Finance

The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion means more patients at your practice. Here’s how to accommodate them.

Despite all of Obamacare’s hype, politics, spin, and misrepresentation on both sides, wise doctors can win big.

By collecting more payments at the time of service, physician practices can significantly improve financial viability.

To help manage out-of-network payments within your medical practice, start with these four best practices.

Here are some tips to divvying up the billing and front-desk responsibilities in a fair and balanced manner at your medical practice.

Physicians must collect payments patients often don’t understand or like and it is going to increase under the Affordable Care Act. The remedy is to add value.

A biller walks a tight rope when it comes to inter-office relationships. Here’s why.

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The polar opposite of marijuana laws, waivers for accountable care acts are allowed at the federal level, but can run into problems in individual states.

Patients often blame your practice when they have a balance due, but it is their responsibility and critical to your business' success. Here's how to bridge the divide.

Nine of the 32 pioneer ACOs are calling it quits. The problem is execution, not concept.

How can physicians move from traditional fee-for-service to value-based care? It takes nine steps, says one physician.

Coding questions? We've got the answers.

Raemarie Jimenez of AAPC discusses common coding mistakes made by medical practices and how to avoid them during this webinar, recorded July 16, 2013.

Is the money your practice deserves floating out of the front door? Get it back by avoiding these common pitfalls.

Why investing in business intelligence technology for data analytics may be a smart move for small medical groups.

Most practice staff would say the medical biller is more often than not in a bad mood. Here’s why.

Watch this video to learn how participating in an ACO is affecting physicians and staff at a five-physician practice in Hunt Valley, Md.

Here's a five-step way to calculate the cost of your common procedures and decide if lower reimbursement is actually fatal to your medical practice.

When patients are wrongfully denied a claim and your medical practice has done all it can, there is one more place to turn: your state's insurance department.

What are the top five codes that are likely to lead to unexpected denials at your medical practice? Let Adam Atwood of RemitDATA tell you in this audio slideshow.

Here's a primer on ERISA, how it works, and what it means for you and your medical practice.

Here are tips to overcome the misinformation and runaround your medical practice staff often gets when verifying insurance to get closer to an accurate payment.

Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, physicians can expect to see more Medicaid patients, but not necessarily more reimbursement.

Here are the five best payers for medical practice claims in the U.S., according to athenahealth's 2013 PayerView rankings.