California Medicare Supplemental insurance policies are numerous and very complex. Supplemental Medicare policies pay medical costs regular Medicare does not cover. These plans are also known as Medigap and are available from private insurance companies. These plans are all required to have the same basic coverage. However, some plans have options above the basic plan. [...]
Making sense of confusing anatomy terms in the op notes when you’re billing in orthopedics is not fun. But your grasp on orthopedic anatomy is key to billing and coding properly. Learn how to streamline your claims to make your billing in orthopedics simpler and more accurate.
Take the Confusion Out of Hand Surgery Billing
When you’re [...]
Electronic medical claim billing is offered by outsource strategies international that are leading business outsourcing of Process Company with headquarters in Oklahoma. It is specialized in providing electronic medical claim billing for outsourcing. This medical claim billing aids in providing quicker payments from various insurers by pruning time taken for preparation of conventional claims with [...]
The effectiveness of any chiropractic billing software you implement for your practice is highly dependent on the quality of the training your staff receives. Even though you may have selected the optimum medical billing software for your practice, if your staff does not buy in to fully adopting the software and if they do not [...]
With all the talk about swine flu, epidemics and pandemics, it is no wonder the general public gets a bit edgy about the possibility of becoming ill. But there is another type of epidemic associated with healthcare, only this epidemic will not make you physically ill. But it may leave your physician financially debilitated.
The issue [...]
In today’s economic environment, many practices are strapped for cash and are looking for ways to speed up collection of their accounts receivable. An expensive form of financing that some folks are considering is call factoring.
Factoring is basically when a practice borrows against it’s current accounts receivable, typically insurance A/R, to obtain quick cash.
For example, [...]
One important benefit of implementing a comprehensive medical billing system instead of handling everything manually is improved patient scheduling. Since scheduling is so important and can have a substantial financial impact on your practice, before selecting a medical billing system you should carefully review what scheduling features are included with the system. You should also [...]
The three year Medicare RAC demonstration that was conducted in California, Florida and New York demonstrated that one of the biggest areas where improper payments were identified was due to improper documentation by the physician.
As a practice administrator you may wondering how to ensure physician documentation leads to proper coding in the billing cycle. You [...]
Most of us often dream of having the comfort of working at home, with a secure atmosphere. But actually such expectations rarely turn to reality.
One of the most curious – and most highly sought out work-at-home career options are found in the Medical field. Medical billing and coding has been considered as a very important [...]
A specialty dealing with disorders of the heart and blood vessels, cardiology includes diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure, and the like. Medical coding jobs need much more accuracy than other medical coding jobs; so if you are a cardiology coder, you need to keep yourself updated with the [...]
