SILICON VALLEY, Calif., March 26, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cloud based medical office platform PracticeSuite announced today it has achieved Stage 3 Meaningful Use certification of its electronic health record (EHR) software for general medicine and a number of health specialties through InfoGard, an ONC-authorized certification body (ONC-ACB).
Care Coordination (Part 2) In our last post, we dove into the details of CMS’s Chronic Care Management (CCM) program, which pays providers to deliver coordinated care to Medicare and dual-eligible patients with two or more chronic conditions. In this post, we’ll look at all the benefits to patients and providers.First and foremost, this program helps providers get
Care Coordination 2.0 (Part 1) CMS care initiative programs are finally rewarding doctors for work they’ve been doing all along, namely Chronic Care Management (CCM), and there’s a renewed interest in care coordination as providers and payers realize its significance in patient outcomes. With chronic care patients benefiting the most—and two-thirds of Medicare patients are shown
Looking at EMR companies’ websites, you might be tempted to dismiss them as essentially the same. And that’s true—to an extent. The fact is, most EMRs are similar because they were built atop practice management systems designed around linear processes and office workflows that have little to do with diagnosing a condition or charting a clinical encounter.
Many physicians struggle to find and retain qualified staff to run the insurance claims side of their practice. In Jacksonville, Fla., where the local economy went into recession, hiring was a particularly painful process. PracticeSuite Helps Jacksonville Practice Clear Up $900,000 AR Backlog In fact, an inability to engage experienced billing staff led one Jacksonville
A Revenue Cycle Management SOAP Note for 2019 Subjective Your medical practice presents today with recurring feelings of frustration and anxiety with secondary pain. The majority of the pain is felt in accounts receivable, as delays and denials double and triple the amount of effort it takes to get paid. The pain is getting moderately
In our review of the 10 best medical billing companies, ElationHealth Medical Billing Service comes in at number 2 with a five star rating based on: Revenue cycle performance metrics, experience and specialties supported, client responsiveness, integrated technology, and over-all customer satisfaction. Physicians with Elation Health’s Clinical First EHR can take advantage of its billing
Near Zero Collections – To Healthy Cash Flow – Emery Medical SolutionsIt was a healthcare provider’s worst nightmare: six months with collections at near zero the result of switching medical billing services. Nor was it a simple technology or communications problem—the billing vendor promised collections in the 90-percent range to lure the Center in, then
The Decision To Outsource Can Be a Tough One Many of our doctors have made the financial decision to outsource claims management and collections to PracticeSuite’s expert RCM services team. Here’s why they choose not to handle RCM in-house: “We’re doing better than we have ever done before…my collection rate has improved.” “The support from
Doctors just want to take care of their patients, but everything you do – or don’t do when it comes to coding, determines what you’ll get paid. So our question to you is this: Is the lack of clinical documentation knowledge killing your bottom line? Under-coding represents the number one area of lost revenue for
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