Medical Billing & Collections

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.

In a new ruling, CMS agrees to partially pay pending hospital claims in exchange for withdrawal of claims appeals.

Confused about how the healthcare system is going to change? Let's follow the money to find the answers, starting with recent news from CMS.

Do your staff members go to the bank each night, to make a cash deposit? Do you worry about their safety? Here's how to make that chore a thing of the past.

Updating and writing down your billing process provides multiple tools for you and your staff, and helps ensure payment success the first time.

I have a 95 percent success rate when attempting to gain “approval” for medically needed testing. Here are some of my success strategies.

Not only should your practice prepare to use new modifiers by Jan. 1, you might also experience even greater scrutiny of future modifier 59 claims.

Charge capture has evolved, from paper to PC to PDA and now to mobile applications, providing physicians with better access to patient data.

Do you have a set policy for sending your delinquent patients to collections? By implementing a clear policy, you have a greater chance of collecting on those accounts.

RemitDATA's vice president of product management, Aaron Hood, explores the most common unexpected denials at practices nationwide, focusing on endocrinology.

Small unpaid claims can add up to big problems for your medical practice. Here's how to find the best partner to collect what's owed for your medical services.

As physicians, we have fundamentally failed to clearly communicate to patients what we do, what we cannot do, how we do it, and why it costs what it does.

Though you may have taken a break from ICD-10 planning and prep when news of the delay first broke, it's time to get back to work.

Reviewing the definitions of modifiers first will ensure that applying a modifier goes from a game of chance to a sure thing.

Here are some strategies my medical practice has developed to get those unpaid patient balances off our books.

Performing an audit on your denials will provide a clear picture of where you need to focus your attention in the billing process.