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The Practice Management Weekly Digest: PHI Breach, E-Prescribing, ICD-10 Issue Database

Posted on December 29, 2013 By Michael Sculley

Welcome to the PracticeSuite weekly medical billing digest – the best round up of industry news from the past week. Subcontractor Exposes Patient Information From Fairfax County Community Health Care A subcontracted vendor to the Fairfax County Community Health Care Network left patient inform...

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Will ICD-10 Fraud Trigger Longer Revenue Cycles?

Posted on December 28, 2013 By Michael Sculley

Much has been made about the challenges associated with the ICD-10 transition in October, including expected problems with medical billing coder productivity. But little has been said about another challenge likely to affect the industry: fraud detection. There are several types of fraud prevention ...

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Medical Billing Lessons Learned from Our Neighbors to the North

Posted on December 26, 2013 By Michael Sculley

Canada changed over from ICD-9 codes to ICD-10 codes starting in 2001. The bad news is the implementation did not go smoothly. The good news is we can learn from the mistakes their providers made. ICD10Watch recently outlined eight lessons practice managers may want to incorporate into their changeo...

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Practice Management Weekly Digest: Physician Pays for ID Protection, Social and Cloud Technology, ACO Roadmap

Posted on December 21, 2013 By Michael Sculley

Welcome to the PracticeSuite weekly medical billing digest – the best round up of industry news from the past week: Solo Physician Paying ID Protection for 8,900 HealthData Management reported this week that a San Jose orthopedic surgeon is offering just under 9,000 of his patients a year’s ...

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What's Next: ACA Deadlines in 2014 and 2015

Posted on December 19, 2013 By Michael Sculley

Having trouble keeping up with the looming medical billing deadlines associated with the ACA? You’re not alone. This fall, we saw the insurance marketplace open, the disproportionate share hospital payment kick in, and the two-midnight inpatient admission policy put in place. Now it’s time to lo...

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5 Threats That Can End Your Medical Billing Business in 2014

Posted on December 18, 2013 By Michael Sculley

There are times when continuing to do business the way you always have is an acceptable choice. You may not be as successful as some competitors, but you’ll still be in business. This is not one of those times. The threats to medical billing companies using a traditional model are so severe that m...

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It’s a Brave New (Medical Billing) World—Are You Ready?

Posted on December 17, 2013 By Michael Sculley

The medical billing industry is in the midst of a sea change, which means tremendous opportunity for those who understand what’s coming and prepare accordingly. For that, we need to look at where we’ve been (2011-13), where we are now (2014), and where we’ll be in the next couple of years—fo...

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Throw Away the Box [Medical Billing Trends]

Posted on December 16, 2013 By Michael Sculley

All of us in business have, at one time or another, been told to think outside the box. If you’re in healthcare, it’s time to tear the box into pieces and throw it in the trash. The enormous shifts taking place in healthcare and the pace at which they’re occurring means everyone providing se...

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The Practice Management Weekly Digest: Risky File Sharing, a Successful Rural ACO, and Security Risk List for 2014

Posted on December 14, 2013 By Michael Sculley

Welcome to the PracticeSuite weekly medical billing digest – the best round up of industry news from the past week. 90% of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Employees Risk Information Security Because healthcare professionals are frequently on the go, those without a safe file-sharing system are r...

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CFO Trapped in Bookkeeper's Software – Claims Rejection by Payers

Posted on December 12, 2013 By Michael Sculley

As a medical billing service, it’s hard to soar with the eagles when your billing software is a turkey. Turkey software is the kind that gobbles up all your time, keeps you pecking around in data entry, and offers you no way to help your clients stuff the financial holes so common to manual pr...

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The Practice Management Weekly Digest: PHI Breach, E-Prescribing, ICD-10 Issue Database

Will ICD-10 Fraud Trigger Longer Revenue Cycles?

Medical Billing Lessons Learned from Our Neighbors to the North

Practice Management Weekly Digest: Physician Pays for ID Protection, Social and Cloud Technology, ACO Roadmap

What's Next: ACA Deadlines in 2014 and 2015

5 Threats That Can End Your Medical Billing Business in 2014

The Practice Management Weekly Digest: Risky File Sharing, a Successful Rural ACO, and Security Risk List for 2014

CFO Trapped in Bookkeeper's Software – Claims Rejection by Payers

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