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The Craziest Medical Bills

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Patients around the country are getting stuck with enormous medical bills as hospitals continue to mark up the cost of their services, including those for routine medical procedures and advanced surgeries. He ended up staying in the hospital for four days and came out with a bill for over $100,000. Total healthcare spending in the U.S.

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3 essential tasks for wrapping up your medical billing for the New Year   

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Wrapping up your practice for the New Year includes: Reconciling all accounts accurately Sorting out outstanding claims Updating patient information These measures will prevent discrepancies that lead to financial loss, reduce mistakes, and speed up the claim approval process, allowing your practice to continue running without glitches.

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Is the GP pay proposal out of step with reality?

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The BMA has called for an increase of 20% plus inflation for salaried GPs, alongside a commitment to annual uplifts in the following years to reverse the effects of over a decade of underfunding. Im not getting my hopes up! Another Practice Manager we spoke to summed up the mood: The ongoing pay dispute is not just about numbers.

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3 Ways to Get Credentialed with Insurance Companies

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Insurance credentialing is an important, intricate process that results in you becoming a “paneled,” in-network provider for a health insurance plan. In this article, we will explain how to get credentialed with insurance companies using the three most common methods. Blog What Is an Insurance Panel? Medicare ).

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Primary care news round-up (27th February to 5th March 2025)

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Lords bid to exempt practices from NI increases Practices could still be exempted from the increase in employers National Insurance rates following a vote in the House of Lords. The Lords voted to amend the National Insurance Act to protect health and care providers. It states that the dispute with Government may be over.

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5 reports that you can run to monitor your medical practice

Health Prime

In one of our past blogs, we delved into the end-of-year reports you should run in your practice. It categorizes unpaid patient invoices and insurance claims by age, typically in 30-day increments. Read more about this in our blog How to reduce your Days in AR. Subscribe to the Health Prime blog.

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Maine Hospital Using AI to Record Patient Conversations

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MaineHealth recently announced it is using AI to automatically record conversations between doctors and their patients during a check-up or follow-up visit. We end up doing what we went into medicine for,” she said. Nobody went into medicine to write notes or fill out insurance authorization forms,” said J.

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