Month: January 2019

Allzone Management Services is a Silver Sponsor at the 2019 Healthpac User’s Meeting in Savannah, GA.

Allzone Management Services is a Silver Sponsor at the 2019 Healthpac User’s Meeting in Savannah, GA.

Healthpac has announced that Allzone Management Services, Inc., an industry leader in Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management Outsourcing Solutions, will be one of the Silver Sponsors for the Healthpac 2019 Annual User’s Meeting. Allzone Management Services, Inc., is pleased to announce that they will be exhibiting at the Healthpac 2019 Annual User’s Meeting from February 07th […]
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CMS Advanced Practitioner Professional Billing

Understanding CMS Advanced Practitioner Professional Billing

Many providers are still struggling with the non-physician practitioner (NPP) billing rules from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Most facilities are now referring to NPPs as Advanced Practitioner Professionals or APPs. I get questions all the time about APP billing, and during audits many times it is found that the rules just […]
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Four Ways RCM Must Transform for the Shift to Value-Based RCM

Four Ways RCM Must Transform for the Shift to Value-Based RCM

Value-based care is driving transformation of many established operations within medical groups—and the revenue cycle is no different. It is likely that 2018 will be remembered as the year that value-based care became a financial reality for most U.S. medical practices. Those participating in MIPS (the Merit-based Incentive Payment System) received their first round of […]
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Revenue Cycle Resolutions

Revenue Cycle Resolutions

It’s a new year! While your organization’s initiatives may not have changed when the ball dropped, you can be sure that your employees are feeling a burst of motivation as they start 2019, an eagerness to tackle the tough to-dos and an energy to learn, grow, and achieve. Perhaps you’re feeling it too! Let’s capitalize […]
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Provider Billing Policies Hit Families Hardest

Beyond Benefit Design, Provider Billing Policies Hit Families Hardest

  What happens when record increases in health insurance premiums and deductibles put too much stress on patients’ pocketbooks? They delay needed care out of fear they’ll be unable to shoulder an unexpected medical expense for themselves or their families. Now more than ever, patients worry about their ability to cover out-of-pocket healthcare costs, a […]
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How Analytics Can Help Boost the Success of EHR

How Analytics Can Help Boost the Success of EHR Go-Lives

At HIMSS19, John Rekart, chief of quality management and informatics at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation will show how homegrown analytics enabled a 25 percent post-implementation reduction in sentinel events. New electronic health record rollouts are infamously fraught with risk. At best, a they can cause workflow disruption, confusion among clinical staff and […]
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Non-Coverage Denials

Non-Coverage Denials: Cause and Cure

Explanation of Medicare Benefits (EOB) error message 96 Non-covered charge was the No. 1 reason for claims denials in December in all of Medicare Jurisdiction H, according to the region’s Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC). “Prior to performing or billing a service, ensure that the service is covered under Medicare,” Novitas Solutions says on their website. This should be […]
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How Blockchain Could Make an Impact In Healthcare

HIT Think: How Blockchain Could Make an Impact In Healthcare

Blockchain, like other young and disruptive technologies, offers wide opportunities to impact healthcare, an industry that is primed for disruption. Despite being the largest sector of the U.S. economy, healthcare is plagued by slow systems, wasteful financing, and resource utilization and operational inefficiencies. To address these issues, innovative solutions like blockchain can alter the arithmetic […]
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Physician Fee Schedule and EM

Getting Paid In 2019

Navigating the reimbursement landscape can be confusing for physicians because of the number of entities that exert influence on payments. For example, CMS uses the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) to adjust Medicare payments, and sometimes these changes can have dramatic effects on doctor pay. Coding changes reward some types of care while de-emphasizing others […]
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