Emma Chung is the Senior Vice President of Healthcare Financial Systems where she oversees the company’s operations as it relates to Revenue Cycle Services, Consulting and Technology. We recently talked to Emma about how revenue cycle management has evolved since she started her career and the challenges she sees facing her clients today. Here’s what
Dana R. Bellefountaine Jr., president and CEO of CodeToolz, is a senior C-level executive with over 20 years of experience in Healthcare Finance and Accounting with medical practices ranging from single-physician startups to multi-physician, multi-specialty facilities. He has a considerable background in reimbursement methodologies and financial analysis. He understands the current and emerging challenges that
Matt Dallmann is a Co-Founder of New York City’s VGA Billing Services, and specializes in out-of-network medical billing. Here he talks about some of the challenges related to out-of-network billing and offers his insight on the current climate of revenue cycle management. Read on: Can you tell us the story behind VGA Billing Services? My
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.
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
You don’t need a cadre of studies to tell you that physicians in private practice have to handle more administrative chores than ever. More notable, a recent study found that administrative duties are the top stress producer for most physicians. Data entry and reporting tasks associated with care coordination, value-based purchasing, ICD-10, and population health
It’s been 10 months after the rollout of the 10th revision of the International Classification of Disease (ICD-10), a standardized set of codes used to identify diseases and hospital procedures. After the bustle of preparing for the addition of 140,000 new codes, medical practices have had a chance to catch their breaths and reflect on
Jay Hodes, president of Colington Consulting, is a leading expert in HIPAA compliance with over 30 years of experience. We recently asked him headlines and trends related to HIPAA today and about where healthcare organization should start when assessing compliance. Here’s what he had to say: Tell us about Colington Consulting. What services do you
Health and Human Services and the ONC are encouraging healthcare providers to adopt remote medicine in response to the COVID-19 nationwide public health emergency. According to speakers at last month’s American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) State Legislative Conference, doctors should push insurers to pay them fairly for the care they provide electronically, said Dr.
If you work within the healthcare industry, you already know that proper physical therapy billing and coding is vital to the success of your practice or facility, but what you might not realize is the importance of physical therapy billing analysis tools. While it’s one thing to ensure that patients are being properly billed for
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