Don’t assume the burden of educating patients about their payment responsibilities on your own. Instead, seek a local business partner to help you teach patients about their health plans – particularly the high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) – and you’ll improve collections and patient relations.

You’re not alone if Medicare has been denying your claims or recouping funds for place-of-service (POS) errors for your provider’s hospital services. Protect your revenue and prevent those denials by closely coordinating your practice’s billing department with the hospital’s, experts tell Part B News.

Physician practices and hospitals are rarely in sync, especially when it comes to place of service (POS) billing. And because of that, your practice stands to lose thousands of dollars because of coding errors for services your physician performed in a hospital.

It’s up to your practice to make the hospital-practice relationship more transparent.

This chart reflects how your peers wish to incorporate electronic health records (EHR) by breaking down the exact types of information they want to share with other medical offices electronically but currently share via paper, phone or fax.

How do you report an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) performed by both a neurosurgeon and orthopedic surgeon, even though they weren’t co-surgeons but simply did their respective portion of the procedure? Do you report 22551-22562 (arthrodesis procedure codes set)?

Physicians and practice managers have been trying to decide for months now whether an accountable care organization could be a viable path toward a more secure financial future, but there were plenty of reasons to be wary. The decision could be easier now that the final rule has been issued by HHS.

Healthcare leaders put an enormous amount of time and money into physician recruitment, yet retention is often still an afterthought. If CFOs analyze the cost of turnover, they will likely find that millions of dollars are being lost due to poor physician retention.

After studying nearly 173 primary care physicians who shared notes with more than 38,000 patients at three hospitals, researchers found that patients were enthusiastic about the note sharing, but physicians less so.

Healthcare organizations are working to encourage patients to get engaged in their healthcare data, in part by making personal health records more user-friendly. Part of the adoption problem isn't just a lack of consumer awareness, but the fact that many physicians are wary of records that are created and controlled by patients. Among their concerns: time, accuracy, and control over data.