by Mary Pat Whaley | Oct 9, 2011 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Compliance, Finance
If you’ve read parts 1 (Know Your Payers) and 2 (Implementing Your Financial Policy) of this series, you are ready to consider a financial assistance policy for those patients without insurance. Patients without insurance fall into one of three...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Oct 6, 2011 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Compliance, Finance, Learn This: Technology Answers, Medicare & Reimbursement
Just in case you haven’t had a chance (what have you been doing?) to focus on the January 1, 2012 deadline for the transition to 5010, take 5 minutes to read this post and make sure your healthcare group is on track. It is critical to have NO interruption in...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Oct 3, 2011 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Finance
I have known of Transworld Systems for almost as long as I’ve been in healthcare – a long time. But it wasn’t until I got to know Karen Cooper from Transworld Systems that it came home to me what a difference a company representative can make in the...
by Abraham Whaley | Oct 3, 2011 | A Career in Practice Management, Amazing Customer Service, Collections, Billing & Coding, Compliance, Medicare & Reimbursement
As we finish off another month here at MMP, we wanted to go back over some of our most popular posts from the month and get us ready for another busy, productive, and meaningful month. Presenting, The Best of Manage My Practice, September 2011! With the weather...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Sep 26, 2011 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Compliance
A write-off is an amount that a practice deducts from a charge and does not expect to collect, thereby “writing it off” the accounts receivable or list of monies owed them by payers or patients. There are lots of reasons why write-offs are taken, and it is...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Sep 21, 2011 | Collections, Billing & Coding
Recently, my friend Bob approached me with an idea. He has decided that he wants to become a medical coder. When he first told me he was interested in exploring coding as a career, I didn’t really think he knew what he was talking about. As Bob itemized the reasons...