by Mary Pat Whaley | Aug 24, 2011 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Finance, Innovation
In a traditional healthcare setting, the revenue cycle begins with the insurance companies who pay the majority of the bill. There are multitudes of payers and each payer can have many plans. How can a healthcare organization catalog this information, keep this...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Aug 21, 2011 | A Career in Practice Management, Day-to-Day Operations
All of us have a lot of information to process in our daily lives. Information is readily available – almost too readily available – and healthcare is exploding with information that must be read, processed, prioritized, and sometimes filed for future...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Aug 16, 2011 | A Career in Practice Management, Day-to-Day Operations, Electronic Medical Records, Learn This: Technology Answers
Note: This article was first published as PM, EMR and Portals: A Primer on Healthcare-specific Software for Ambulatory Care on Technorati. Few industries are currently changing as much as the US healthcare system. While many perspectives and ideas are shaping the...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Aug 14, 2011 | Day-to-Day Operations
While there are multiple levels of laboratory complexity, it is possible to have a lab in your practice with very little fuss and administrative burden. The level of complexity of any lab is determined by the testing being performed, and the complexity level of each...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Aug 8, 2011 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Electronic Medical Records
Some of worst horror stories in healthcare operations right now have to do with the failure of Electronic Health Record, (or EHR) installations. The high rate of EHR failures is being compounded by the pressure to attest in 2011 and start recouping some money...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 31, 2011 | A Career in Practice Management, Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Finance
What are the hallmarks of a well-managed practice? There are many, but here are 10 basics. The practice has foundation documents appropriate to the corporate structure and written agreements describing how income and expenses are shared by physicians and/or other...
