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Paying An Annual Fee to Keep Your Doctor

I recently was informed by one of my clients that he is being “courted” by a company that helps doctors trim their practices to 400-600 patients. These patients will be invited to stay with the practice by paying an annual fee to have better and more access to their doctor by having less wait time [...]

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Patients Without Healthcare Insurance

As I complete my fifteenth year as a solo medical billing service,I find this year the most difficult one for patients suddenly without insurance.

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Cleaning Up Your Billing Claims For Better Results

I continuously stress to my clients and their staffs that they are the first ones touching the superbill, charge slip, routing slip, encounter form. The cleaner it is, the more advanced it is in using modifiers and trying some add-on codes that are clearly described in a CPT book/computer program the better the chance to see an improved cash flow.

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Why Medicare Is Not The Enemy

As a billing service, I come in contact with many insurance plans on a daily basis. Every year, I have my favorites and the ones that I dread. In all the years I have been in this business, the latter change from year to year (I always have at least one on my hot list [...]

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Improving The Management of Your Accounts

Although knowing what your gross accounts receivable balance is important to you because you would like to try to figure on what money might be expected, this is not a report to use to bring more money into the practice. Instead, every good billing software program should be able to produce what i term your “outstanding claims” and your “guarantor balances”.

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