Physicians Practice

JULY 8, 2025

Vendors routinely slip automatic price escalators into renewals; over-ordering ties up thousands of dollars in inventory that expires on the shelf; and a single unplugged power strip or unfilled appointment slot can erase the margin on an entire patient visit. The seven tactics that follow require no layoffs and little to no capital outlay.

Billing

Arkenea

JULY 23, 2025

trillion in annual transactions, yet billing inefficiencies cost hospitals an estimated $262 billion each year. At the heart of this challenge lies the complex world of billing in hospital management systems, where accuracy, compliance, and efficiency determine the financial viability of healthcare organizations worldwide.

Billing

Health Prime

JANUARY 8, 2025

Medical billing audits are a great tool for achieving compliance and safeguarding revenue. Also, third-party payers conduct billing audits through their employees or their agents. Audits can reveal missed revenue opportunities, coding errors, and underpayments by examining billing processes and claims to maximize potential revenues.

Billing

Health Prime

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Medical billing is a vital yet often overlooked aspect of practice management in the dynamic healthcare landscape, where the primary focus is on providing quality patient care. However, amid the intricacies of coding regulations, payer policies, and administrative tasks, medical practices encounter many challenges in the billing process.

Billing

Health Prime

DECEMBER 18, 2024

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. Compliance and audit reports help you monitor adherence to coding, documentation, and billing standards.

Medication

CollaborateMD

APRIL 3, 2025

Healthcare practices are often plagued with medical billing compliance questions like: “Am I upcoding?” ” With all of these concerns, it’s vital that providers and billing departments understand and follow the key elements of proper medical billing compliance to run a successful practice.

Billing

Relias

JULY 23, 2025

However, repeated offenses can total up to $25,000 annually, and in cases of willful neglect that go uncorrected, penalties can reach as high as $1.5 Some of these challenges are common occurrences that can crop up despite staff’s best efforts. Documentation Documentation integrity involves the accuracy of the complete health record.

Best Practices

Physicians Practice

JULY 23, 2025

Hey there folks, my name is Keith Reynolds, I’m the editor of Physicians Practice and for today’s P2 Management Minute let’s size up staff productivity in just three data-driven steps. Finally, follow the money. Celebrate billers who slash denials and coach anyone whose follow-up drags. Start with what patients feel.

Billing

Health Prime

DECEMBER 18, 2024

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. They help you track the efficiency of your billing processes and identify potential bottlenecks.

Medication

CollaborateMD

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Manual methods are prone to: Human Error : Misfiled billing codes, missing data, and inaccuracies are common with manual input, according to one report. Enhancing Accuracy and Reducing Human Dependence Medical claims include billing and diagnostic codes that must be accurate for claims to be processed efficiently.

Medication

Medical Economics

JULY 25, 2025

After two decades in the medical billing industry, we’ve seen too many trustworthy physicians get blindsided by audit requests, scrambling to gather documentation while trying to understand what went wrong. For example, take an orthopedist who actually sees up to 70 patients a day. But that high volume still triggered an audit.

Documentation

Physicians Practice

JULY 15, 2025

Here’s how this typically works: The health plan sends an explanation of benefits (EOB) document to the member via mail or email. This document informs the member how much they may owe out of pocket based on the contractual adjustment and the amount paid by the health plan.

Billing

Medical Economics

JULY 8, 2025

Practices that take a proactive stance turn claim denials into early warning indicators that speed up payments and streamline everyday operations. Without a designated person or defined process for handling each step of denial follow-up, tasks easily slip through the cracks. You don’t need long training to make this work.

Huddles/Rounds

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

Medical Economics

JULY 1, 2025

Nearly one-third (28%) said physicians spent between 7 and 12 of those minutes focused on documentation. In that context, it’s not hard to understand why AI-powered ambient documentation that transcribes and organizes patient conversations into electronic health records (EHRs), is gaining favor. It also presents a business case.

Appointments

Medical Economics

JULY 15, 2025

Despite this, the mean reduction in cost-sharing following a successful appeal was still lower for Black and Hispanic patients than for White patients. “It inflation ticked up in June as core prices remain sticky July 14th 2025 Ep. inflation ticked up in June as core prices remain sticky July 14th 2025 Ep. Subscribe Now!

Insurance

Health Prime

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Medical billing is a vital yet often overlooked aspect of practice management in the dynamic healthcare landscape, where the primary focus is on providing quality patient care. However, amid the intricacies of coding regulations, payer policies, and administrative tasks, medical practices encounter many challenges in the billing process.

Billing

Valant

JUNE 18, 2025

Through AI Notes’ capabilities to streamline and automate clinical documentation, the feature gives back valuable time to providers so they can focus on what matters most, whether it be patient care, reduced burnout or scalable growth. Which tasks pile up and hang over your head? Billing—claims and payment collection.

Documentation

The HIPAA Journal

MAY 21, 2025

CA Health Plan 12,224 Unauthorized Access/Disclosure Mailing incident involving mailing vendor (Billing Documents Specialists) Shipping labels contained Social Security numbers. Geographical Distribution of Healthcare Data Breaches HIPAA-regulated entities in 29 U.S. states reported large data breaches in April.

Business Associate

Arkenea

JUNE 23, 2025

Unlike conventional AI models that rely solely on their training data, RAG combines the power of large language models with real time information retrieval from your organization’s specific databases and documents.

Documentation

Northwest Career College

JULY 15, 2025

” You’ll also be handling “ follow-up ” visits, repeat visits just to check how someone’s doing. Insurance and Billing You often talk to patients about their insurance when working at the front desk. A “ claim ” is the bill sent to the insurance company after a visit.

Medical Administrative Assistant

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. They also can complete the documentation required to provide patient care or keep facility services operational.

Medical Assistant

Relias

JUNE 3, 2025

Healthcare providers are no strangers to service challenges missed appointments, long wait times, communication breakdowns, or billing confusion are part of the everyday operational landscape. Establish clear workflows that outline who receives alerts, who follows up, and how to document resolution efforts.

Best Practices

CollaborateMD

MARCH 20, 2025

It’s so time-consuming and cumbersome that states like California are considering a bill to simplify the process. The medical insurance credentialing process ensures providers meet specific standards and qualifications set by private insurers, like Medicare or Medicaid, allowing them to bill for services given to patients.

Insurance

Physicians Practice

JUNE 23, 2025

From AI scribes that promise to slash documentation time to “plug-and-play” patient-engagement portals, vendors descend on medical practices with glossy decks and tight trial deadlines. The health technology gold rush is back on, and sales reps know where to find you. Yet a single misstep can wipe out months of margin. Singer, M.D.,

Diagnostics

Relias

MAY 19, 2025

Healthcare providers are no strangers to service challenges missed appointments, long wait times, communication breakdowns, or billing confusion are part of the everyday operational landscape. Establish clear workflows that outline who receives alerts, who follows up, and how to document resolution efforts.

Best Practices

Walker Info - Patient Experience

JANUARY 20, 2025

The following steps outline how healthcare providers can implement the four key PX dimensions. How much faith do you have in our ability to deliver the quality care you need? Putting the Four PX Dimensions to Work Elevating PX takes time and a willingness to see things through the eyes of the patient. No touchpoint is too small for inclusion.

Patient Experience

Mobius MD

JANUARY 1, 2025

Youve found the best EMR for your specialty and streamlined your documentation workflow. Knowing the right medical practice software tools – for scheduling, documentation, clinical decision support, and more – will make your life much easier. Streamline medical practice scheduling with Amion What if you enjoyed scheduling?

Medication

Physicians Practice

JUNE 20, 2025

Neil Baum, MD Successful practices do not follow others; rather, they make their own paths and follow their own pathways and agendas. Neil Baum, MD Successful practices do not follow others; rather, they make their own paths and follow their own pathways and agendas. Edison said, "I have not failed 10,000 times.

Billing

The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 29, 2025

The first study, a JAMA research letter, examined the impact of a new Medicare billing code for abdominal hernia repair that paid surgeons more if the hernia measured at least 3 centimeters in size. When a new billing code pays more to individual surgeons, significant change swiftly follows, even if only in documentation.

Follow-Up

ACI Medical & Dental School

JANUARY 14, 2025

Document medical histories and reason for the visit. Educate patients about managing their health conditions and following physician instructions. Afternoon: Follow-Up: Call patients to remind them of upcoming appointments. Follow up on lab results and inform patients of their results as instructed by the physician.

Medical Assistant

ACI Medical & Dental School

JANUARY 9, 2025

Medical Records Management: Updating and maintaining accurate patient records, including documenting symptoms, medical histories, and treatment procedures. Appointment Management: Scheduling appointments, managing follow-up visits, and sometimes handling billing and insurance paperwork.

Medical Assistant

Physicians Practice

JUNE 30, 2025

AI in Staffing and Documentation (00:11:32) Explores AI’s role in automating scheduling and its success in clinical documentation (ambient scribing). Future Steps in Documentation and Efficiency (00:13:49) Considers whether agent AI can further automate tasks like billing and multi-step processes. Adler, J.D.,

Diagnostics

Arkenea

JUNE 22, 2025

This necessitates the acquisition of a permanent license, which frequently involves paying a hefty up-front cost. Additionally, in addition to the software requirements, hardware acquisition costs also pile up higher in case of on-premise EHRs as compared to cloud hosted EHR.

EHR / EMR

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JUNE 9, 2025

Daily Dive M-F Payer Weekly Every Wednesday IT Weekly Every Thursday By signing up to receive our newsletter, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. These AI Agents will access the full history of each device and identify replacement components from TRIMEDXs supply chain documentation. Follow the changes here.

Follow-Up

The Healthcare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Instead of shopping for care, consumers found themselves saddled with almost $200 billion in medical bills they could not pay, and hospitals and physicians ended up eating most of it. It didnt take more than eighteen months for the historic Optum roll-up of medical claims management software and services to blow up in Uniteds face.

Insurance

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JUNE 9, 2025

Daily Dive M-F Payer Weekly Every Wednesday IT Weekly Every Thursday By signing up to receive our newsletter, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. 4: AI Will Improve Your Patients’ Experience Patients today are tech-savvy and expect their healthcare to be able to keep up with a fast-paced world. Follow the changes here.

Follow-Up