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How to Streamline Your Medical Claims Management Process for Better Results 

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Not if you ask billing managers. Healthcare providers and organizations have the power to improve medical billing and collections. By optimizing the medical billing workflow and integrating claims management tools and solutions, you can minimize denials, reduce processing times, and ultimately improve patient satisfaction.

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Proactive denial management: A revenue game changer for small practices

Medical Economics

For a small practice, each denial means delayed payment and a new round of research and correction. Finally, a weekly huddle lead runs a 15-minute Friday check-in to unblock problems and share trends. If coding errors trace back to thin documentation, update clinical templates and review the fix with providers during a quick huddle.

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Simplifying Compliance: How Medical Billing Services Keep You Audit-Ready

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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.

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Primary care news round-up (20th to 26th March 2025)

Practice Index

Some doctors face a cliff edge when any extra earnings trigger a tax bill of 22,500. The post Primary care news round-up (20th to 26th March 2025) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog. The BMAs survey of GPs found that 23% said they reduced their workload this year because of the tapered pension tax rules. sessions a week.

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Preparing for audit inevitability: Is your practice ready?

Medical Economics

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. The problem isn’t necessarily the volume — it’s when the documentation doesn’t support what you’re billing for.

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9 ways to stay sharp when summer fatigue sets in

Physicians Practice

Whether that means shifting office hours earlier to dodge triple-digit afternoons, scheduling a brisk team huddle to surface bottlenecks or prioritizing hydration and recovery time the way you’d prioritize a patient’s vitals, the payoff is the same: steady, sustainable performance.

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What Is the Easiest Healthcare Certification to Get Online?

We Care Online

Why Its Easy: The coursework primarily covers administrative functions, such as scheduling, billing and record management. Why Its Simple: You can earn BLS certification in one day by taking onlinecourses and practice rounds. Its fully online and self-paced, and the bulk of programs can be accomplishedin 26 months.