Medical Billing & Collections

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.

How family physician Katharina Scharruhn and her partner-husband learned to treat their practice like a business.

Want to make the most of the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit? Make it a when and not an if at your medical practice.

Need a refresher on the major insurance types for staff at your practice? Here's a print and post guide for your office.

You can generate over $50 per Medicare patient per year for asymptomatic screens.

Don't let your practice be caught up in Medicare's recovery program. It's a simple matter to examine your own coding patterns and compare them to national utilization data.

By reviewing the denials your practice receives from insurance companies, you can tailor your training and internal procedures to remedy a majority of these.

Here's how to comply with all the Annual Wellness Visit requirements from CMS and avoid an audit disaster at your medical practice.

Are you aware of how much of your aging accounts receivable balances from secondary insurances that were never followed up on? It's time you investigate.

The age-old tug-of-war of ways to gather and retrieve data has played a big part in where healthcare is currently with its EHR systems.

Here is an easy and quick tip that will immediately increase your inflow with minimal time and effort from treating staff at your medical practice.

You've seen a patient that you thought had insurance that you accept, but it turns out you don't. What is the best course of action to take?

Patient refund requests surely come across your desk. Here's how to know when to cut a check and when to hold onto the overpayment temporarily.

Here's how to make sure your patients do not receive a bill when your practice has gone over either the insurance visit limit or number of visits limit.

Coding questions? We've got the answers.

There are five things you can be absolutely sure about when your medical billing vendor changes ownership. Here's how to prepare.

Looking for a simple tool to create a payment plan for your patients? Here's one to download and use at your medical practice.

Here's a simple form to download and use at your medical practice to set up a payment plan with patients.

Use this simple worksheet for better financial control at your private medical practice.

Want to take the pulse of your medical practice's finances? Try this easy-to-use tool to conduct a fiscal check-up on your office.

Most physicians have a limited amount of time to monitor the fiscal health of their practices. However, it is possible. Here are five quick measures to make the task easier.