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What We’re Reading: Four Easy Ways to Boost Patient Time of Service Collections

In this age of insurance plans with high cost-sharing (e.g., deductibles, co-insurance) requirements, a solid collections policy is critical for every medical practice. When practices are lax about checking patient eligibility for services and ensuring a complete picture of what … Read Full Post

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Minimize Claims Issues with One Simple Step

Most physician practices experience claims challenges, from denials and rejections to payment inaccuracies. As frustrating (and costly) as those issues are, they are almost avoidable with one simple step: verifying patient insurance eligibility. For patients covered by Medicare, it may … Read Full Post

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What We’re Reading: 7 Tips on How to Manage the Medical Office in Tough Economic Times

Although this “article’s” underlying message is the medical practice’s need of a good software program, the seven tips are sound operational activities that transcend software. Checking patient eligibility, timely billing of all visits (including hospital and nursing home rounds), and … Read Full Post

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Tag Archives: patient eligibility

What We’re Reading: Four Easy Ways to Boost Patient Time of Service Collections

Minimize Claims Issues with One Simple Step

What We’re Reading: 7 Tips on How to Manage the Medical Office in Tough Economic Times

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