Physicians and healthcare provides across the country are slowly but surely adopting EHRs or Electronic Health Records as a part of the recent health reforms in the United States. Moreover, it has been reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that there has been a substantial increase in the adoption rates across […]
Medical Billers and Coders in USA
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Increasing Impetus on Physician Reimbursements Becoming Value-Based
Both federal and private payers are shifting compensation from volume to value of services. According to American Medical News one of such payers is UnitedHealth Group who is to start offering approximately 50- 70% of its physician’s bonuses for reaching cost and quality targets and/or participating in new care models. Increased numbers of physician practices […]
Increase revenue by improving billing functions
The excessive administrative work healthcare organizations are having to deal with due to reforms in the US healthcare has begun to take its toll on the revenue of healthcare organizations across all the states of the US due to several reason, like claim denials by insurers and hospitals involved in increased non-clinical activities like claim […]
Improving Patient Collections via Medical Billing
If the insurance-driven nature of US healthcare is leaving care providers to sort out administrative issues to ensure successful claim submission and reimbursement is one side of the problems US healthcare providers face, the other side is patients unwilling or unable to pay the share of the medical bill that’s not covered by their insurance, […]
Revenue Management & Being Vigilant amidst the impending Medicare backlash
“Although, physicians can expect their Medicare reimbursements to be unhindered at least for another year or so, they need to equally vigilant with their medical billing, coding, submission, realization, and the Revenue Cycle Management so as to be sure of not letting their Account Receivables (A/Rs) beyond the expiry of the current window for Sustainable […]
Medical Reimbursement Issues Push Physicians to Flee Hospitals Triggering a Teverse Trend
For over a decade, US healthcare has seen hospitals integrating with primary healthcare physicians across all the states of the US, challenging the traditional notion of primary care as a separate set of services from hospital healthcare, to provide all types of healthcare services under one roof and ensure mutual benefits that help all the […]
Making ICD-10 transition easier, efficient and meaningful
By now medical practices must have realized that the transition to ICD-10 means more than just learning a new code set and upgrading the existing software. As medical practices embark on the transition to a more radical system of clinical and operational regimen, the deadline for which is set at October 1, 2013, they are […]
Addressing Challenges in Medical Billing for Chronic Patients
“As physicians deliberate on the efficacy of outsourcing medical billing companies services for chronic disease management services, they also need to be mindful of the credibility of their prospective service providers. In a medical billing environment, characterized by heterogeneous players, choice of a service provider can get as significant as the decision to go for […]
The nexus between workload induced stress and diminishing revenue in hospitals
‘As if the accountability is not enough, they will also content with diminishing patient inflow and revenue generation. The sum of total of these two reactions would eventually tell on hospitals ability to sustain and grow amidst a highly competitive healthcare industry. And as health insurance becomes pervasive in healthcare industry, physicians will have to […]
Private practices withstanding healthcare reforms: Revenue Management
Private practices are facing many challenges and gone are the days when physicians could easily start their own practice in a small office. The complexities in the form of changing policies, added administrative work and changes in Healthcare IT has made it very difficult for physicians to start or maintain a small or solo practice. […]