Category: medical billing

  • Navigating Financial Challenges & Staffing Shortages in Healthcare

    Navigating Financial Challenges & Staffing Shortages in Healthcare

    As a healthcare provider, you’re well aware of the financial challenges that come with providing quality care to your patients. In recent years, higher costs associated with treatment, increased demand, and staffing shortages have caused many healthcare organizations to look for alternative ways to reduce costs and optimize services.

  • Get Ready for these 2023 Procedure Coding Updates

    This year’s major revision of the E/M facility service coding structure is the star of the show. The 2023 CPT code set has seen 102 new codes, 68 deleted codes, and 87 codes with revised long descriptions, as well as 36 new parent codes. This new, unified set of E/M guidelines is sure to make…

  • New Changes for Balance Billing for 2022

    New Changes for Balance Billing for 2022

    New legislation will affect many providers and patients starting next year. According to information in the recent interim final rule these new obligations go into effect September 13, 202. “Health insurance should offer patients peace of mind that they won’t be saddled with unexpected costs. The Biden-Harris Administration remains committed to ensuring transparency and affordable…

  • New Medisoft V24 Features

    New Medisoft V24 Features

    Medisoft released version 24 with several key new features. Among the new features is Transaction Entry Alerts. With alerts, you can create rules that notify billers of potential issues before sending a claim.

  • Medisoft V24 A/R Tracker

    Medisoft V24 A/R Tracker

    The “AR Tracker” module deserves an award for its flexibility in helping to manage your practice.

  • Understand How To Code Telehealth, Telemedicine

    Hint: The terms aren’t interchangeable. Providers are increasing patients’ access to healthcare services through virtual communications. If providing services to patients without an in-person, face-to-face interaction makes sense for your practice, it’s important for you to know how to code the services correctly. While you may hear telehealth and telemedicine used interchangeably, from a coding…

  • What Makes A New Patient “New”?

    What Makes A New Patient “New”?

    Knowing the rules behind billing a new patient versus and established one can be a little tricky and it’s not always as straight-forward as it seems.

  • Can your current payment system store a card on file?

    With more and more patients using HSA’s there is more reason to set up a payment system in your medical office.

  • New PT CPT Codes for 2017

    CPT® 2017 has a few expanded codes for physical therapy evaluations and follow-up exams.  These codes are in effect for dates of service starting January 1, 2017. 97001 to be replaced by three codes in 2017: These new codes will add more specificity and details regarding the scope of the evaluation and states that it…