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 | Jan 3, 2010 | Day-to-Day Operations, Medicare & Reimbursement
I sat at the checkout desk in my practice last week for the first time and as always, it was a revelation. If you haven’t worked your check-in and check-out desks recently, I highly recommend it. An insured patient that I checked out was shocked when I said the...
