by Mary Pat Whaley | Jan 5, 2016 | Starting a New Practice
In 2012, we wrote “Yes, You Can and Should Start a New Practice in 2013” and more than 13,000 people have viewed it since then. Despite what you may read on the internet, private medical practice is not dead, and physicians are starting new medical...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Dec 10, 2015 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Compliance
The 300 new, deleted, revised, and converted CPT codes for 2016 are here and you will need to make sure they are loaded in your billing and EMR system(s) on or before January 1, 2016. This is also a great time to upload the 2016 Medicare allowables for your locality...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Nov 11, 2015 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Finance, Medicare & Reimbursement, Medicare This Week
Yesterday the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the 2016 premiums and deductibles for the Medicare inpatient hospital (Part A) and physician and outpatient hospital services (Part B) programs. Part B Premiums/Deductibles As the Social...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Nov 2, 2015 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Starting a New Practice
I recently helped a physician start a new practice and we began applying for enrollment with the Big Five insurance companies. The physician was stunned to find: Insurance companies regularly “lost” her applications and we had to submit the same...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Oct 15, 2015 | Amazing Customer Service, Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Finance, Human Resources
Do not incentivize and reward your billing staff for reduced days in accounts receivable, increased collections or decreased non-contractual (bad debt) write-offs! I bet you thought I was going to say that billers are paid to do a job and they should not be...
