Medical Billing & Collections

As the New Year approaches, it is best to re-verify patients' insurance benefits to avoid a poor customer experience.

Assessing your medical practice for risks and determining the likelihood and severity of impact will help you determine the most important areas to focus on.

By monitoring a few simple areas in your practice, you are more likely to financially stay on target and be successful.

Here are three general processes your practice should take into consideration when building its CDI program for better documentation and coding.

CDI will be important with ICD-10 to ensure your practice is staying on top of the clinical documentation and accurate coding. Here's what you need to know.

RemitDATA's Aaron Hood explores the most common unexpected denials at practices nationwide, with a special focus on internal medicine.

Our practice does internal chart reviews on our physicians for coding accuracy. What do you feel is an appropriate passing score?

Anders Gilberg of the MGMA discusses your practice's obligation to accept federal or state exchange plans and how to manage them properly.

As the health exchange open enrollment period begins, here are some tips for managing new health insurance plans better than your practice did in 2014.

Utilizing practice data and becoming a "data whisperer" is your best course to solve problems that creep up in your practice.

Payment software could boost revenue and improve efficiencies at your practice. Here's how to get on board.

RemitDATA's Aaron Hood explores the most common unexpected denials at practices nationwide, with a special focus on pediatrics.

Combining forces to work as a team will increase your practice's chances of getting paid, and can actually decrease workload.

A change by CMS to its claims submission process for Medicare Advantage affects both physicians and their practices. Here's what you need to know.

If your practice hasn't already initiated a compliance program, here are four ways to begin.

In this podcast, healthcare consultant Craig Greenberg shares three tasks every practice manager should complete before the end of 2014.

To truly be ready for the ICD-10 transition, start your communications now: with your physicians, your staff, and your tech vendors.

The rules for being an out-of-network provider with California's new healthcare exchange plans just changed. Here's what you need to know.

Effective patient collections are becoming more critical to the financial health of your practice. Here are several strategies to help your practice get paid.

Keeping your team informed of administrative policies will help keep billing and collection errors in check.

A practice administrator shares his approach to collecting patient copays, deductibles, and payment for canceled or missed appointments.

Reporting vaccine administration can be tricky. Practices should review most recent updates and be aware of differences between commercial and federal payers.

RemitDATA's Aaron Hood explores the most common unexpected denials at practices nationwide, with a special focus on psychiatry and neurology.

In the outpatient setting, physicians should never assign a diagnosis unless that diagnosis has been confirmed by diagnostic testing, or is otherwise certain.