Medical Billing & Collections

Here are strategies for surviving a potential surge in patients with Medicaid and high-deductible exchange plans.

Your practice may encounter more patients than usual this summer and fall. Here's how to prepare.

Sue Bowman of AHIMA discusses how ICD-10 got delayed, the true cost of waiting one year for implementation, and how to get your practice prepared.

The "recredentialing trap," strict payment reviews, and fingerprinting are all underway or on the horizon as ways payers are bullying physicians.

Know who you can turn to when you are continuously denied payment by an insurance company so that your practice can get paid all that it is due.

If your practice is looking to boost its profitability and spend more time with patients, automating your billing and collections may be a solution. Here's why.

Roughly half of all medical practices have implemented EHR, but they still have a long way to go in terms of meaningful use and recovery audit contractors.

Why one pediatric practice that received over $100,000 in increased payments due to an ACA initiative has to pay the money back.

Seeing the benefits of the ICD-10 transition will help you and your medical practice staff members embrace and prepare for the upcoming transition.

In medical practice, a cottage industry has developed, which is dedicated solely to legal “fault finding” without regard to equity.

Angie Comfort of AHIMA gives you quick tips on what you should do to prepare for ICD-10 in 2015, whether your practice was ready or not in 2014.

On May 1, Physicians Practice received an e-mail that contained the official statement from a CMS spokesperson regarding the new implementation date.

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

Whether you have one physician or 17,000 to prepare for the ICD-10 transition, here's how to get them invested in implementing the new coding system.

With physicians and practices in limbo on the ICD-10 transition, CMS reaffirmed its commitment to the code set and says a new deadline will be announced shortly.

Having at least another 18 months until ICD-10 becomes a reality can be a good thing for your medical practice. Here are four things to start doing today.

Despite how you feel about the ICD-10 delay, make it work for you, not against you. Here are five planning strategies to consider.

Payers are using deceptive methods to get medical practices to accept low rates and new plans. Don't fall into the trap.

New rules will now require Medicare enrollees who are classified as “high risk,” to subject themselves to fingerprint-based background checks.

Use this sample patient credit card authorization policy to ensure your medical practice is able to collect what it is owed.

In this podcast, consultant Susanne Madden shares how medical practices can store patient credit card numbers securely and effectively.

Here are four assessment areas your practice can use to develop training for the ICD-10 medical coding system transition.

If the government can make it appear that doctors are getting rich from Medicare payments, it will be easy to garner support to cut physician payments in the future.

Patient credits are part of the bigger picture of managing a healthy practice. Manage them right, and everyone walks away happy.

A medical practice director who worked hard to prepare for ICD-10 implementation says the delay comes at a heavy cost.