Blog Archive
2013
- January 2, 2013
ICD-10, ICD-10 CM and ICD-10 PCS Are Not Same
- January 7, 2013
Overview of Dermatology Billing Services
- January 9, 2013
Radiology Billing Services and ICD-10-CM Coding
- January 14, 2013
Dermatology Billing Services and ICD-10 Coding
- January 16, 2013
Smaller Private Practices are Vulnerable to ICD-10
- January 18, 2013
Medical Transcription Service will be More Relevant in ICD-10 World
- January 22, 2013
Medical Billing Service for Radiologists and Imaging Centers
- January 25, 2013
Medical Documentation for Dermatology ICD-10 Coding is Different
- January 28, 2013
Private Practices Should Start Preparing for ICD-10 Coding.
- January 30, 2013
Perfect Paradigm: ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes Z00-Z99
- February 4, 2013
Crosswalking ICD-9 to ICD-10 Coding is Not Easy
- February 11, 2013
Future of Medical Transcription and Medical Coding
- February 14, 2013
Changes in Medical Documentation with ICD-10 Coding
- February 18, 2013
RAC Audit Myths Regarding Outpatient Private Practices
- February 21, 2013
Medical Billing and ICD-10 Coding Are Not a Game of Chance
- February 26, 2013
Medical Billing for Migraine Patients With ICD-10 Coding
- February 28, 2013
Maximize Reimbursements By Complete E/M Documentation and Coding
- March 4, 2013
Internal Medicine Medical Billing Services
- March 7, 2013
Pediatrics Billing and Coding
- March 11, 2013
Workers’ Compensation Billing and ICD-10 Coding
- March 18, 2013
Nephrology Medical Billing Services and ICD-10 Coding
- March 22, 2013
ICD-10 and Evaluation and Management (E&M) Coding
- March 25, 2013
Pulmonary Billing: Shortness of Breath in Unspecified Codes
- April 2, 2013
Size Doesn’t Matter in Medical Billing and Coding Business
- April 9, 2013
3 Ways Delaying ICD-10 Transition Will Cost Your Practice
- April 10, 2013
How To Use The Meaningful Use Attestation Calculator
- April 15, 2013
Top 10 ICD-10 Blogs to Watch
- April 17, 2013
Common Reasons Medical Billing Claims Get Rejected
- April 22, 2013
Best Questions to Ask Payers About ICD-10 Transition Readiness
- April 24, 2013
Medicaid vs. Medicare EHR Incentive Program – How to Choose
- April 29, 2013
Big List of upcoming ICD-10 training events
- May 1, 2013
How to Find the Best Certified Electronic Health Record (EHR)
- May 6, 2013
Registry vs. Claims Based PQRS Reporting: Which is Right for You?
- May 8, 2013
Three Reasons Why the RAC Audit Reform Movement Is Important
- May 13, 2013
6 Major RAC Audit Triggers To Monitor
- May 15, 2013
Filling Out The 9 Sections of a PQRS Measure Report
- May 20, 2013
List of Top ICD-10 educational resources
- May 22, 2013
5 Tips to Help Your Practice Avoid Medical Billing Errors
- May 27, 2013
How Far Back Can a Medicare RAC Audit Go
- May 29, 2013
How To Appeal a RAC Audit
- June 3, 2013
Prepare for Costly Conversion to ICD-10
- June 5, 2013
Understanding ICD-10 Documentation Requirements
- June 5, 2013
Using General Equivalence Mappings GEMs to help ICD-10 implementation
- June 10, 2013
Meaningful Use Attestation for Practice Managers
- June 12, 2013
How to Assess the ICD-10 Training Needs of Your Medical Staff
- June 17, 2013
Avoiding and Appealing CMS Audits
- June 19, 2013
5 Steps to Get Started With PQRS Reporting
- June 24, 2013
How To Find The Best ICD-10 Search Tool
- June 26, 2013
3 EHR-based PQRS Reporting Options
- July 1, 2013
6 Important Ways to Reduce Your Practice’s Surgical Billing Errors
- July 3, 2013
New Study Shows RAC Audit Activity Increasing
- July 8, 2013
How to Handle Medical Billing Claim Denials Effectively
- July 10, 2013
6 Ways that Crosswalking Eases ICD-10 Transition
- July 15, 2013
Will The Superbill be Sidelined by ICD-10
- July 17, 2013
How To Use The PQRS Group Practice Reporting Option Correctly
- July 22, 2013
7 Tips for Maximizing Your Medical Practice’s ROI
- July 24, 2013
Understanding and Avoiding Meaningful Use Penalties
- July 29, 2013
4 Tips For Increasing Revenue In A Medical Practice
- July 31, 2013
5 Anesthesia Medical Billing Techniques to Increase Efficiency
- August 5, 2013
5 Tips to Improve Your Practice’s Medical Billing and Collections
- August 7, 2013
The RAC Review — What Providers Need to Know
- August 12, 2013
In-house vs. Outsourcing Medical Billing: Which for your Practice?
- August 14, 2013
How to Implement Quality Measures for Stage 2 Meaningful Use
- August 19, 2013
How to Assess Practice Risk to HIPAA and the HITECH Act
- August 21, 2013
7 ICD-10 Testing Steps Healthcare Providers Should Follow
- August 26, 2013
Pay Attention to New Cardiology Billing Changes
- August 28, 2013
4 Steps to HIPAA Omnibus Rule Compliance for Medical Practices
- September 2, 2013
Staff Re-Training is Must for New Cardiology Billing Codes
- September 4, 2013
How To Monitor ICD-10 Transition Progress
- September 9, 2013
5 Ways To Improve Your Medical Claims Reimbursements
- September 11, 2013
How Does The Affordable Care Act Effect Your Medical Billing Process?
- September 16, 2013
How to Design Effective ICD-10 Budget Planning
- September 18, 2013
How To Get Your Medical Insurance Reimbursements Faster
- September 23, 2013
5 Ways To Rate The Effectiveness Of Your Medical Billing Staff
- September 24, 2013
How Meaningful Use Stage 2 Requirements Can Affect Your Practice
- September 25, 2013
The RAC requests your medical records – now what?
- September 30, 2013
How will the MS-DRG ICD-10 Conversion Project affect your Practice?
- October 1, 2013
How to Improve Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management
- October 2, 2013
ICD-10 Preparation for Physicians: Where Should You Be?
- October 7, 2013
How to Properly Deal With Excess Medicare Reimbursement Payments
- October 8, 2013
PQRS vs. Meaningful Use, What’s The Difference?
- October 8, 2013
Training Videos
- October 8, 2013
White papers
- October 9, 2013
Who Does The HIPAA Omnibus Rule Define As A Business Associate?
- October 14, 2013
Use Appropriate Modifiers to Avoid RAC Audits for Anesthesia
- October 15, 2013
How To Perform A HIPAA Omnibus Rule Risk Analysis
- October 15, 2013
CEO Top Questions
- October 15, 2013
Compliance 101
- October 15, 2013
Optimizing the Billing Process: Expectations and Benchmarks
- October 15, 2013
Health Care Reform and the CHC Revenue Cycle
- October 15, 2013
OBGYN Billing
- October 15, 2013
Intermediate Coding
- October 15, 2013
Front Desk and the CHC Revenue Cycle
- October 16, 2013
How to Benefit from Revenue Cycle Management Outsourcing for Clinics
- October 16, 2013
2013 Community Health Center Workshops
- October 16, 2013
PMG FQHC Client CEO & CFO Forum 2011
- October 16, 2013
Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center Selects Priority Management Group for Its Billing Needs
- October 16, 2013
PMG Helps Boston CHC Tackle Billing Problems
- October 16, 2013
Reimbursement cap for provider executive compensation in New York
- October 16, 2013
PMG’s Efforts to Help CHC Clients Prepare for 5010 Transition Paying Off
- October 16, 2013
Bill Gates: My Plan to Fix The World’s Biggest Problems
- October 16, 2013
PMG Welcomes New Revenue Cycle Management & Billing Client: Christ Community Health Services, Inc.
- October 16, 2013
Health Services, Inc. Selects PMG Revenue Cycle Management & Billing Services
- October 16, 2013
PMG Welcomes Revenue Cycle Management & Billing Client: Advantage Health Centers
- October 21, 2013
Avoid Misunderstanding HIPAA Omnibus Rule Penalties
- October 21, 2013
Welcome
- October 21, 2013
CHC Charges – Are you Being Fair to Yourself?
- October 21, 2013
Community Health Center (CHC) Encounter Rates
- October 21, 2013
Medicare FFS & 5010
- October 21, 2013
Breaking News: Congress approves temporary fee fix, avoids 27% Medicare pay cut
- October 21, 2013
Payer of Last Resort (PLR) for CHC Billing
- October 21, 2013
What is Locum Tenens? Locum Tenens Explained
- October 21, 2013
Prompt Payment Policies: What CHC’s Need to Know
- October 21, 2013
Federal Poverty Level (FPL) Guidelines
- October 21, 2013
5010 Transition
- October 21, 2013
Reassignment of Benefits – OIG Alert
- October 21, 2013
5010 vs Revalidation
- October 21, 2013
Excluded Providers
- October 21, 2013
MACs, RACs, OIG, ZPICs, CERTs and the HEAT….Who’s watching you?
- October 21, 2013
Identifying payers by plan type
- October 21, 2013
Unwillingness Vs. Inability to Pay
- October 21, 2013
Do Nurse Visits Count as Encounters?
- October 21, 2013
CHC and Healthcare Front Desk Optimization
- October 21, 2013
Does the Billing Department Play a Role in EMR Implementation?
- October 21, 2013
Key Peformance Indicators: Net AR & Payment Percentage
- October 21, 2013
Compliance…Staying the course through rough waters
- October 21, 2013
Unintended Consequences of Keeping All CHC Jobs “Local”
- October 21, 2013
HealthCare Reform Upheld by SCOTUS… What’s a CHC to do?
- October 21, 2013
The Role of The Dental Safety Net In Ensuring Access To Oral Health Care
- October 21, 2013
Vague State Statutes… Conservative Interpretation of Federal Policy is the Answer
- October 21, 2013
Testing: The critical step in transitioning from manual to electronic processes
- October 21, 2013
Preventing Dental Disease in Young Children- and Getting Paid for It!
- October 21, 2013
Medicare ABN in a Nut Shell
- October 21, 2013
What if you didn’t have the grant money?
- October 21, 2013
Benefits of Preventative Health Care
- October 21, 2013
Medical Necessity and Documentation
- October 21, 2013
The Importance of Proper Coding at Your CHC
- October 21, 2013
Maximzing OB-GYN Revenue with Medicaid Reimbursement
- October 21, 2013
Sequestration Impact on CHCs… Can you afford to not maximize every potential dollar?
- October 21, 2013
CMS Chapter 13 Reorganization
- October 21, 2013
Is Compliance Risk Real?
- October 21, 2013
Concerned about ‘Patient Experience’? Fix your Revenue Cycle Process
- October 21, 2013
Key Findings in a CHC Fee Schedule Review that will Improve Revenue Capture
- October 21, 2013
ICD-10… PCMH… EMR Optimization… ACA 2014 Impact… Meaningful Use… Who’s on First?
- October 21, 2013
CMS Data on Charges
- October 21, 2013
ICD-10. Are you ready?
- October 21, 2013
The Importance of the CO-109 & CO-45 Denial Codes
- October 21, 2013
Why Admit to Your CHC That There’s Something You Don’t Know?
- October 21, 2013
Medicaid Expansion – Clinic Expansion
- October 21, 2013
Asking the right question to get a more accurate response
- October 21, 2013
Accounts Receivable Management Tips for CHC’s & More
- October 21, 2013
Welcome to ICD10 Clients
- October 21, 2013
CHC Outsourcing Horror Stories… Yeah, we’ve heard them too.
- October 21, 2013
When it comes to software we ask ourselves “build it or buy it”, we should really be asking “build it or rent it?”
- October 21, 2013
One source of truth.
- October 21, 2013
SNOMED-CT to ICD-10: Who Assigns the Code?
- October 21, 2013
Breaking the Denial Management Circle
- October 21, 2013
Medicare PPS is here… now what?
- October 22, 2013
RAC Audit Insurance: Cost-Efficient Protection or Expensive Luxury
- October 23, 2013
Four Ways of Taking Control of your ICD-10 Training Budget
- October 28, 2013
6 Ways To Prevent ICD-10 Rejection
- October 29, 2013
How Customer Service Effects Medical Practice Bottom Line
- October 30, 2013
How Proper Coding Helps Clinics Avoid RAC Audits
- November 4, 2013
Significant changes to Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes for psychiatry and psychotherapy services
- November 4, 2013
Assessing the Potential Impact on Sequestration on Community Health Centers, Patients, and Medically Underserved Communities
- November 4, 2013
U.S. Warning to Hospitals on Medicare Bill Abuses
- November 4, 2013
Regulatory Update
- November 4, 2013
FQHC Payment Increase 2013
- November 4, 2013
Health Law Alert
- November 4, 2013
7 Things Medical Billers Should So to Increase Revenue
- November 4, 2013
The Science Behind Medical Billing
- November 4, 2013
Payers Embrace Medical Homes ‘With Enthusiasm’ to Cut Costs, Improve Care
- November 4, 2013
DecisionHealth Breaking News Alert: OIG releases 2013 Work Plan
- November 4, 2013
3 Trends Reshaping Physician Practices
- November 4, 2013
Medical spending likely to remain high despite healthcare law
- November 4, 2013
Payers Developing and Acquiring Surgery Centers: Growing Model of ASC Ownership
- November 4, 2013
One-year delay for ICD-10 is finalized
- November 4, 2013
PA Authority and Power Expanded in Mass
- November 4, 2013
ACA decision leaves questions for health centers
- November 4, 2013
Businesses will push Perry to rethink Medicaid expansion
- November 4, 2013
Study Shows Community Health Centers Compare Well With Private Practices
- November 4, 2013
Those Pesky Insurance Exchanges
- November 4, 2013
AMA 2012 National Health Insurer Report Card
- November 4, 2013
2012 Integration Summit – Save the Date
- November 4, 2013
Supreme Court Decision on the Constitutionality of the PPACA
- November 4, 2013
5010 Enforcement Discretion Period Ends June 30, 2012
- November 4, 2013
OIG Releases Semiannual Report to Congress
- November 4, 2013
Community Health Centers Provide Care, Promote Wellness.
- November 4, 2013
An Outside Approach to Revenue Cycle Improvement
- November 4, 2013
Louisiana’s Medicaid EHR Incentive Program
- November 4, 2013
Improvements to PECOS Online Enrollment System
- November 4, 2013
Community clinics have odds stacked against them
- November 4, 2013
HHS final rule on medicaid expansion
- November 4, 2013
BREAKING NEWS – CMS extends 5010 deadline
- November 4, 2013
Official notice from CMS regarding extension of 5010 enforcement delay
- November 4, 2013
Breaking News: Congress passes temporary fee fix
- November 4, 2013
SGR Update from HBMA GR Committee
- November 4, 2013
HBMA Special Alert re PECOS
- November 4, 2013
NGS has officially afforded limited amnesty for 5010 transition
- November 4, 2013
CMS Delays Limitation on “Brown Bagging” prescription drugs
- November 4, 2013
Subcommittee on Health Center Finance
- November 4, 2013
The Impact of CMS Changes on the FQHC Revenue Cycle
- November 5, 2013
5 Signs Your Practice Is Not ICD-10 Ready
- November 6, 2013
2 Options For Handling Patient Payments with Credit Cards
- November 11, 2013
Tips for Dealing with Increasing Patient Out-Of-Pocket Payments
- November 12, 2013
Tools and Tricks for Improving Healthcare Reimbursement Cycle
- November 13, 2013
Healthcare Reimbursement Changes: Prepare for Future Challenges
- November 18, 2013
How Will Newly Insured Americans Affect Doctors and Practices
- November 19, 2013
How Will Obamacare Affect Reimbursement Rates for Medical Practices
- November 26, 2013
Proposed PPS Encounter Rate Elevation… Better Update Your CHC’s Charge Schedule
- December 9, 2013
How YOU doing?
- December 26, 2013
The Devil is Lurking in your System Dictionaries