Revenue Cycle Management

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!

With year-end coming up fast, now is the time to assess your business practices. Here are some thoughts.

Here are 10 relevant financial reports each physician at your practice should see … whether they read them or not.

Here are nine tips to bring electronic payment into your practice while not interfering with the best care for patients.

In her book, Halee Fischer-Wright says there has been misguided efforts to define value in healthcare and it needs to be re-examined.

Coding expert Bill Dacey answers your latest coding questions, including an inquiry on how to bill for TCM services.

For this month's coding column, we get a few ICD-10 specific questions on BMI and well child visits.

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.

Physicians applying for a business loan for their practice should know what they are getting themselves into before starting the process.

Look for areas to improve patient satisfaction, such as removing or reducing the time patients spend in the waiting room.

In our recurring blog "Inbox," we also get reader feedback on payers not requesting overpayments and the biggest HIPAA incidents of 2016.

What are the top healthcare issues that practices will have to pay attention to in the coming year?

Sometimes CMS can unjustly revoke a provider's billing privileges. Here are a few examples.

There are many reasons for small practices to use complex finance reporting technologies to analyze data. Here are a few.