The Revenue Cycle Blog
Patient Scheduling: 6 Essential Tips for Healthcare Providers
Check how patient scheduling reduces wait times and boosts patient satisfaction. Read the 6 best practices to improve workflow and revenue management in healthcare.
Pediatric Billing and Coding: All-in-One Guide
Learn essential pediatric billing and coding practices with our guide. Improve accuracy, avoid denials, and ensure proper reimbursement with expert tips.
Credentialing Guide: Overcoming the Top 9 Challenges in Healthcare
Explore the top challenges in healthcare credentialing that can impact service delivery and compliance. This guide identifies 9 key obstacles and provides expert insights and solutions to navigate the complex credentialing landscape effectively.
DME Modifiers: Navigating Durable Medical Equipment Success in 2024
Navigating 2024's Strategies for DME Success with Modifiers and Durable Medical Equipment. Achieve mastery in billing accuracy and revenue optimization. Streamline operations with expert guidance. Contact us today to unlock your practice's full potential.
Automating the Revenue Cycle in 2022 - HBMA Innovation Workshop
The Healthcare Business Management Association (HBMA) healthcare innovation workshop was held on March 20, 2022, in New Orleans. This year's theme was "Increasing Efficiency in Revenue Cycle Management through innovation. Our CEO, Vinod Sankaran, addressed healthcare industry leaders and revenue cycle experts on "Automation/Changes in Revenue Cycle 2022 & Beyond".
Benefits of outsourcing and offshoring Medical Coding processes
Outsourcing and offshoring the Medical Coding process can give you access to certified coders, reduce denials, improve reimbursements, and plug revenue leakage. Healthcare providers and revenue cycle aggregators must choose the right service providers to improve the coding quality and achieve market-leading outcomes.
Cardiology Coding Guidelines & Best Practices
Cardiology coding requires the knowledge of catheter-based techniques to diagnose and treat coronary artery disease and congenital heart defects. Click here to download cardiology coding guidelines & best practices.
Radiology – Coding Guidelines & Best Practices
Reducing reimbursement rates, increasing infrastructure costs, and shifts in payer mix create challenges for radiology practices. Download this guide on Radiology Best Practices to learn more.
Oncology – Coding Guidelines
Oncology coding requires the knowledge of medical treatment, surgical treatment, snd radiation therapy, and they should be well versed with these areas. Download this guide on Oncology Best Practices to learn more.
Urology Surgery and Radiology Coding Guidelines
Urology surgery coding requires training & knowledge as the coders have to keep up with thousands of yearly changes made to the ICD & CPT systems. Despite the frequent changes, few guidelines have remained consistent and continue to serve as key urology surgery & radiology coding rules. Download this guide for more information on urology surgery & radiology coding guidelines.
OB-GYN Coding Guidelines and Best practices
Ob/GYN billing & coding can be challenging to most billers & coders due to the global claims, widely varying coverage terms, and multiple tests performed at numerous facilities. Apart from this, many OB/GYN practitioners lack the billing support provided to large hospitals. Learn more about the challenges in Ob/Gyn coding and best practices followed by our coding experts.
Utilizing Global Delivery for your medical billing processes? Let your clients know!
Global Medical Billing and Coding services teams hold the key to your financial success. As a medical billing services provider, you should let your clients know that you are utilizing global delivery. It is imperative that you bring up the capabilities of your offshore partner in such conversations.
Recruiting and Training the Best Medical Billing Talent
With changes in technology, a successful medical biller needs to understand (and be proficient) in using technology, applying deductive and critical thinking skills, and be an excellent communicator. Ideally, one should look for strong analytical, communication, and inter-personal skills in a medical biller
ED Coding Guidelines and Best practices
Emergency departments are fast-paced environments where care is delivered quickly depending on the patient's condition's criticality. Further, ED does not deal with one specialty per se. ED provides Medical services across specialties. It also requires close coordination of services from when a patient enters an ambulance or an ED facility to discharge, working with multiple clinical practitioners. Learn more about ED coding best practices in this guide from Medical Billing Wholesalers..
Case Study: Improved Revenue Cycle Workflow and reporting functionality accelerates Cash Flow
Most revenue cycle systems have a wealth of unutilized functionality. Revenue cycle professionals need to evaluate workflow and reporting functionality on the revenue cycle system to not only ease their workload but also improve revenue cycle outcomes. Read more in this case study.
Internal Medicine – Coding Best Practices Guide
Internal medicine can be defined as the medical specialty dedicated to the diagnosis and medical treatment of adults. With so many new codes introduced and trickier coding, claim denials have increased for many internal medicine practices. Keep your coding team updated with the latest best practices in internal medicine coding with this guide from Medical Billing Wholesalers.
Medical Coding & Best Practices Guide - Podiatry
Podiatry billing can be complicated in many ways, beginning the need to determine and prove the medical necessity of the treatment, to the coding nuances. It demands meticulous use of modifiers and an understanding of coding for inclusive procedures. In this guide, Medical Billing Wholesalers bring you the guidelines & best practices to be followed to increase collections of your Podiatry practice.
Denial Management Infographic
Get the statistics for claim denials and strategies for preventing them in this Denial Management infographic from Medical Billing Wholesalers.
Understanding Commonly Used Modifiers and Their Impact on Reimbursements
According to the AMA and the CMS, a modifier provides the means to report or indicate that a service or procedure has been performed and altered by some specific circumstance but not changed in definition. Healthcare practices tend to suffer from aged accounts, write-offs, and revenue leakage if they do not have a firm grip on the use of modifiers. In this article, we bring you the common modifiers in medical billing & their applications.
Reimbursements for COVID-19 Treatments & Testing of Uninsured Individuals
As with all other industries, healthcare providers are facing financial challenges stemming from COVID-19. Getting reimbursements for COVID-19 treatments of uninsured individuals is complicated & requires healthcare providers to stay up to date with the nuances of the HRSA program for the uninsured. In this article we provide a consolidated view of everything one should know about the HRSA program for COVID-19 treatments of the uninsured.