Tips For Hiring A Medical Coding Company
In order to keep your practice afloat, it is imperative that your services receive full and timely reimbursements. Getting your cash flow moving smoothly depends on accurate...
3 Things You Need To Know About Medicare Audits
Healthcare facilities across the nation have or will have to face Medicare audits at some point. Even those healthcare facilities that have done everything correctly an...
Common Evaluation And Management (E/M) Services Coding Errors
One of the recurring problems facing healthcare facilities is incorrect coding of Evaluation and Management (E/M) Services. The recent CERT (Comprehensive Error Testing) cla...
8 Tips On Medical Billing And Patient Collections
One of the biggest challenges faced by healthcare practices and crucial to their very survival is medical billing and collections. A healthy revenue cycle is important to su...
HHS ‘A Bill You Can Understand’ Challenge
Most patients and their families find it very difficult to understand their medical billing documents. Currently, there are no established standards for consumer medica...
8 Must-Knows for Balance Billing
Billing patients for outstanding balances after receiving the portion covered by the insurance company is known as balance billing. This can happen if the insurance company ...
Best Practices – Clinical Documentation Improvement
All healthcare facilities – irrespective of whether they are a business enterprise or a charitable institution – have to be financially viable in order to continue to provide...
3 Steps To Creating Your Clinical Documentation Improvement Program
Improving clinical documentation leads to revenue gains and most healthcare facilities are now exploring this program. The main reason for getting into this program is to im...
ICD-10-CM Code (M62.84) for Sarcopenia Announced
Effective October 01, 2016, the code M62.84 will be used by the healthcare community for sarcopenia, thus recognizing it as a distinctly reportable condition. The AIM (Aging...
Increase Your Medical Practice Revenue With These 15 Tips
Times are tough – reimbursements are declining and expenses increasing. Keeping your practice viable in this environment requires being able to identify areas in your medica...
