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As it is currently with nearly all medical specialties, getting paid flawlessly is a challenge in podiatry. Newly-introduced podiatry coding guidelines, combined with an increasing number of patients, make it harder for physicians to receive fair payments for their services.Podiatry medical billing ...

Still have no contracts with some insurance payers? While out-of-network payment rates may be attractive, insurances are still quite “peaky” when it comes to quality assurance. However, having no enrollment contact does not mean facing no recoupments.According to internal research done b...

If you are a physician working at a private medical facility, you may be cooperating with your colleagues when it comes to determining a patient’s clinical condition and subsequent methods. Did you know that the CMS pays for split evaluation and management services perform...

Documenting your patients’ clinical conditions is an extremely tough, but important process. The CMS and commercial payers require you to indicate the desired medical necessity in a maximum level of detail in the medical records and on insurance claims of each patient. The latter process inclu...

Mental health is extremely important. This “umbrella” specialty of medicine deals with the issues that directly impact how we think, feel, and cope with our lives. As a result of all the stressful events currently experienced by billions of people all over the world, the dema...

Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine has become an essential way to render health care to everyone in need all over the world. By implementing various virtual care solutions, healthcare providers have kept their businesses up and running, while also keeping their patients and ...

Being a healthcare professional is a challenging mission. Every day, most of you have to balance between saving lives and dealing with the issues related to payments. With that in mind, you are obviously familiar with the aspects like claim denials, recoupments, and payer crede...

The Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) is the new bipartisan regulation signed by the US Congress in 2021. This initiative aims to make telehealth regulation flexibilities permanent and expand telehealth coverage through Medicaid. More importantly...

As we step together into the world of metaverses, cryptocurrency and augmented reality, cybercrimes become more and more sophisticated. If in 2008 we only had to worry about our emails getting leaked, in 2022 cybercrimes can be literally life-threatening. With hackers from all over the world targeti...

With the COVID-19 pandemic still at its highest, many outpatient healthcare offices are experiencing decreasing practice revenue for various reasons.Today, we would like to share a tangible strategy that can help you keep your cash flow in good order regardless of the circumstances.I. Dedicate yours...

Claim collection is an extremely complicated process. Healthcare providers and their staff constantly have to make sure that their claims are paid by insurance carriers, let alone paid appropriately. While payers rush to make their clinical reimbursement policies more and more compli...

With over half a million cases currently reported in the US every day, the COVID-19 pandemic is far from being over. A constant feeling of responsibility mixed with a trivial fear of getting sick from yet another new variant of the virus has encouraged millions of Americans to get a jab.As safe as t...

The new pandemic has had a shocking effect on an entire world. With many businesses ceasing their operations in times of a universal turmoil, healthcare providers have been those suffering the most. Not only do you risk your lives when treating COVID-19-positive patients, but some of you may have al...

Do you treat Medicare patients? If so, you may have heard of Advance Care Planning (ACP) services. These are voluntary treatment sessions aimed at discussing a patient’s health care wishes if they become unable to make decisions about their care in the future. For example,...

Did you know that insurance enrollment complicated process that can take up to 180 days to be completed? Moreover, surgeons like you have to dedicate lots of their time & effort to the preparation of each application form. The struggle always begins before the enrollment process is e...