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Get higher contracts rates! Credentialing is a very complex process. Sometimes it takes so long and goes so difficult that providers just agree on whatever Health Insurance plan offers. Once a provider is contracted with a plan, he or she must accept plan’s fee schedule as payment in full. ...

Preauthorization Hell, WCH Can Help! We understand the complications of obtaining preapprovals from certain services from payers. Why do you think insurance companies make their rules more stringent by initiating the pre-authorization process for many services? Yes, clear the answer – to re...

WCH Removed Physician from the OMIG Exclusion List The Office of the Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG) is an independent entity established within the New York State Department of Health. Its major aim is to promote and protect the integrity of the Medicaid program by preventing and detecting frau...

WCH Invests into Staff Training to Keep Your Practice Secure WCH professionals are all geared towards making your practice secure and superb. WCH Management invests heavily into the staff education and improving their professional qualifications. The following illustrates how far we go to exceed o...

WCH Organized Webinar on NYS Requirements – Medicaid Update Recently, it has been announced that all Medicaid Managed Care providers must be enrolled with State Medicaid programs no later than January 1, 2018. Otherwise, they will be removed from the Medicaid Managed Care Provider Network. E...

WCH Introduces Credentialing Live Link Considering the amount of ongoing processes in WCH Credentialing Department, it became crucial for us to inform our clients regarding their enrollment status in a more effective and efficient way. I would say even a more sophisticated way. Understanding that a...

The Secret behind Your Practice High Reimbursement Here at WCH, OUR GREATEST ASSET is that we provide medical practices with up to 98% reimbursement on claims. We don’t only cross all “t’s” and dot all “i’s” to make this happen, we also fight back on behal...

We are muchmore than just a billing company The Healthcare industry is a wide extensive field and does not include only treating of patients, just as the WCH Service Bureau does not provide solely Medical Billing Service. Along with treating patients, there are still many things that medical provi...

Automation of Processes in WCH Oxford University study has predicted that about 47% of all jobs and services will be automated by 2033. We are not going to be left out of this automation movement. Being automated means being paperless, keeping all data and information under control, focusing more ...

WCH i-Smart is getting Smarter. i-Smart EHR introduces comprehensive, productive, easy and user-friendly MIPS-dashboard. Today the new MIPS-dashboard gives an opportunity to manage and track performance data on each MIPS (Merit Based Incentive Pay System) program category – Quality, Im...

WCH Revenue Text is already in operation. We are pleased to announce that WCH Revenue Text service was successfully launched this month. This new live account update service sends texts to WCH clients with billing and payment flow summaries. Now WCH clients can track claims created, claims sent to...

WCH recognized and cancelled anincorrect overpayment request Many providers, when receive overpayment notices from commercial insurance payers, start investigating the reasons, digging into the old documentation, writing appeals or some providers just pay the balance. Billing department specialist...

WCH Trains Practice Staff and Nearly Doubles Reimbursements When a dermatology clinic came to WCH with too many zeros on their EOBs (explanation of benefits), WCH Account Representative Alla Keinig quickly analyzed their in-house billing and turned reimbursements around from less than 50 percent t...

MIPS Reporting Countdown: Act Now to Avoid Penalties By Nargiza Nurlybaeva, WCH Billing Group Supervisor It's been six months since the MIPS (Merit Based Incentive Pay System) program began. Do you know what you need to do to comply in 2017? Or if you even need to start reporting quality and impr...

One Click: Checking Patient Eligibility with WCH iSmart Just Got Smarter The WCH iSmart EHR just got smarter. A new feature lets providers connect to any insurer to verify patient eligibility instantaneously. No more searching multiple payer portals or working through multiple phone prompts to wait...