by Abraham Whaley | Nov 2, 2011 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Finance, General
After Mary Pat’s “Coding for the Rest of Us” post this July, she sat down with Lyndsey Coates from Nuesoft as part of their monthly Healthcare IT Podcast to discuss more about how even a basic understanding of coding among patient contacting and...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Oct 11, 2011 | Day-to-Day Operations, Finance, Leadership
Peter Polack, MD of Medical Practice Trends interviewed me recently for a series of podcasts for his site. Here we talk about “How To Tell If Your Practice Is Well-Managed.” Click here to listen. Warning signs that your practice has management issues Why...
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 Mary Pat Whaley | Sep 5, 2011 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Finance
How does a medical practice meet the patients’ healthcare needs while operating a highly-regulated business on less income? Start by examining one of the most expensive processes in the practice – billing. Billing requires skilled employees, sophisticated...
