financial management

The Importance of Patient Financial Policies Consulting

Insurance doesn’t always pay 100 percent of medical costs, which is why it puts patients in a position where they…

Training and Educating Front Office Staff: Handling Difficult Behaviors

A patient shows up at the front desk and they are yelling, crying, frustrated, upset, overwhelmed, angry, aggravated, pushy, demanding,…

health care audit

Using Health Care Audits to Detect Health Care Fraud

Preventing healthcare fraud is a very important feature of healthcare audits. Many practices, with a healthy internal audit plan, can…

Affordable Care Act Plan Levels

What Physicians Should Expect From Patients with ACA Insurance

Healthcare consulting encompasses a wide range of areas, as consultants are able to advise physicians when it comes to billing,…

Achieving the Ideal Medical Practice Model

The ideal medical practice model is one that improves efficiency, quality, and the doctor-patient relationship. It is one that consists…

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Understanding the Broad World of Credentialing

There are different types of credentialing in the medical world, making the word “credentials” a very broad term. For instance,…

medical professional holding patient chart

Chart Auditing: Are You Billing What You Should?

A simple medical chart audit can save your practice a lot of money. There are a number of mistakes that…

Outsourced vs. In-House Medical Billing

Many medical practices are faced with an important question and that is whether to opt for outsourced medical billing or…

The New Rules of Patient Satisfaction

Patient satisfaction has become an indicator of how well a provider performs and it has become a dimension of value-based…

The Impact of Credentialing on Cash Flow

Let’s rewind about four years to 2010 where physicians thought they had until January 2011 to comply with Medicare PECOS…

Top Reasons for Medicare Denials and Rejections

Did you know that Medicare has over 200 reason and remark codes that they use every single day when they…

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Medical Billing Benchmarks: Theoretical Yield

Physicians and practices are in a constant struggle to understand whether or not their medical billing is truly working. Making…