In-house Claim Management Is Difficult Health insurance claims management is a pivotal aspect of running a successful medical practice, directly influencing the patient-provider relationship. The healthcare industry has undergone a tremendous transformation over the...
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Proper Appointment Scheduling Can Help Lower Patient Wait Time
According to healthcare experts, making relevant changes in scheduling and managing patient workflow can minimize the average patient wait time for a new appointment from eleven weeks to two weeks....
Healthcare Providers Awaiting Elimination of Medicare SGR
Healthcare providers are now hoping that Sustainable Growth Rate or SGR will be eliminated. Introduced by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), SGR is used to control Medicare spending...
How the 2% Medicare Reimbursement Reduction Will Affect ASCs
The debt-ceiling crisis in United States during 2011 paved way for the imposition of Budget Control Act of 2011. The measures to reduce discretionary spending kicked off in January 2013 with the...
Meeting HEDIS Quality Care Goals
There is an increasing focus on the quality of care, whether its prevention, early diagnosis of illness, or therapeutic services. HEDIS ((Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set), created...
Efficient Coding and Billing Can Keep RAC Audit Fears At Bay
There are a lot of myths and misconceptions among healthcare service providers about the functioning of the RAC (Recovery Audit Contractors). The RAC system was created to help CMS (Centers for...
Crisp and Objective Obama Care Coverage Forms
Affordable Care Act or Obama HealthCare will provide tax credits to the low/middle-income group of Americans, thus helping them purchase insurance through state-run insurance exchanges. The coverage...
Subsidies for Millions with Obamacare
The latest reports from CNN IBN highlight that Affordable Care Act or Obamacare will provide health insurance subsidies to millions of Americans next year. The report is based on the analysis...
Patient Appointment Cancellations – How to Turn Them to Your Advantage
Appointment cancellations and no-shows are distressing for physicians’ practices. Patients who fail to show up for an appointment or cancel it reduce your revenues and cause waste of valuable staff...
Implementing ICD-10-CM and Its Advantages
There are many changes happening in the field of healthcare and one of the most significant is ICD-10-CM implementation. ICD-10-CM, the 10th revision for the International Classification of Diseases...
Medicare’s Apathy on Pricing for Medical Diagnostic Tests to Hit Care
Medicare has stopped reimbursements for medical diagnostic tests, affecting hundreds of healthcare providers across the country. Medicare’s had provided reimbursement benefits to big laboratory...