Revenue Cycle Management

Submission of incomplete or inaccurate claims results in claim denials, delayed payments, and additional work for staff. Here's how you can minimize claim denials and ensure timely payments for your practice.

Medical practices continue to be squeezed by increasing costs and decreasing reimbursement, emphasizing the need for better clinical coding and editing technology that can improve claims even before they’re submitted.

Adding appropriate technology to your practice can have profound effects on the well-being of your operations, allowing your workforce to focus on what they do best while you concentrate on patient care.

Increase your medical practice's revenue by understanding payer reimbursement tactics.

Physician practices can use physician relationship management technology to recoup lost revenue and improve patient outcomes.

A strategic plan should be a living and breathing document. Here are 10 ways to ensure your plan is a road map to success.

Every penny counts.

Denials are a painful - but preventable - financial drain on practices. 

Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer: promptly and properly resubmitting claims is crucial to your bottom line.

Ensure your practice’s long-term health by educating patients about their financial responsibility and staff on how to improve medical billing and collections.

How to boost revenue in the new year.

What steps have physicians taken to boost revenue at their practices? Physicians Practice's annual compensation survey answers this question and more.

Revenue cycle management tips to enhance cash flow under the 2019 Quality Payment Program Final Rule.

When the punishment of Sisyphus is actually preferable...

If your profit is suddenly on a lower trajectory, resist the instinct to attempt a quick fix. Here’s what to do instead. 

A line of credit can help medical practices weather cash flow ups and downs.

Understanding the kinds of costs, and tracking them, will help you better manage your practice’s finances. 

How to make sense of the dollars and cents at a physician practice.

How do you post charges, payments, and adjustments in value-based payment models?

Expert advice for turning your back office staff into billing and collections all-stars.

Many practices assume their ancillaries are profitable, yet often lack the systems needed to conduct a proper analysis.

When determining the value of a practice, several factors should be considered, including historical growth, forecasting future performance, and practice size.

Here are nine tips that can help physicians maximize revenues and sail smoothly through tax season into next year.

What is time-driven activity based cost accounting and how does it help your practice understand the cost of seeing a patient?

An in-depth look at some of the most common billing mistakes in health care and what practices can do to avoid them.

Medical practices are carrying more financial waste than they realize, according to experts. Here are a few areas to trim the fat.

As more and more payers offer value-based contracts, how can practices negotiate favorable terms in this strange new territory?

Every penny matters in health care, so be sure physicians and staff have a grasp on how that money flows through the practice.

There are two ways to grow your medical practice. The first is to acquire new patients. The second is to retain your existing patients.

It is important to evaluate whether you want to consolidate your medical practice’s position or find ways to grow.