Medical Billing & Collections

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.

Some efficient and coordinated scheduling of the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit can benefit patients and your medical practice.

Two presenters at this year's MGMA conference share their tips for how medical practices can thrive despite decreasing reimbursement and increasing overhead.

Is your medical practice staff taking the few minutes to verify patient benefits? If not, it could cost you thousands of dollars and an aged out A/R.

Get answers to all of your ICD-10 conversion questions from Jackie Stack of the AAPC in this on-demand webinar.

Coding guidance on admission codes; subsequent care codes; and coding volume outliers.

Do you know how insurance companies are treating your patients? Here are some areas to be aware of and how to work with payers so that everyone wins.

Telemedicine is rapidly gaining acceptance. Here's how to get paid for using telehealth services and how to determine if it is a good fit for your office.

When reimbursements are low for your workers' compensation patients, it may not be the payers' fault. Here's how to make sure you are paid what you deserve.

While EHRs have the ability to reduce medical errors, the potential to create coding and other errors must be constantly monitored.

As anti-fraud efforts step up, there's little doubt that the OIG will be looking at your practice. Make sure your patient records accurately reflect physician services.

The Medicare Annual Wellness Visit's Health Risk Assessments provide opportunities for ancillary income for physicians.

Though CMS just delayed the ICD-10 implementation date; physicians should start preparing for the switch now. Are you?

How many of your patients only have Medicare and not secondary or supplemental insurance? More than you'd think. Here's how to help them manage their account.

Here's a list of what your medical practice is required to provide, and what you'll get reimbursed for, regarding Medicare Annual Wellness Visits.