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Practice tip of the week: Collecting past-due patient balances

Renee Dowling is a compliance auditor at Sansum Clinic, LLC, in Santa Barbara, California.

An internal medical coding and billing audit can ensure a practice is billing correctly.

What is a medical coding and billing audit?

Practice tip of the week: The basics of incident-to billing

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Here are six basic requirements to meet incident-to guidelines and get properly reimbursed for your care.

The Basics of Incident-To Billing

Expert advice for turning your back office staff into billing and collections all-stars.

Six back office billing strategies

Advice to help your front office staff start the billing process off right.

Four front office billing tips

Martin Trautschold is CEO of 1-800 Notify

Traditional paper statements and calls have been increasingly ineffective.

Tech Talk: Is it time for an automated bill pay system? 

Carl Knopke, MD, FOMA, FAAFP is the medical director of Inland Empire Weight Loss in Riverside, California. He is board certified in Obesity Medicine and Family Medicine. He is an assistant professor of Family Medicine at the University of California Riverside School of Medicine and a member of the Board of Trustees for the 

His primary medical interests include treating diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and arthritis using the tenets of obesity medicine. He also has special interests in psychiatry, psychology and exercise physiology and how they can be applied to treat obesity.

Though similar to other specialties, some billing codes are unique for behavioral therapy.

Billing and coding in obesity medicine

Every medical practice will have patients with unpaid balances, but those that have smart collection strategies in place will be better off.

Collecting past-due patient balances

Andria Jacobs is the chief operating officer for PCG Software and has more than 25 years’ experience in the healthcare industry, encompassing both administrative and clinical arenas. Prior to joining PCG, Ms. Jacobs was the administrative director, medical management for VertiHealth Administrators. Previously, she was an independent consultant in ambulatory care and practice management, where her clients have included hospitals, physician groups, and the University of California, Los Angeles

CMS has been playing hardball regarding claims, which should keep everyone honest while saving the federal government money.

Medical Billing & Collections