Payers

Pay-for-performance programs are beginning to shift to emphasize outcomes. Here's what your practice needs to know about new initiatives.

A lesson in staying calm when your day as a medical biller is nothing but frustrating.

Changes to health insurance plans are hard to keep up with - for patients and even for physicians.

Not being paid for workers' compensation claims? Here are a few areas you can look at to make sure your medical practice is in compliance and will be paid.

Payer negotiations can favor medical practices if they take steps to know more about themselves and their patients.

MGMA executives share recent data on physician concerns about the new healthcare insurance exchange program.

If not knowing how your practice is doing overall keeps you awake at night, it's time to start monitoring eight simple metrics for measure.

Penny Noyes of Health Business Navigators discusses the typical components in payer agreements, and those that might cause practices trouble.

The Health Care Cost Institute reports patient out-of-pocket expenses will rise 4.8 percent to $3,072 for a privately insured family of four.

Think it's unreasonable to expect good customer service from your medical practice's billing department? Not only is it reasonable, you should require it.

How does a proposed data hub for newly-ensured patients affect your practice? Hint: It has to do with cybersecurity and HIPAA.

Your patients may be asking about health insurance exchanges. Here's how to help direct them to the right information.

While there is little to recommend this film overall, the idea of humans desperate for healthcare is not a very futuristic idea at all.

Don't commit to ACO participation before doing your homework. Here are seven critical questions to ask.

Initial estimates of new patients through health insurance exchanges are good for physicians, but maybe not so good for healthcare on a larger scale.

There are at least four areas to review on a monthly basis to reduce denials at your medical practice.

The creation of new health insurance exchanges comes with new challenges for physicians, but perhaps not immediately, say the experts.

Physician and author Elizabeth Lee Vliet says the real goal behind the latest healthcare reform delay is a federal push toward a single-payer system of care.

A recent survey suggests most physicians don't support efforts to move away from fee-for-service reimbursement. Do you?

If you are an independently minded physician, take heart. There is a way to work with new quality standards and still retain your autonomy.

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

Two elements of the Affordable Care Act - the individual mandate and insurance exchanges - are making news and have implications for physicians.

How can physicians move from traditional fee-for-service to value-based care? It takes nine steps, says one physician.

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.