Finance

Failing to adopt widely available billing and collections technology can cost medical practices big. Here's how to do it right.

Getting paid by insurance companies can be like fighting a war. Here are my top five weapons to manage accounts receivable and get what it is owed from payers.

You can't order a coffee today and pay tomorrow, so don't let patients leave your medical practice without some kind of payment arrangement.

When it comes to audits, "payers are sneaky and relentless, because they have everything to gain and nothing to lose," notes consultant Angela Miller.

Our 2013 Staff Salary Survey results can help you determine how your practice’s reimbursement model compares to practices of similar sizes.

Primary-care and annual wellness visits are essential to the future of healthcare quality and decreased costs, and third-party providers shouldn't disrupt that.

How an internal coding audit will help your practice prepare for a real one.

A look at how the Medicare Shared Savings Program has developed since its inception.

Our 2013 Staff Salary Survey results indicate how practice size, location, and staffing relate to ACO participation.

AHIMA's Kathy DeVault explains how to work with payers on the ICD-10 transition, including use of unspecified codes, and how to best prepare providers.

Patients are in a panic over shifts in their insurance plans and looking to you for deciphering. Here's how to provide great customer service to assist them.

Everybody at your practice has a role in the ICD-10 transition, but that doesn't mean they should all be coders. AHIMA's Kathy DeVault explains.

Healthcare consultant Audrey "Christie" McLaughlin provides guidance on standardized remit codes to help calculate your medial practice's denial rate.

CMS is standing firm on its 2014 ICD-10 implementation, while also dealing with the effects of sequestration and the challenge of reaching smaller practices.

In this podcast from the AHIMA ICD-10 summit in Baltimore, coding expert Cindy Seel shares how practices can get physicians prepared for the transition.

Here are some tips that have saved my medical practice's bottom line more than once over the last 20 years. It's all about getting and staying organized.

Medical practices and the pros and cons of outsourcing revenue cycle management needs.

With the right approach, physicians might secure better reimbursements from their payers.

It is critical that you understand and determine how future reimbursement models will affect your organization.

Growing gross revenue is not the only way to increase profits. Reducing expenses can play a big role.

Some physicians, trying to remain independent, are experimenting with subscription-based models of payment.

Stop cash flow from being a regular issue at your medical practice with these four tips to minimize the time between seeing a patient and getting paid.

Medicare's Annual Wellness Visits are a critical element for primary-care physicians to document ICD-9 codes on their Medicare Advantage patients.

There's not always a direct correlation between an ICD-9 and ICD-10 code. So providers should take steps to mitigate risks with the conversion.

Thoughts on the difficulty of juggling physicians' requirements, patients' demands, co-workers' needs, and still getting your job done as a medical biller.