Revenue Cycle Management

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.

If you aren't a patient isn't on your insurance panel, for whatever reason, how can you expect to be fairly paid?

You don’t know how much money you have in the bank. What if I told you, you can calculate a projection of your inflow for this month?

Instead of funneling a bunch of capital into your practice on a monthly basis, how about cleaning up your DSO?

A brief overview of laws and issues related to office based surgical practices.

Identify those small, insignificant areas of lost revenue; you'll be surprised how quickly these areas will add up.

Dr. Melissa Young shares with us why January is her least favorite time of the year - from cold weather to unmet deductibles.

Looking to set your long-term goals for the coming year? Here are a few that will help get you started.

This month's coding questions look at coding for transition of care for a nursing facility patient and on Annual Wellness visits.

Here's how many captive insurance company owners, including many doctors, are being exposed to expensive legal defense costs on top of huge surprise tax bills.

Amplifying a practice's vision should be a key goal when developing any messaging strategy, yet many physicians struggle to do this.

Maintaining practice revenues is increasingly tough in the era of high-deductible health plans. Here are nine tips to improve patient collections.

This doctor finds out about a new type of practice payment model - an idea that's completely foreign to her. Third-party payers stay away!