Health Prime

DECEMBER 18, 2024

It categorizes unpaid patient invoices and insurance claims by age, typically in 30-day increments. To take action, follow up promptly on overdue accounts, review and optimize your billing processes to reduce delays, and consider implementing automated reminders for patients and insurance companies.

Medication

Medical Economics

JUNE 30, 2025

Three months later, when longtime patients start calling about their insurance no longer covering visits, the physician finds out they have been dropped from multiple networks, not for quality issues but for missing a paperwork deadline. Insurance companies simply drop noncompliant providers and notify them after the fact. In practice?

Insurance

Phlebotomy Careers

JUNE 22, 2025

Medical assistants are multi-taskers, handling a variety‍ of ​duties that range from ‍taking patient histories to ​managing ‌appointments and billing. She also handles administrative tasks like ‌billing and managing patient records.

Medical Assistant

The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 28, 2025

Concord Orthopaedics, New Hampshire Concord Orthopaedics in New Hampshire has started notifying certain patients about a security incident at a third-party vendor used to check in patients for appointments. Drivers license numbers or state identification numbers were involved for a portion of the affected individuals.

Appointments

Health Prime

DECEMBER 18, 2024

It categorizes unpaid patient invoices and insurance claims by age, typically in 30-day increments. To take action, follow up promptly on overdue accounts, review and optimize your billing processes to reduce delays, and consider implementing automated reminders for patients and insurance companies.

Medication

Arkenea

JUNE 20, 2025

EHR revenue cycle management represents far more than simply connecting clinical and billing systems. Essentially, EHR RCM signifies the integration of billing processes with clinical operations, leading to the improvement of financial performance while ensuring the delivery of optimal patient care.

Documentation

The Healthcare Blog

JULY 21, 2025

Beyond the usual self-triage, the numbers tell us that up to 40% of ChatGPT users have consulted AI after a doctor’s appointment. Sadly, they don’t fully trust their doctor, are embarrassed to speak up, or don’t have enough time to talk through their questions and concerns during appointments.

Appointments

Health Prime

JANUARY 1, 2025

Delegating specific medical billing processes in your practice to an expert partner offers a strategic and forward-thinking approach to enhancing efficiency, reducing administrative burdens, and ensuring financial stability. Read more about this in our blog 5 reasons to outsource your medical billing.

Billing

Northwest Career College

JULY 15, 2025

You’ll use these words daily, from scheduling patients to handling phone calls and working with insurance. Patient and Appointment Terms You’ll often hear terms like “ new patient ” or “ established patient.” When someone walks in without an appointment, they’re known as a “ walk-in.”

Medical Administrative Assistant

CollaborateMD

JUNE 25, 2025

Once your practice reaches a certain size, juggling daily tasks like scheduling appointments, verifying insurance, managing patient communication, and ensuring accurate billing can become frustratingly complex and slow down operations. That’s essential for practices with a high billing volume. The result?

Patient Care

Valant

MAY 13, 2025

Do you know how to manage insurance claims to minimize denials and maintain your cash flow? Practice management skills like scheduling, billing, documentation, and compliance can protect you from professional burnout and set you on a path to success. Systems with automated appointment reminders save you money by reducing no-shows.

Billing

Valant

JULY 9, 2025

Types of tasks AI can perform as a clinical tool include: Generate detailed clinical documentation from session recordings Format notes in compliance with insurance requirements Screen for mistakes in billing documents Send auto-reminders about appointments Types of tasks AI cannot perform at your practice include: Build therapeutic relationships Apply (..)

Clinical Assistant

The HIPAA Journal

JULY 21, 2025

The compromised information included names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, health insurance information, and medical appointment information. The investigation confirmed that patient data had been exposed and may have been exfiltrated from the network.

Medication

ACI Medical & Dental School

AUGUST 4, 2025

Extended/Alternative Schedules Some dental offices offer early morning, evening, or even Saturday appointments, so Dental Assistants might work: Early shifts (e.g., During Patient Appointments Escort patients to exam rooms and make them comfortable. Stay on schedule while prepping for the next appointment. Take X-rays if needed.

Scheduling

Health Prime

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In this stage of the medical billing process, your front-end staff ensures proper collection and recording of valuable data essential to provide proper services to the patient and ensure their coverage. However, errors in this data are common and have consequences for your practice.

Medication

Northwest Suburban College

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

On the administrative side, you will be trained in tasks like scheduling appointments, managing medical records, and handling billing and insurance forms. These skills are essential for patient care and provide a solid foundation of medical knowledge.

Medical Assistant

CollaborateMD

JUNE 20, 2025

With a platform that collects and connects data across billing, scheduling, clinical care, and patient communication, CollaborateMD allows your staff to focus on delivering better outcomes while we handle the behind-the-scenes complexities. Speed and Accuracy in Billing and Payment: Reduce claim errors to accelerate reimbursement.

Appointments

Prism Career Institute

MAY 6, 2025

It’s also crucial to maintain patient confidentiality and follow Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations. They also may work with a patient to schedule any follow-up appointments. Administrative Medical Assistant Duties Even when they aren’t helping patients, medical assistants stay busy.

Medical Assistant

Northwest Suburban College

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Dental assistants coordinate appointments to prevent conflicts and minimize wait times, enhancing patient satisfaction. Handling billing and insurance claims is indispensable. Dental assistants process payments, submit claims, and navigate insurance intricacies.

Patient Records

Medical Economics

JULY 1, 2025

Patients are comfortable with AI in operational tasks like prescription refills and appointment scheduling but wary of its role in diagnosis and treatment. Less clicking, more connecting Three out of four respondents (77%) said their appointments lasted less than 15 minutes on average.

Appointments

Physicians Practice

JULY 16, 2025

Most denials trace back to the same handful of problems—wrong demographics, lapsed insurance, missing prior auth, lack of medical necessity or late filing. No theory, no fluff; just concise, actionable guidance that respects tight schedules and delivers measurable results between appointments. Tip 2: Spot the repeat offenders.

Billing

Prism Career Institute

JULY 7, 2025

They’ll also want a candidate to elaborate on any experience filling out forms, reviewing medical records, or performing billing and bookkeeping services. An interviewer will want to evaluate a candidate’s knowledge of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Medical Assistant

Medical Economics

JULY 8, 2025

Industry data showed that insurers on HealthCare.gov denied about 19% of in-network claims in 2023 ; that’s $73 million out of $319 million in claims filed. For example, if you see a spike in denials from a particular insurer due to eligibility, you know exactly where to focus your front-end efforts.

Huddles/Rounds

Northwest Career College

MAY 25, 2025

This entails managing appointments, handling patient records, and ensuring everything runs on time. Knowledge in Dental Software In a dental office, special software keeps track of treatment, appointments, billing, and insurance claims for each patient.

Customer Service

Northwest Career College

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Some of the work activities include: Appointment Setting Managed patient records and ensured they were up-to-date. Handled all insurance forms and also billing-related processes. Scheduler: This is organizing appointments and seeing an office running on schedule.

Medical Administrative Assistant

Medical Economics

JUNE 27, 2025

Establishing medical necessity: The downstream importance of diagnosis codes Establishing a patient’s medical necessity is critical because it ensures that diagnostic tests, treatments and referrals are both clinically justified and reimbursable by insurance. were hospitalized.

Tests

Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Circumventing long waits for appointments and the bureaucracy of traditional medical practices, concierge patients pay out of pocket for the convenience of easy access to care. For an NP who would rather not deal with the nightmare of insurance and instead offer highly personalized services, concierge medicine is a viable business option.

Bookkeeping

Northwest Career College

JULY 17, 2025

Typical responsibilities include: Greet patients and schedule appointments. Handling billing, coding, and insurance claims. They work primarily in physicians’ offices, clinics, and outpatient facilities. Recording of vital signs and medical history.

Medical Assistant

CollaborateMD

MARCH 20, 2025

It can bring a refreshing shift from scattered patient files and billing information to seamless, stress-free workflows and revenue management. Here’s a breakdown of essential features of practice management systems : Patient Scheduling : Streamline efficient appointment booking while minimizing no-shows through automated reminders.

Appointments

Northwest Career College

JUNE 17, 2025

People in these positions are concerned with scheduling, billing, and record management. Whether you are calling to check into an appointment or to ask a question about your insurance, you have spoken with someone in healthcare administration. They file and process insurance claims to ensure that providers receive payment.

Medical Administrative Assistant

The Healthcare Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

Other stuff Supply Shop — services offerings Revcyclers — “Third parties working with Epic and provide billing services to help improve revenue cycle outcomes” Cornerstone Partners — deep relationships with Microsoft and InterSystems But wait…there’s more. These capabilities don’t exist in today’s EHRs.

Billing

Physicians Practice

JUNE 27, 2025

If the patients have not arrived in the office, contact them to inform them of the delay and offer them the option to reschedule their appointment. 60: Strategic planning with Stephen A. Dickens of SVMIC Austin Littrell April 14th 2025 Podcast Stephen A. 60: Strategic planning with Stephen A.

Communication

Physicians Practice

JUNE 20, 2025

Many doctors and practices have tried to outsource their billing, only to find disastrous results. In these unfortunate cases, their next plan is to bring billing back in-house and cancel the billing service. Either way, successful practices wisely try new ventures while monitoring results and responses.

Billing

CollaborateMD

MARCH 7, 2025

Applications of automation span everything from medical billing and administrative processes to enhancing patient care through clinical decision support and real-time analytics. Automation minimizes human error in critical areas such as diagnosis coding, medical billing, and revenue cycle management (RCM).

Billing

ACI Medical & Dental School

JANUARY 9, 2025

Appointment Management: Scheduling appointments, managing follow-up visits, and sometimes handling billing and insurance paperwork. Organizational Skills: Efficient in managing multiple tasks, such as scheduling appointments and maintaining records.

Medical Assistant

Arkenea

AUGUST 2, 2025

Basic systems at the lower end provide essential documentation and billing functions, while premium solutions include advanced analytics, population health management, and specialty-specific workflows. System integration connects your EHR with laboratory systems, imaging platforms, billing software, and other healthcare applications.

Documentation

A Young Doctor's Journey

MARCH 10, 2025

Does insurance cover it? Of note, my insurance company initially declined the claim and my fertility team had to appeal, so this was the longest part of the process (about four weeks). We set an approximate date for the start time, and my fertility team started the prior authorization for the insurance company. Mon (day 1!):

Medication