Tag: Medical Billing Services

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Rural Health Clinic Policies Revised

  Don’t send another RHC claim until you’ve reviewed these key changes for 2022. A Rural Health Clinic (RHC) is a clinic located in a rural, underserved area with a shortage of primary care providers, personal health services, or both. Medicare pays RHCs for the provision of certain primary care and preventive health services in […]
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Revenue cycle management 2.0: The key to successful healthcare finance

This has, in turn, put greater emphasis on the need for Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) systems to enable a healthcare provider to better manage transactions between payer, provider and patients. It can, through the use of various software platforms, boost revenues, reduce denials and enhance the patient experience. According to a survey published by health […]
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Electronic Payment Key to Streamlining Healthcare Claims Management

The complexity around healthcare claims management is a major pain point for provider organizations, big and small. The increasing cost of claims coupled with a complex system of many payers, each with their own rules and requirements, creates administrative burdens and obstacles for providers. Ultimately, this complex system impacts the patient experience, as patients must […]
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Big surprises in the No Surprises Act

  In one of the biggest attempts by the federal government to combat surprise medical billing, Congress in late 2020 passed the No Surprises Act (NSA), which imposes a host of new transparency and coverage requirements for employer-sponsored group health plans. Many of the most significant coverage changes were required to be implemented on Jan. […]
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Medical organizations continue to fight surprise-billing dispute process: 5 details

A coalition of medical organizations, including the Physicians Advocacy Institute and 16 state medical associations, filed an amicus brief supporting a legal challenge to the No Surprises Act dispute resolution process, according to a news release emailed to Becker’s. Five things to know: The groups are supporting a lawsuit filed by the American Hospital Association […]
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Telemedicine Providers Take Note – The No Surprises Act Is Effective January 1, 2022

  On December 27, 2020, the No Surprises Act was signed into law as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021.  In July and October 2021, respectively, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Labor, the Department of the Treasury and the Office of Personnel Management (the Departments) issued two Interim Final […]
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