Medical Billing & Collections

The facts about IPPE

Using the front desk to improve collections

How to tell if your clearinghouse is worth keeping

Create a financial policy to boost patient collections

How to be more aggressive -- but fair -- when collecting

A conversation with billing experts on best practices

There are compelling reasons to maintain accurate, up-to-date patient accounts.

With paperwork piles getting ever higher, more physicians have been trying to buck the trend by charging their patients administrative fees.

Attorney Richard Scruggs, well known for his devastating attacks against tobacco companies, has turned his attention to healthcare.

Physicians with charity care programs must be careful to avoid the appearance that they are breaking anti-kickback rules by offering financial incentives, in the form of free or reduced-price care, in order to induce referrals.

Whether or not your practice has a full-time billing staff or outsources this function, billing remains the backbone of the revenue cycle in the practice.

As long as the carrier's incident-to rules are met, there's no problem. When the rules are broken, there's a problem.

Factoring offers you quick cash, but it comes at a steep price.

Physicals don't need to be a painful exercise in billing at your medical practice if you get the coding and reimbursement details right. Here's how to do it.

Pros, cons, and advice on using a lockbox

Be educated and advocate for yourself when it comes to working with Medicare carriers

Get advance guarantees of payment from patients' employers or insurers for out-of-state claims

What you need to know about third-party administrators

How to improve worker's comp billing and collections

How to fight denials and make appeals work

Don't work harder. Just collect what you're owed.

All about bonding your employees

Improve reimbursement through active management

How to use your unapplied account for the best collections

How to select an electronic claims processor