VA, Kaiser Permanente invite veterans to pilot program

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and healthcare nonprofit organization Kaiser Permanente recently announced a pilot program designed to exchange EHR information using the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) created by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

This initial pilot is planned to begin in mid-December 2009.

“Utilizing the NHIN’s standards and network will allow [...]

Medical Billing Services: How it is Useful to Medical Company

Author: Pete Noland

Medical treatment of Business has changed significantly in recent years. It presents many administrative difficulties during the preparation of the insurance policy and procedures dealing with complicated claim forms. To avoid these complications, doctors seek help from outside. Hire and advise their representatives, attend seminars insurance company and provide them with periodic financial [...]

5 tips to help you save on health care

By AMY HAMILTON

Being a savvy health care consumer has never been more important. With some people finding health care costs soaring as benefits dwindle, it pays to know how to make your coverage work for you.

Know before you go

It’s not enough to ask if a health care agency takes your health insurance. Your health care [...]

Spring Hill collects more on medical bills than county

By TONY HOLT

Hernando Today

SPRING HILL – The Spring Hill fire district has collected at least 90 percent of its medical billing nearly every year since 2003 – a double-digit improvement compared to the county’s fire and rescue services.

For the five annual billing cycles beginning September 2003 and [...]

With doctors’ workloads increasing, medical billing becomes growth industry

By Jeff Brooks, Special to Ocala Business Journal

OCALA — For many doctors, the toughest part of the job isn’t the grueling work schedule or the never ending license requirements, it’s the bottom line.

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“The hardest part of being a doctor is getting paid,” said Betsy Diago, owner of [...]

How Do Many Large Medical Offices Cut Costs and Downsize?

There are many large medical offices and medical facilities that try to cut cost and downsize on the amount of people that they have as employees in order to make their profits go up. Medical billing outsourcing India is the solution that they usually turn to. In India, there are many medical billing firms [...]

Outsourcing medical billing

In today’s competitive economy outsourcing medical billing seems to be a great option for the health care companies. Now the question arises as where

to outsource medical billing. The best possible destination as of now for outsourcing medical billing seems to be India. Let us look at the benefits of medical billing outsourcing [...]

Medical Billing Outsourcing Benefits

What are the benefits to outsourcing your medical billing to a medical billing firm?

Your practice gains substantial benefits when it hires a medical billing outsourcing firm. By hiring a medical billing outsourcing firm, you free your self and your staff from the paperwork headaches of the reimbursement claims process.

By hiring a medical billing outsourcing [...]

Medical Billing Outsourcing Versus In-house

By Mind Body and Soul

There are many compelling reasons why medical billing outsourcing to a professional medical billing and coding company makes sense. A major problem with in-house medical billing services is the human one. Management, turnover, retraining and growth. Do you have the time and money for all of that? HRM [...]

Medical Billing Outsourcing

By Damian Sofsian

The medical treatment business has changed significantly in the past few years. It presents many administrative difficulties during the preparation of insurance policy procedures and dealing with complicated claim forms. To avoid these complexities, doctors look out for outside help, and hire representatives to advise them, attend insurance company seminars, and provide [...]