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Know your strengths and watch your language when dealing with payers.

Outsourcing to a billing company can help a frazzled physician, but your practice will still need to collect patient demographics — a common source of billing errors. Still, you will enjoy reduced staffing needs and improved compliance.

Ever wonder what payer mix would yield the greatest return on investment for your practice? Well, we have provided links that provides a list of payers and their associated rankings.

How do I know if my collections are in line with other practices? These are some benchmarks to see how you compare.

We know it’s tough out there. So many physicians are feeling underappreciated, overworked, and out of breath that, judging from our mail, one might think that being a doctor is not one of the world’s coolest things to be. But it is — really.

How is the recession affecting your practice? The answer can depend on your location, specialty, and timing.

With concerns regarding the federal deficit and budget turmoil, should you have concerns of being targeted by a Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC)?

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, was enacted 12 years ago by Congress, partly to address the security and privacy of health data. Since then, myths have abounded. We’ve debunked some of the common falsities for you.

President Bush on July 15 vetoed the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008. The House and Senate the same day overwhelmingly overrode the veto.

The Medicare program will not process any physician and associated non-physician practitioner claims for the first 10 business days of July, according to a notification sent late June 27 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to Congress.

In just a few years, blogs have become a phenomenon. Every day, an estimated 175,000 new blogs and more than 1.6 million blog updates go online, according to Technorati, a blog tracking firm. As of late January 2007, Technorati was tracking 63.2 million b

The quickest way to create an effective marketing plan, plus 7 ways to ensure its success.

It is no secret that there are issues within the healthcare sector that warrants attention, and it is arguable that the entire system is in dire need of an overhaul. What may not be quite so obvious are the conditions that medical facilities have faced in

Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has released a discussion draft of proposed health care information technology legislation.

Where do you look to figure out what kind of return you and your organization will enjoy by investing in technology?

Pay attention to your internal communications processes. Focusing on how you code for specific services can pay off big in the long run.

Should I keep my existing practice management system and interface it with my new EMR, or should I purchase an integrated system that combines a new EMR with new practice management software?

Use technology to lower denials and increase collections.

You can search for almost anything on Google, you can check email, search neighborhoods, see streets, and soon you may be able to access your medical records.

Like any other industry, the coding segment of healthcare propagates its own myths and folklore about how things work. But sometimes those stories go too far.

Make the Most of the Tools You Already Have

Wireless and mobile healthcare infrastructures are leading the way in overcoming medicine's most challenging obstacles.

The numbers are surprising.

Barriers to EHR Implementation

Can you implement health records from a practical and profitable standpoint…………We Can!

Leaders of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee in April will unveil legislation to facilitate health information technology adoption . . .

Federal government officials hope initiatives now under way will demonstrate by year-end that a national health information network is viable.

Health care CIOs and other I.T. executives are optimistic about the growth of real-time claims adjudication as well as clinical decision support.

Cincinnati-based YourCity.MD LLC has launched a legal forum for physicians on its Web sites.

Contractor hired to audit the naughty

Medical Offices today should take a page from the Banking Industry's book and learn the economics of automation. There are automation techniques, software modules, and services to increase the level of automation. The resulting efficiency and economics

Keeping its lower-income clientele out of the emergency room is part of Wal-Mart's prescription for a more wholesome bottom line.

The CMS last month unveiled 74 detailed specifications for the 2007 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative, which sets up a financial incentive for physicians to participate in a voluntary quality-reporting program.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today that it is initiating a contingency plan that extends the compliance date for the National Provider Identifier (NPI) from May 23, 2007 to May 23, 2008.

Let’s imagine a hospital where life support systems are running Windows Vista. Would you trust it with your life? Bill Gates says Vista can run life support systems.

Financial rewards of up to $150,000 are available to doctors and practice groups that adopt electronic medical records, online chats between physicians and patients and automatic health reminder registries for patients with chronic diseases.

A new study by Yale University, published in Anesthesia and Analgesia, throws weight behind the argument for stopping the ban of cell phones in hospitals.

Motion Computing has just released it's new mobile, medical device called the Motion C5.