by Mary Pat Whaley | Feb 5, 2018 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Compliance, Day-to-Day Operations
What follows is an article adapted from one published in the Infintech News January 30, 2018. Infintech is my Credit Card on File gateway and credit card processor for my consulting business. It is also a company I recommend to clients. I’ve been working with my...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jan 24, 2018 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Compliance, Practice Marketing, Social Media
Credentialing new physicians is the definition of Catch-22. You can’t start the process too early as payers won’t accept the application (especially if the physician doesn’t have their malpractice in place), and by the time payers will accept the...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jan 9, 2018 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Compliance, Medicare & Reimbursement
One of the most popular topics I’ve written about over the past 10 years, and the one I get the most email on, is the ins and outs of using the Medicare Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage – the ABN – also known as form CMS-R-131. Why is...
by Abraham Whaley | Mar 9, 2016 | Amazing Customer Service, Collections, Billing & Coding, Compliance, Day-to-Day Operations, Finance, Medicare & Reimbursement
The advance beneficiary notice (ABN) is a powerful tool for practices to educate patients about their benefits and responsibilities for Medicare non-covered services. Many of our readers still write us to ask questions about the form and the correct way to use it in...
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 | May 31, 2015 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Compliance, Day-to-Day Operations, Finance, Headlines
At Manage My Practice, we are big proponents of using a Credit Card on File (CCOF) system in medical practices to reduce expenses and improve cash flow. Knowing how your processing vendor’s pricing plan and security features work are critical to implementing...
