Medical Billing & Collections

New payment models can boost medical practice revenue. Here's how to take advantage.

See where your medical practice stacks up when it comes to reimbursement for top CPT codes on a regional and national scale in our 2012 Fee Schedule Survey results.

Your fee schedule is the heart of your medical practice. Now is the time to get your allowable rates updated and published to your staff and billing department.

A new year is the perfect time to be proactive and ensure your medical practice is compliance with all the regulations it faces.

Here are five legal issues private practices should be sure to follow in the new year to avoid potential pitfalls.

Learn what questions to ask and what to look for when negotiating insurance contracts at your medical practice.

A one-year delay in the proposed Medicare SGR payment cut is one of three wins of the fiscal cliff deal reached in Washington, D.C., for physicians.

Attorney Rachel Rose provides some details and frequent issues for physicians regarding Recovery Audit Contractor audits.

Feel like there's no time to manage your medical practice? Here's how to spend five hours a week and increase inflow while still allowing you to treat patients.

Nonphysician providers can help counteract the physician shortage, but be sure to consider these important legal requirements when employing them.

With December upon us, we are just a few short weeks away the new year. Is your medical practice prepared with the necessary resources to turn the calendar?

Downcoding, overstaffing, and lack of follow-up on denials are all possible places your medical practice is losing precious revenue.

Report diagnoses to tell the payer why a service was performed, support medical necessity, and avoid having your claims denied.

Here are common areas of inefficiency at medical practices to address today to ensure continued financial health.

Most practices have payment plans in place to meet patient demands, but many of these plans are lacking.

Want to avoid a larger audit at your medical practice? Self-auditing is a great first step for you and your physicians.

Does your medical practice have one employee that has all of the answers? Here's why this is a dangerous process to support.

Consultant Elizabeth Woodcock, a presenter at the MGMA12 Conference in San Antonio, discusses tips to improve patient collections at your medical practice.

If you have patients who've been hurt by a work-related injury or in a car accident and are using their private insurance, you may not be paid for your services.

As part of a False Claims Act settlement, medical practices may enter into a corporate integrity agreement. Here's your guide to what that may entail.

Clear policies and processes for handling denials can affect your bottom line by improving your revenue cycle, decreasing staff costs, and increasing cash flow.

Medical practices need to start looking at the AWV as a business and healthcare opportunity. Offering staff bonuses to schedule the visits may help.

If you aren't asking your patients about insurance changes when they make an appointment at your medical practice, you are already losing money.

Though there's little physicians can do about declining reimbursements, some of you are finding other ways to boost revenue.

Here are six basic principles to protect funds coming into a medical practice from embezzlement as well as some red flags to watch.