Tammy Tipton is President of Appeal Solutions Inc. and the co-author of Power of Appeals Denial Management System. She is also the author of Turning Insurance Denials Into Dollars, a popular denial management manual for both hospital and physicians. She has written extensively on the topic of medical receivables and has frequently lectured on conducting
James Hammer is the VP of Product & Program Management at Harmony Healthcare IT, where he leads a team of data migration and archiving experts charged with preserving vital information so lives may be improved. Here, he discusses how Health IT has evolved and offers his advice to practices that are shopping for EHR solutions.
Merrilee Severino, CPC, CMMP and CEO of Your Business Medic, is a national speaker on practice management, billing and coding, and compliance whom has worked with some of the largest named publications in the medical industry. We recently asked Merrilee for her expertise on revenue cycle management and get her take on best practices for
If you’ve followed our extensive reviews of medical billing software programs, you know that we’ve ranked the top eight options and are reviewing each one in depth so you can make an educated choice for your practice. Now that we’ve covered the second through seventh contenders, we’re going to the top of the pile and
Karen Blanchette is the Association Director at The Professional Association of Health Care Office Management (PAHCOM), managing membership, education, access to networks and resources, and medical office manager professional development nationally. We recently reached out to Karen to get a better understanding of the challenges facing managers of small medical practices today and the resources
In a recent letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association, physicians described the unrealized potential of EHR technology and their colleagues’ general unhappiness with these systems.
“There is building resentment against the shackles of the present EHR; every additional click inflicts a nick on physicians’ morale. Current records miss opportunities to harness available data and predictive analytics to individualize treatment. Meanwhile, sophisticated advances in technology are going untapped,” they wrote.
Is it time to separate your practice from your current software? Many practices are re-evaluating their systems, some of which have been in place long before Meaningful Use. This series will explore the process of making the switch.
Insurance and government rules and regulations have certainly clouded the healthcare landscape over the past year or so, and with such clouding has come to rise of unclean claims for healthcare providers. Essentially, an unclean claim is one that requires a healthcare provider or patient to jump through extra hoops in order to provide information
Think your practice is too small for a data breach to occur? Think again. It’s vital to stay on the right side of HIPAA requirements for data security. This isn’t always easy and can cost a significant amount, but in general, locking down data is less expensive than damage control after a breach. Breaches of
Smaller physician-owned practices have a lot to contribute to the healthcare conversation, even when practice consolidation and hospital ownership are the name of the care delivery game in many areas. This insight comes not from a lonely rural practitioner, but from Dr. Farzad Mostashari, former national coordinator for health information technology at the US Department
How much patient information can you share with…your patient? And does your support staff know the answer? Patients’ access to their own health information is a cornerstone of HIPAA, the intent of which is to protect the privacy and security of identifiable health information. However, HIPAA has generated plenty of confusion as to who has
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