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• Is Your Chiropractic Practice Management System Built Backwards? Part II
  As the economy takes a downturn and insurance companies decrease payments and increase the number of audits, it is important that chiropractors join forces. Using web based technology chiropractors can now use centralized control to manage huge sources of man power and gain economies of scale. This enables them to not only battle back against insurance companies but decrease their practice overhead, increase patient compliance, and, in turn, increase the overall practice profitability.
• Medical Expense Insurance
  If you recall, we explained that there are two broad categories of health insurance policies: disability and medical expense. Thus far we have covered disability. Now we'll take a look at basic medical expense insurance.
• Is Your Chiropractic Practice Management System Built Backwards? PART III - Compliant SOAP Notes
  As the economy takes a downturn and insurance companies decrease payments and increase the number of audits, it is important that chiropractors join forces. Using web based technology chiropractors can now use centralized control to manage huge sources of man power and gain economies of scale. This enables them to not only battle back against insurance companies but decrease their practice overhead, increase patient compliance, and, in turn, increase the overall practice profitability.
• Billing Networks - Commitment & Accountability For Medical Billing, Part I
  Part I - Billing Networks & Commitment Recently I had a conversation with a potential client concerning his trepidations about joining Billing Precision, a Billing Network. He mentioned that he spoke with several clients that were ecstatic about the service, but he wanted to know what the negatives were. In other words, what did clients who did not have a perfect experience with a Billing Network have to say about the service?
• Chiropractic Billing Performance Index Gains Ground - A New Leader Takes Over 1st Place
  In November, the Chiropractic Office Billing Precision Index (BPI) improved 0.2 points above its October mark. Overall, November BPI reached 20.9, under-performing the national average of 17.7 by 3.2, and 5.4 points away from its best record of 15.5 in March of 2008.
• PT and Chiropractic Are Not Covered Concurrently
  Most insurances, including workers comp & no-fault do not allow patients to be treated for the same condition with both chiropractic and physical therapy during the same time period. Sometimes the patient will not mention to the provider that they are already receiving treatment. Then the provider sees the patient, submits the claim, but gets denied since the patient is already receiving care.
• Bad Medical Billing Employees Can Destroy Your Practice
  No matter how much you invest in great medical billing technology or process, without the right billing team you will still not see superior medical billing results. Follow the steps in this article to put together a world-class billing team.
• Medical Billing Cannot Succeed Without Tough Denial Management
  Proper medical billing denial management can increase a practice's revenue by 20 percent or more. It can also lower the cost of medical billing and speed up collections. Proper denial management is a powerful medical billing tool that should not be ignored.
• Medical Billing Reporting - Proximity Condition For Monthly Practice Profitability Analysis
  Cost-Revenue or Charge-Payment report is a useful and simple bottom line operational performance analysis tool, because it helps to extrapolate the success of proposed investment or process alterations. The great value of Cost-Revenue report as an analysis tool is only matched by its simplicity and ease of production: it simply displays side-by-side charges and payments posted in any given month. However, indiscriminate use of Cost-Revenue Analysis (CRA) may result in erroneous decisions and potential financial disasters. This short note discusses a key condition for correct application of CRA and presents an alternative tool suitable for cases when that condition is violated.
• UB04 Form - What is a UB04 Form, Where Do I Get One, and How Do I Fill it Out?
  Do you need a UB04 Form completed for an insurance claim and don't know what it is, where to get one, or how to fill it out? Certain medical insurance claims must be filed on UB04s in order to receive payment. Many people are lost as to how to accomplish this.
• Negotiating the Medical Bill You Receive From a Hospital
  Did you know you can negotiate the medical bill you receive from a hospital? It's true.
• HIPAA Compliance Redux
  Today I picked up a couple of prescriptions from the pharmacy. Again it hit me how no one seems to really be paying attention to the privacy rules-oh if you ask them they show you all of the systems they have in place to meet those compliance standards, but those are quite simply just systems and systems do not fill the bill. As I was waiting in line and my time came I was handed a sign in form acknowledging my prescriptions.
• Chiropractic Billing Index Keeps 100 Percent of Its Members Since August But Changes Top Placements
  In October, the Chiropractic Office Billing Precision Index (BPI) gained 0.1 points above its September mark. Overall, September BPI reached 21.1 under-performing the national average of 17.7 by 3.4, and 5.6 points away from its best record of 15.5 in March of 2008.
• Negotiating the Medical Bill You Receive From a Hospital
  Did you know you can negotiate the medical bill you receive from a hospital? It's true.
• How Doctors Can Solve Cash Flow & Reimbursement Problems
  Insurance companies, Medicare and Medicaid are not coming to you the health professional with more money. Quite the opposite. Third party billing companies are not finding more ways to increase your income. So how do you solve cash flow problems?
• Is Your Chiropractic Practice Management System Built Backwards? Part I
  As the economy takes a downturn and insurance companies decrease payments and increase the number of audits, it is important that chiropractors join forces. Using web based technology chiroprators can now use centralized control to manage huge sources of man power and gain economies of scale. This enables them to not only battle back against insurance companies but decrease their practice overhead, increase patient compliance, and, in turn, increase the overall practice profitability.
• What You Should Know About Medical Billing
  Medical billing is the business of submitting and following up on claims to insurance companies so that doctors can receive payment for their services. This is the process utilized by most insurance companies, both government-owned and privately-owned. The actual billing process will take place between a healthcare provider and the insurance company, who is actually making the payment.
• Did Palmetto GBA Break the Medicare Payment System?
  Palmetto GBA transition of the Medicare CMS payment system has been a painful experience for thousands of Medicare providers. This has resulted in Medicare rejected claims and payment delays causing financial hardship for many healthcare clinics.
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