Medicare is taking steps to remove Social Security numbers from Medicare cards. Through this initiative the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will prevent…
COMPLIANCE
5 tested ways to make your billing and coding more profitable
June 16, 2017 by
The health of your medical practice depends on good quality coding and billing work. One of the most important roles in the medical office that…
PHYSICIANS IN THE NEWS
Pain clinic agrees to pay $1.78 million to settle whistleblower lawsuit
June 16, 2017 by
Ross Feller Casey, LLP, recently announced that the Atlantic Spine & Joint Institute and its owners, Robert C. McGrath, Sr., D.O., and Robert C. McGrath, Jr., have agreed to pay…
HEALTH CARE REFORM
How to determine your MIPS participation status
May 12, 2017 by
Are you unsure of your participation status in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)…
READER TIPS
Use weekly meetings with doctors to keep office running smoothly
May 5, 2017 by
Meeting every week with the doctors makes a tremendous difference in how smoothly – and also how successfully – an office operates, says…
BILLING & COLLECTIONS
12 tips for boosting patient payment
May 5, 2017 by
The way the bill looks, and reads, plays a major role in when – and whether – the office gets paid. Here are 12 ways to boost patient payment…
BILLING & COLLECTIONS
3 legal protections to include in your patient debt collection agency services contract
March 31, 2017 by
Outsourcing can be an effective way to overcome patient collection challenges. But it can also backfire if the collection agency you contract with uses illegal, unethical or insensitive collection tactics. One of the keys to…
READER TIPS
Missouri staff train each other on solving the day-to-day issues
March 3, 2017 by
The best staff training, says a Missouri manager, is the training staff give one another. At the OB/GYN office…
HEALTH CARE REFORM
CMS extends 2016 PQRS EHR submission deadline
February 10, 2017 by
CMS is extending the submission deadline for 2016 Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) data submission for the…
MACRA
Don’t know what MACRA will require of your practice? You’re not alone
January 20, 2017 by
According to a recent survey conducted by Kareo, a provider of clinical and business management software for independent medical practices, 84% of independent physicians and staff aren’t…
