healthcare industry.

Robert Tennant, senior policy adviser of government affairs for the Medical Group Management Association, discusses the ICD-10 delay.

Congress decided that physicians need one more year to prepare for ICD-10. Here's what it means for your medical practice and the healthcare industry overall.

Sometimes insurance companies get between patients and their physicians; especially this time of year when health plans make changes.

Do you cultivate positive, working relationships with your key departments or vendors? If not, changing your approach might yield amazing results.

The 90-day “payment grace period” for exchange insured patients puts physicians at risk for 60 days if patients don't pay their premiums.

Payers know that correctly writing down every patient encounter is difficult for physicians, if not impossible. Therefore, exploiting this is easy for them.

Each day we learn more about how payers are processing claims. Here's what your medical practice needs to know.

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

Here are some very basic strategies that may help medical practices to do a better job of collecting payments from patients.

If it were possible to predict insurance payments, I wouldn’t be so overwhelmed by appeals and take backs.

Traditionally, physicians do not charge each other for medical care. Unfortunately, this belief does not seem to be well understood by all doctors.

The ICD-10 transition will require practices to spend time and money, but doing so now will keep your practice from having to commit even more time or money after October 1.

Insurance companies are being sneaky about keeping your money. Here are some of those secrets they'd rather you not know, and what you can do about it.

Your EHR and practice management system vendors are important partners in the ICD-10 transition, so be sure they are ready with these 15 questions.

Rural hospitals and their patients are particularly vulnerable to loss of funding. This small rule change could make a significant impact.

There's plenty to do to get your medical practice ready for ICD-10, but proper training tops the list.

Here are eight questions your medical practice should be asking when it comes to testing your claims submissions for the upcoming ICD-10 transition.