Medical Billing & Collections

The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion means more patients at your practice. Here’s how to accommodate them.

By collecting more payments at the time of service, physician practices can significantly improve financial viability.

To help manage out-of-network payments within your medical practice, start with these four best practices.

Here are some tips to divvying up the billing and front-desk responsibilities in a fair and balanced manner at your medical practice.

Physicians must collect payments patients often don’t understand or like and it is going to increase under the Affordable Care Act. The remedy is to add value.

A biller walks a tight rope when it comes to inter-office relationships. Here’s why.

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Patients often blame your practice when they have a balance due, but it is their responsibility and critical to your business' success. Here's how to bridge the divide.

Coding questions? We've got the answers.

Raemarie Jimenez of AAPC discusses common coding mistakes made by medical practices and how to avoid them during this webinar, recorded July 16, 2013.

Is the money your practice deserves floating out of the front door? Get it back by avoiding these common pitfalls.

Most practice staff would say the medical biller is more often than not in a bad mood. Here’s why.

Here's a five-step way to calculate the cost of your common procedures and decide if lower reimbursement is actually fatal to your medical practice.

When patients are wrongfully denied a claim and your medical practice has done all it can, there is one more place to turn: your state's insurance department.

What are the top five codes that are likely to lead to unexpected denials at your medical practice? Let Adam Atwood of RemitDATA tell you in this audio slideshow.

Here's a primer on ERISA, how it works, and what it means for you and your medical practice.

Here are tips to overcome the misinformation and runaround your medical practice staff often gets when verifying insurance to get closer to an accurate payment.

Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, physicians can expect to see more Medicaid patients, but not necessarily more reimbursement.

Here are the five best payers for medical practice claims in the U.S., according to athenahealth's 2013 PayerView rankings.

Here are the rankings of the best Blues in the U.S. for medical practice claims, according to athenahealth's 2013 PayerView data.

Here are the eight best major payers for medical practice claims, according to athenahealth's 2013 PayerView rankings.

Here are the best Medicaid payers for medical practice claims, according to athenahealth's 2013 PayerView rankings.

Here are the best Medicare payers for medical practice claims, according to athenahealth's 2013 PayerView rankings.

Here are the rankings of the best payers in the Midwestern U.S. for medical practice claims, according to athenahealth's 2013 PayerView data.

Here are the rankings of the best payers in the northeast U.S. for medical practice claims, according to athenahealth's 2013 PayerView data.