by Mary Pat Whaley | Jan 5, 2012 | 12 Ways to Supercharge Your Practice, Collections, Billing & Coding, Innovation
There are two things I’ve found over the years that medical offices have a hard time giving up. One is the appointment book. The other is patient statements. My first experience with creating patient statements was placing patient ledger cards on the copier. The...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jan 2, 2012 | 12 Ways to Supercharge Your Practice, Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Finance, Leadership
Happy New Year! What will your practice achieve in the coming year? Many people make resolutions to improve themselves when the new year rolls around, but what about your practice? With all the changes in the industry, it can be tempting to just “hang on...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Dec 27, 2011 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Finance, Medicare & Reimbursement
January is a tough time for independent medical practices for several reasons: In private practices, the physicians typically don’t carry over any cash from year to year, so the practice starts in January from a cash position of zero. Most deductibles begin in...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Nov 25, 2011 | Collections, Billing & Coding
Mary Pat: If you remember, my friend Bob decided he wanted to become a medical coder and asked for help. He chose Allied Schools because he felt he made a connection with the people at Allied and they also offered an attractive payment plan. Bob has started the...
by Abraham Whaley | Nov 20, 2011 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Compliance, Day-to-Day Operations, General
In health care, we are “blessed” with an abundance of rules, policies, standards and laws. In Health Care Regulation in America: Complexity, Confrontation, and Compromise, Robert I. Field, professor of health management and policy at Drexel University...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Nov 17, 2011 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement
CMS Announces 90-Day Period of Enforcement Discretion for Compliance with New HIPAA Transaction Standards Today the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Office of E-Health Standards and Services (OESS) announced that it would not initiate enforcement action...