Medical billing is a critical component of healthcare revenue cycle management, and choosing the right outsourcing model can significantly impact your company’s efficiency and profitability. Typically, there are two...
The release of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 ICD-10-CM code updates brings a fresh set of changes for healthcare professionals, particularly for medical billers and billing companies. Starting October...
The Importance of Collaboration Between Sales and Operations for Business Success Effective collaboration and communication between sales and operations are critical to ensuring business success. When these two departments...
As the healthcare industry becomes increasingly digital, the protection of patient information has become a top priority. Cybersecurity threats in healthcare have become more sophisticated and frequent, making it...
In recent years, mental health has become a hot topic, with increasing attention being paid to the importance of mental health care in our lives. From the stress of...
Telehealth has continued to be an important part of healthcare delivery in April 2023. Here’s an updated version of the blog post on Telehealth: Telehealth, also known as telemedicine,...
Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes have been around since 1966, continue to be set by the specialized panel with the American Medical Association, and they aren’t going anywhere. Each...
Medical billers do it all. They are the nucleus of a healthcare organization, constantly working and keeping things flowing through the revenue cycle. The goal of any medical biller...
What is leadership? An age-old question exhaustively studied by scholars and practitioners alike throughout centuries, from the greatest conqueror of all time Alexander the Great to the father of...
When considering what productivity actually is or by looking at its actual definition, there are two things that spring to mind in quick succession. First, the efficiency of any...
4D Global Named 1st for Medical Billing & 6th for BPO! In their annual report of the highest performing B2B companies in the world, Clutch has identified the best...
An analysis conducted on publicly available hospital data revealed that the financial penalties for US hospitals in the year 2014 would have been considerably changed, if the Centers for...
The final MACRA rule aims to reform Medicare payment model and offer more flexibility to physicians by simplifying some difficult data reporting requirements. However, some experts argue that the...
The Republicans have been focusing on the way Obama Administration is repaying the insurers who are participating in Federal health insurance exchange under risk adjustment programs established by ACA....
According to the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), policymakers must review the earlier transition from Meaningful Use Stage 1 to Stage 2, while transitioning from MU Stage 2 to...
The Department of Health And Human Services (HHS) Inspector General Daniel Levinson recently called on CMS to work with Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12. The call was to incorporate...
The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) has released the Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) of 2017 draft for Health Information Technology for public comments. ONC said that the advisory...
In a recent announcement, Aetna confirmed that they are withdrawing their participation from Affordable Care Act’s HIEs. Aetna is planning to withdraw their participation in 11 states, including Texas,...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the 2015 quality and financial performance results for Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) on August 25, 2016. The Medicare ACO program,...
In a recent letter to CMS acting Administrator, Andy Slavitt, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has asked for a quick finalization of a 90-day reporting period...