April 16th 2024
With the right strategies, independent practices can ensure they are financially sustainable while continuing to provide high-quality care to their patients.
April 12th 2024
To help practices prepare for their value-based care transition, here are three top considerations for success.
April 3rd 2024
Generation Z is driving changes to patient engagement and payment.
March 29th 2024
Navigating payer denials requires the most expertise to handle within revenue cycle management
March 26th 2024
Cash-based health care is a win-win for vulnerable groups and primary care providers.
Balance Billing and Surprise Billing: Developing Issues
If you aren't a patient isn't on your insurance panel, for whatever reason, how can you expect to be fairly paid?
Why Practice Owners Should Project Inflow Monthly
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?
An Important Financial Metric Your Practice Should Track
Instead of funneling a bunch of capital into your practice on a monthly basis, how about cleaning up your DSO?
What You Need to Know About Office-Based Surgery Laws
A brief overview of laws and issues related to office based surgical practices.
Your List of Lost Revenue for Last Year
Identify those small, insignificant areas of lost revenue; you'll be surprised how quickly these areas will add up.
This Doctor's Least Favorite Time of Year
Dr. Melissa Young shares with us why January is her least favorite time of the year - from cold weather to unmet deductibles.
9 Priorities for Practice Management in 2018
Looking to set your long-term goals for the coming year? Here are a few that will help get you started.
Coding for Annual Wellness Visits
This month's coding questions look at coding for transition of care for a nursing facility patient and on Annual Wellness visits.
Doctors' Captive Insurance Companies Causing Headaches
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 Your Vision to Grow Practice Revenue
Amplifying a practice's vision should be a key goal when developing any messaging strategy, yet many physicians struggle to do this.
9 Tips to Improve Patient Collections
Maintaining practice revenues is increasingly tough in the era of high-deductible health plans. Here are nine tips to improve patient collections.
The Madness of a New Type of Practice Model
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!
Preparing Your Practice's Annual Business Game Plan
With year-end coming up fast, now is the time to assess your business practices. Here are some thoughts.
10 Medical Practice Financial Reports Docs Need to See
Here are 10 relevant financial reports each physician at your practice should see … whether they read them or not.
How to Embrace E-payment with Caring and Compassion
Here are nine tips to bring electronic payment into your practice while not interfering with the best care for patients.
Coding Questions on TCM Services, Code 99358
Coding expert Bill Dacey answers your latest coding questions, including an inquiry on how to bill for TCM services.
ICD-10 Coding Questions Answered
For this month's coding column, we get a few ICD-10 specific questions on BMI and well child visits.
Access to Care: What It Means in the U.S. and Abroad
As the healthcare system in the U.S. undergoes a shift under MACRA, it's important to look at "access to care" and what it means.
Five Terms to Know Before Applying for a Business Loan
Physicians applying for a business loan for their practice should know what they are getting themselves into before starting the process.
Eliminate Unnecessary Steps in the Patient Path
Look for areas to improve patient satisfaction, such as removing or reducing the time patients spend in the waiting room.
Overpayment Requests Continue to Confound Practices
In our recurring blog "Inbox," we also get reader feedback on payers not requesting overpayments and the biggest HIPAA incidents of 2016.
The Medicare Contractor Who Stole Christmas
Sometimes CMS can unjustly revoke a provider's billing privileges. Here are a few examples.
Complex Finance Reporting at a Small Practice is Doable
There are many reasons for small practices to use complex finance reporting technologies to analyze data. Here are a few.
Have Your ACA Plan Processes in Place for the New Year
Regardless of your political thoughts, no one knows what, when and how the ACA plans are going to play out. Make sure you're prepared.
Who Can Bill Advanced Care Planning Codes?
This month's coding column is about whether or not one or more physicians of different specialties can bill the advanced care planning codes.
Healthcare Needs More than One Moonshot
In order for there to be a "Cancer Moonshot," healthcare needs to see advancements in the operational side of the industry, too.
Physician Income Trends Shifting Favorably for Primary Care
Primary-care physicians are still making less than subspecialists. Is that about to change in the shift to value-based care?
6 Things to Know About the 2017 Fee Schedule Final Rule
The 2017 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Final Rule has been finalized and will take effect Jan. 1, 2017. Here's what you should know.
The Race to MACRA and Value
Is your practice ready for the new Medicare payment systems coming in January 2017? Now is the time to develop a plan.
5 Tips to Get Paid from Late Paying Patients
Some patients are going to give you trouble when it comes to paying on time. Here are some tips to get what you've earned.