Medical Billing & Collections

Don't let the ICD-10 transition hurt your practice's bottom line. Here are ways for you and your staff to survive and thrive during this major change.

As a physician, I will be the champion for the ICD-10 transition and keep staff calm. But even I have some serious reservations about what lies ahead.

While the decision to change to a direct-pay practice can be the most difficult one a physician can make, there is a second decision that is nearly as difficult: What to charge for services.

Medical practices face increasing difficulty collecting from payers, but off-loading the burden to patients is a big mistake.

Coding questions? We've got the answers.

The ICD-10 transition will require a significant change in mindset for practice administrators and staff alike. The time for excuses is past.

Fee-for-service reimbursement continues to fall. To survive, practices must explore new opportunities to boost revenue. Let us help you decide the right fit for your practice.

The results of our annual Fee Schedule Survey are here. See where your practice stacks up when it comes to payment for top codes.

For the January edition, RemitDATA's chief operating officer, Brian Fugere, explores the most common unexpected denials, with a focus on orthopedics.

Keeping A/R within healthy limits will become more difficult as health reform rolls out. Here are nine steps your practice can take to collect all that it is due.

Is billing for an "incident to" service really worth the extra 15 percent in reimbursements? In my opinion, there are more pitfalls than benefits.

It's time to take patient collections out of physicians' practices to truly have patients make responsible choices about their healthcare dollars.

Life lessons are all around us. When they happen in your practice, do you know how to identify them and apply what you've learned?

Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, all claims filed under government plans are now on equal footing with ERISA-governed health plan claims.

Where do you draw the line between good patient service and compromising your medical practice policies? Here's some advice.

Here are six questions your medical practice should ask a potential billing partner to help you thrive today and remain competitive in the future.

As healthcare reform initiatives pick up, malpractice risks may increase for many physicians.

Coding questions? We've got the answers.

The 2014 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule notes preliminary guidelines for receiving separate payment for chronic care management services, beginning in 2015.

No matter the roadblocks your practice will face this year, especially the ICD-10 transition, a robust financial reserve at year's end will help.

A new year brings new opportunities - and new challenges - to medical practices. Take our poll to let us know what challenge has you most concerned going into 2014.

Medical practices face many challenges in 2014. Here are 10 of the biggest.

This is the year Obamacare becomes real for the general public. The day of reckoning with their employers comes later. Physicians are in the middle.

Having gone through the medical system as a patient I came away with some insight into the lives of patients that billers usually don't see.

Here's a look back on what, technology-wise, made physicians' "hot" lists this year.