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Some efficient and coordinated scheduling of the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit can benefit patients and your medical practice.

Two presenters at this year's MGMA conference share their tips for how medical practices can thrive despite decreasing reimbursement and increasing overhead.

Is your medical practice staff taking the few minutes to verify patient benefits? If not, it could cost you thousands of dollars and an aged out A/R.

The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) recently defined a “high-performing health system.” Does your health system make the cut?

Get answers to all of your ICD-10 conversion questions from Jackie Stack of the AAPC in this on-demand webinar.

Coding guidance on admission codes; subsequent care codes; and coding volume outliers.

Do you know how insurance companies are treating your patients? Here are some areas to be aware of and how to work with payers so that everyone wins.

Telemedicine is rapidly gaining acceptance. Here's how to get paid for using telehealth services and how to determine if it is a good fit for your office.

When reimbursements are low for your workers' compensation patients, it may not be the payers' fault. Here's how to make sure you are paid what you deserve.

While EHRs have the ability to reduce medical errors, the potential to create coding and other errors must be constantly monitored.

As anti-fraud efforts step up, there's little doubt that the OIG will be looking at your practice. Make sure your patient records accurately reflect physician services.

The Medicare Annual Wellness Visit's Health Risk Assessments provide opportunities for ancillary income for physicians.

Though CMS just delayed the ICD-10 implementation date; physicians should start preparing for the switch now. Are you?

How many of your patients only have Medicare and not secondary or supplemental insurance? More than you'd think. Here's how to help them manage their account.

Here's a list of what your medical practice is required to provide, and what you'll get reimbursed for, regarding Medicare Annual Wellness Visits.

How family physician Katharina Scharruhn and her partner-husband learned to treat their practice like a business.

Want to make the most of the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit? Make it a when and not an if at your medical practice.

Need a refresher on the major insurance types for staff at your practice? Here's a print and post guide for your office.

You can generate over $50 per Medicare patient per year for asymptomatic screens.

Don't let your practice be caught up in Medicare's recovery program. It's a simple matter to examine your own coding patterns and compare them to national utilization data.

Including three precautionary steps in your evaluation process of a disability and medical liability insurer for your practice is a worthy investment.

By reviewing the denials your practice receives from insurance companies, you can tailor your training and internal procedures to remedy a majority of these.

Here's how to comply with all the Annual Wellness Visit requirements from CMS and avoid an audit disaster at your medical practice.

The best way to optimize your sales price, no matter what the market conditions are like, is to optimize your operations.

Are you aware of how much of your aging accounts receivable balances from secondary insurances that were never followed up on? It's time you investigate.