Healthcare providers are increasingly harnessing the power of technology to automate their billing processes, reduce billing errors, and improve the overall productivity and profitability of the practice. There are three common needs that healthcare practitioners identify when seeking medical billing software. That includes ease of use, ease of integration, and ease of scaling. Regardless of Read more…
Medical Billing
The ABCs of Merit-Based Incentive Payment System
On April 15 of 2015, President Obama and the members of Congress passed the Medicare Access and Chip Authorization Act (MACRA), which included a permanent solution, instead of the repeated temporary fixes, for the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate methodology used to pay doctors. Under the new law, from 2015 till the end of 2018, physicians will Read more…
Is Your Practice Prepared for the End of the Year?
🔊 LISTEN TO THIS It’s time again for red-tag sales, too much food and family, obnoxious office holiday parties, and getting your practice ready for the year ahead. But in order to prepare for a more productive year ahead, you’ve got to first do a year-end review. Here are some ways to make sure you’re Read more…
Six Tips to Prepare for Meaningful Use Attestation
The Final Rule for Modified Meaningful Use was announced by CMS on October 6, 2015. To help practices get a better understanding of the new requirements, necessary to qualify for the upcoming Meaningful Use attestation period, CureMD recently conducted the following webinar: “Meaningful Use in 2015: 6 things to do before the year’s end.” In Read more…
Overcome Your EHR Post Go-Live Challenges
The process of installing and implementing EHR can be so engrossing that it can be difficult to think of what comes next. All hands are on deck for the go-live phase, anticipating its arrival much like a bunch of festooned party-goers in Times Square awaiting the New Year. Yet, when the ball finally drops, the aftermath is Read more…
Physician Credentialing Podcast by Orin Price
Physician credentialing is a necessary evil. Doing it haphazardly or postponing it, until a month before a new physician starts, can wreak havoc for your practice. Did you know that a typical physician spends more than 3 hours in submitting nearly 18 credentialing forms on an annual basis? If you’ve struggled with this process, rest assured! You’ve come to Read more…
Top reasons to Outsource Medical Billing
A hot topic for debate in the healthcare industry these days is whether a practice should outsource their medical billing or keep it in house. Let’s see why outsourcing gets our vote:
5 Must Follow Steps for Accelerating Revenue Cycles
Improve the Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) of your practice by following these tried and tested methods.
So You Failed Your Meaningful Use Incentive Audit? Podcast by Jim Tate
This podcast focuses on the Meaningful Use Audits, and the compliance procedures which continue to be the cause headaches for practices. The harsh reality of these audits is that long after the costs of the EHR technology have been paid using those incentive funds, a failure to meet even a single MU requirement will result Read more…
Measuring ICD-10 Performance: Top Metrics to Monitor
We survived ICD-10. Contrary to popular beliefs, the storm didn’t hit us as hard as we thought and many practices have settled into their new routine pretty quickly. Some though, just don’t know. They are doing everything they were taught to do, and things seem to be moving in the right direction. Will they get Read more…