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Billing for split/shared evaluation and management service
4/7/2022
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...
When to use other clinician's documentation for a more specific diagnosis
4/3/2022
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...
How to report behavioral health assessment
3/21/2022
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...
How to get the most out of your telehealth services
3/18/2022
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 ...
Five steps to take to master a revenue cycle management process
3/13/2022
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...
Everything you need to know about the CONNECT for Health Act, 2021
3/13/2022
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...
Protect yourself and your patients from cyberattacks
3/10/2022
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...
The Secrets of Maintaining a Healthy Cash Flow
3/6/2022
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...
5 forms that can be requested by insurance payers
3/2/2022
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...
Proper reporting of vaccine side effects
2/28/2022
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...
How to bill COVID-19-related services
2/23/2022
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...
How to report advance care planning services
2/20/2022
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,...
How to credential a surgeon
2/17/2022
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...
Maximize the revenue of your neurology practice
2/15/2022
Insurance claims billing has never been easy. At WCH Service
Bureau, we know how hard it is to balance between providing top-quality
services to your patients and submitting thousands of claims to benefit plans.
In fact, some of our clients believe that revenue cycle management is at tim...
Best patient engagement solutions
2/13/2022
Since early 2020, you may have experienced a shortage of patients. It is clear that millions of people nationwide, including those whom you treat, have been cautious or even afraid to visit the doctor’s office. While this fear has strongly decreased over the years, COVID-19 is still around. Mo...