Power Your Practice

When you’re consistently collecting on your submitted claims, it can be easy to trust that your routine is working perfectly. What you might not realize, though, is that certain procedures you have in place could be causing you to lose time and incur hidden costs. To get your practice paid in the most efficient manner [...]

If your practice is not ready to make the switch to the ICD-10 coding system on October 1, 2013, payments will stop for services provided after that date. Healthcare providers who are unprepared for the ICD-10 deadline will face cash-flow disruptions, billing backlogs, increased claim rejections and denials, as well as an expensive path to [...]

As physicians switch to electronic health records (EHRs), unforeseen expenses can add up quickly to send implementation costs and annual budgets into the red. While the EHR incentive payments will help compensate physicians for the cost of switching to EHR systems, many experts believe the money covers just a fraction of the true cost.

Medical practices scrambling to prepare for the HIPAA 5010 compliance deadline on January 1, 2012 can breathe a sigh of relief – they will get more time. With the year coming to a close and the deadline for 5010 fast approaching, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced it will not enforce [...]