Medical Billing & Collections

The best advice for practices struggling with patient collections is to have a plan, make sure everyone knows the plan, and then follow the plan.

As patients shoulder more of their healthcare costs, practices must step up patient payment collections efforts. Here are some tips.

One recent Physicians Practice article noted the benefits of ICD-10. Still, readers expressed skepticism.

Does your medical practice receive a lot of patient complaints about bills? Here's how to prevent such issues from occurring.

Want to save time and boost reimbursement at your medical practice? Offer shared medical visits. Here's how.

A recent interaction with a patient over who should and shouldn't pay copays due to income got me thinking about how income equality affects healthcare costs.

Are patient statements out of control at your medical practice? Here are some tips to clean those up and get paid what you are owed.

Robert Tennant of the Medical Group Management Association offers tips to practices to create a strategy for the ICD-10 transition.

Despite the doom and gloom associated with ICD-10, the new codes could actually provide better care for patients and better reimbursement to physicians.

Don't let health insurance changes in 2014 harm your bottom line. Here are three action items to consider.

Betty Hovey of AAPC explains the looming medical coding transition to ICD-10 and how to prepare your medical practice.

A lesson in staying calm when your day as a medical biller is nothing but frustrating.

Changes to health insurance plans are hard to keep up with - for patients and even for physicians.

Not being paid for workers' compensation claims? Here are a few areas you can look at to make sure your medical practice is in compliance and will be paid.

Insurer denials for expensive diagnostics are often caused by physician failure to follow simple rules.

Payer negotiations can favor medical practices if they take steps to know more about themselves and their patients.

Great documentation at your medical practice will boost revenue. Is your practice doing all it can to ensure physicians are documenting correctly?

As we begin to correct bugs in health insurance exchanges, it is time to also give some thought to reducing the amount paid by each solo physician to get paid.

If not knowing how your practice is doing overall keeps you awake at night, it's time to start monitoring eight simple metrics for measure.

Coding Questions? We've Got the Answers.

From billing to compliance to human resources, there is a multitude of ways you can outsource key practice functions to lighten your load.

With ICD-10 only a year away, your medical practice needs to build ICD-10 into its compliance plans for 2014 and beyond.

The one thing Obamacare has done is put everyone in the same boat, a boat called limbo. We don’t really know how it’s all going to work.

When a payer started allowing patients to pay is providers directly, collections improved almost overnight for one practice.

The Health Care Cost Institute reports patient out-of-pocket expenses will rise 4.8 percent to $3,072 for a privately insured family of four.