by Mary Pat Whaley | Nov 29, 2016 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Finance, Medicare & Reimbursement, Medicare This Week
2017 Medicare Parts A & B Premiums and Deductibles Announced The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the 2017 premiums for the Medicare inpatient hospital (Part A) and physician and outpatient hospital services (Part B) programs. Medicare...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Nov 20, 2016 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Finance, Innovation
High Deductible Plans and CCOF Are Becoming Mainstream When we first starting teaching practices how to implement credit card on file (CCOF) in their practices in 2010, only a few practices had ever heard of it. Today, we get calls weekly from practices who need help...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Aug 9, 2016 | Day-to-Day Operations, Finance, Starting a New Practice
We’ve heard from many small independent practices of their desire to evaluate/change their practice model due to: Ongoing Medicare quality program and commercial insurance fee reductions. Increasing administrative expense related to pre-authorizations, denials,...
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 | 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 | 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...
