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		<title>VA, Kaiser Permanente invite veterans to pilot program</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>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).</p>
<p>This initial pilot is planned to begin in mid-December 2009.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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).</p>
<p>This initial pilot is planned to begin in mid-December 2009.</p>
<p>“Utilizing the NHIN’s standards and network will allow organizations like the VA and the Department of Defense (DoD) to partner with private sector healthcare providers to promote care for Veterans,” said VA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki.</p>
<p>Last week, the VA and Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente sent a joint invitation letter to veterans in the San Diego area who receive care from both institutions to participate in this pilot program.</p>
<p>The pilot program connects Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect and the VA’s EHR system, VistA.</p>
<p>The program puts the highest priority on patient privacy and data security, and no exchange of information will occur without the explicit permission of the individual patient. Patient information will not be shared without first obtaining their consent.</p>
<p>The VA, DoD and HHS have been working closely to create a system that will modernize the way healthcare is delivered and benefits are administered. DoD will be included in the next phase of the pilot program in early 2010.</p>
<p>Above article published http://www.healthimaging.com/index.php?option=com_articles&amp;view=article&amp;id=19731:va-kaiser-permanente-invite-veterans-to-pilot-program</p>
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		<title>Medical Billing Services: How it is Useful to Medical Company</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Author: Pete Noland</p>
<p>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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Author: Pete Noland</p>
<p>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 reports this process is known as medical billing outsourcing.</p>
<p>An efficient and precise medical billing service is of prime importance for the smooth functioning of any medical service provider. A comprehensive medical billing service will in turn secure speedy reimbursements for clients. Medical billing is the process of submitting and following up on claims to insurance companies in order to receive payment. It is useful for medical healthcare providers. Medical billing services also supports on-demand invoicing, batch claims processing and interactive electronic claims Submission and remission.</p>
<p>Medical professionals and medical companies, whether they are Small companies or big organizations, are benefited from medical billing services. This billing can be considered as a communication between Medicare providers and insurance companies.</p>
<p>One can get following benefits by using medical billing services:</p>
<p>Medical Data Entry – patient demographics, details like place date type of service, and referring physician, CPT and ICD Codes, and Modifiers are keyed into the billing system</p>
<p>Medical Claims Billing – electronic and paper</p>
<p>Appeals – make appeals for denials and incorrect payments</p>
<p>Payment Posting and Reconciliation Medical Claims Management Collections Management</p>
<p>Accessibility – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week</p>
<p>Medical billing business involves many other important services such as handling all patient billing inquiries, submitting reports to the doctor, posting payments, mailing patient’s statements and following-up all unpaid insurance claims.</p>
<p>Medical billing services assist physicians in saving money through payroll Generation, equipment reduction, eliminating shipping costs, and support software. Outsourcing to a Professional medical billing company is free from management problems. A number of leading outsourcing medical billing services companies offer medical billing assistance for medical billing needs. The company uses the database free of compensation, and established practice, and other Online.</p>
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		<title>5 tips to help you save on health care</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>By AMY HAMILTON</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Know before you go</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>By AMY HAMILTON</em></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Know before you go</strong></p>
<p>It’s not enough to ask if a health care agency takes your health insurance. Your health care professional should be contracted with your insurance network. If you’re operating under a Preferred Provider Organization, or PPO, using a health care professional not on the list is going to cost a lot more of out-of-pocket dollars.</p>
<p>“You need to be very careful and definitely when you call to talk to a doctor ask if they are contracted with your insurance,” said Becky Weaver, office manager of Grand Junction dentist Scott N. Vandusen.</p>
<p>In general, Weaver said, clients are learning to check online or call their insurance companies before scheduling appointments.</p>
<p>However, health care professionals can move in and out of networks. If a health care provider moves out of your network, you’ll need to change medical providers or face paying more for the same services, Weaver said.</p>
<p>“People couldn’t understand why they kept having to pay so much even though they were insured,” she said about the misconception.</p>
<p><strong>Save ER for emergencies</strong></p>
<p>You should always go to a hospital’s emergency room during life-threatening situations; for example, if you believe you’re having a heart attack, experiencing a loss of consciousness, losing large amounts of blood, having seizures or convulsions, or experiencing numbness and paralysis, among numerous other serious conditions. However, not all afflictions require an emergency room visit, which can result in bills that are estimated to cost at least three times that of a primary care doctor’s visit.</p>
<p>“Sometimes you do need to go to the emergency room. In many instances, reasons for you to go to the emergency room could be handled at primary care,” said Kayla Arnesen, marketing director for Rocky Mountain Health Plans. “We have after-hours clinics that are very accommodating.”</p>
<p>Four urgent care facilities listed in Mesa County are: Med-X Urgent Care, 1060 North Ave. Suite N; Docs on Call, 3150 N. 12th St.; Family Health West Urgent Care-After Hours, 551 Kokopelli Blvd., Suite G, Fruita; and UCC of Montrose and Grand Junction, 517 N. First St.</p>
<p>Arnesen said it’s always a good idea to call your primary care doctor first unless your condition is so severe you cannot call.</p>
<p>Pediatricians, for example, typically have someone on call who can answer questions and potentially could save a costly trip to the emergency room. Arnesen called her pediatrician at 2 a.m. for advice when her child had a fever. She was advised to buy an over-the-counter drug.</p>
<p>“A $4 bottle of Benadryl solved the problem,” she said.</p>
<p><strong>Focus on prevention</strong></p>
<p>Many health care policies offer free or reduced-cost preventive services such immunizations, dental cleanings, eye exams and routine screenings such as prostate exams, mammograms, Pap smears, physicals and services for children. But don’t forget periodic screens for blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol, as well as testing for colon cancer and HIV.</p>
<p>However, if symptoms arise, it’s best not to try to ride out an illness in the hopes it will disappear, according to Dr. Dale Kliner of the Colorado Urgent Care Association. Waiting to seek treatment can sometimes result in worsening conditions that may require further medical care.</p>
<p>“More patients are being diagnosed with pneumonia after suffering minor conditions such as a cough, indicating that some patients are waiting to seek treatment, when their best interest is to act immediately,” Kliner said in a news release.</p>
<p><strong>Go generic</strong></p>
<p>The first question to ask your doctor after being prescribed a drug is whether it’s available in a generic form.</p>
<p>For customers of Rocky Mountain Health Plans, which make up 60 percent of Mesa County residents, getting a generic prescription can be a cost savings of 50 percent to 80 percent off name-brand drugs, said Kayla Arnesen, marketing director for the insurance company. Arnesen advised that patients first ask their physicians to prescribe a generic form of a drug, which may be easier than attempting to buy a prescription in its generic form once you get to the pharmacy.</p>
<p>“It’s a common misconception,” she said. “If generic drugs are available, they are just as safe as the brand name.”</p>
<p><strong>Check your bills</strong></p>
<p>Any number of mistakes on your medical billing could change the amount paid by your insurer or cause an insurer to reject the claim.</p>
<p>Be sure to check bills carefully for items such as correct account numbers, services administered and that the services were billed to the correct insurance company. Study your benefits booklet to be certain of your coverage.</p>
<p>If you locate a billing mistake, send a certified letter to your insurer and follow up in few weeks to check if it was corrected.</p>
<p>Don’t hesitate to call your doctor or insurance company if you have questions on a bill.</p>
<p>If your insurance company won’t pay for a service you feel is necessary, dispute it.</p>
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		<title>Spring Hill collects more on medical bills than county</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal">By TONY HOLT</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">SPRING HILL &#8211; The Spring Hill fire district has collected at least 90 percent of its medical billing nearly every year since 2003 &#8211; a double-digit improvement compared to the county&#8217;s fire and rescue services.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Hernando Today</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">SPRING HILL &#8211; The Spring Hill fire district has collected at least 90 percent of its medical billing nearly every year since 2003 &#8211; a double-digit improvement compared to the county&#8217;s fire and rescue services.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">For the five annual billing cycles beginning September 2003 and ending September 2008, Spring Hill Fire Rescue collected 90 to 91 percent of its net charges for patients who were transported and-or treated.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">On average, the district failed to collect less than $208,500 per year since September 2003, according to records obtained by Hernando Today.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&#8220;That&#8217;s not too bad. That&#8217;s actually a pretty good number,&#8221; said Rajeev Rajagopal, co-owner of Managed Outsource Solutions out of Tulsa, Okla. &#8220;Whenever you&#8217;re dealing with ambulance calls, you have a lot of patients who may not have enough money for medical bills. That definitely falls into play.&#8221;</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">A perfect score is impossible because sometimes the patients are deceased by the time the billing process is filed, said Spring Hill Fire Chief Mike Rampino.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy about it,&#8221; the chief said about the numbers from the past six years. &#8220;It&#8217;s something to be proud of. We&#8217;re doing the best we can with what we have, and I&#8217;m proud of what they do.&#8221;</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Hernando County Fire Rescue&#8217;s numbers also are considered better than average. For the billing cycle from April 1, 2007, to March 31, 2008, the department collected 80 percent of what it charged. During the same period the following year, the county collected 74 percent, but that number is likely to increase as some patients complete their payment plans, said Hernando County Fire Chief Mike Nickerson.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&#8220;Our net collection rate of 75 to 80 percent is consistent with, or higher than, the regional average and is an improvement from the average 70 percent collection rate by our previous billing company, dating back to 2006 and prior,&#8221; Nickerson said.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">During his presentation with county commissioners last year about medical billing, board members said the county&#8217;s collection rate was slightly better than the local hospitals, which were at 75 percent.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The district&#8217;s annual average of $208,500 worth of uncollected bills is still too high for Fire Commissioner Rob Giammarco.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&#8220;If we have money that&#8217;s outstanding, we need to get it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We have to cover all the bases &#8230; We need to do better, especially in these tough fiscal times.&#8221;</span></p>
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		<title>With doctors’ workloads increasing, medical billing becomes growth industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>By Jeff Brooks, Special to Ocala Business Journal</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">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.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><!-- /GRAY BOX ARTICLE CONTENT-->“The hardest part of being a doctor is getting paid,” said Betsy Diago, owner of Ocala-based medical billing company The Claims Doctor Inc.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Health care is America’s fastest growing industry and currently accounts for 16.7 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product. In Florida, health care is a $100-plus billion industry with more than 56,000 licensed physicians statewide. With 78 million baby boomers approaching retirement age and needing increased medical care, doctors will be overloaded with patients, leaving little time to deal with insurance companies, HMOs and billing matters.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">That’s one reason why more and more physicians are turning to companies like Diago’s.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">“Billing is a full-time business and in many offices the doctors are trying to use somebody to do their billing who also have other duties,” said Diago, who started her business 14 years ago in Tampa before relocating to Ocala. “That’s very difficult for someone to do. It’s an extremely demanding part of a practice.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Shirley Fernandez, owner of Dimond Billing Service, has been involved in medical billing since 1992. Her business is “booming” because with the current economy doctors are able to cut costs by outsourcing their billing.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">“If the doctor doesn’t want to have a staff at the office, if they don’t have the space or don’t want to pay extra staff, they can get a contract for a fee or a percentage,” Fernandez said. “It gives them more time with patients. There’s less people calling into the office getting people distracted with the billing end. They focus on taking care of the patients and don’t have to deal with patients complaining about bills.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Cyndee Weston, executive director of the American Medical Billing Association, has been seeing steady industry growth since she started the organization 11 years ago. Three years ago she had about 900 members. Today, that number tops 1,200 members.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">“There’s always going to be sick people so there’s always going to be a need for claims to be filed,” Weston said. “Every other industry embraces outsourcing the services they’re not good at. Health care providers have been slower to embrace the outsourcing of their billing, but with the downturned economy they’re trying to save money just like everybody else. Billing is costly, especially when claims aren’t paid the first time.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Dr. Karl Altenburger, a retired Ocala physician and immediate past president of the Florida Medical Association, said physicians are always looking for ways to be more efficient on the business side of the practice, which is one reason the FMA fought for assignment of benefits legislation requiring insurance companies to send payment to physicians rather than patients.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">“Insurance companies are always trying to intimidate the doctors,” Altenburger said. “They don’t want to honor an agreement between a patient and a doctor when the patient freely gives assignment to the doctor so they’ll send a check to the patient and some turn it over to the doctor and some don’t. Then you have a collection issue and that takes time, adding to the cost of running your business. You don’t want to do that. You’d rather be spending those resources providing better services.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Ronald Renuart, an osteopathic physician and first-term member of the Florida House who sits on the Florida House Health Care Services Policy Committee, said the Legislature heard the FMA’s concerns and responded. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">“One of the things we did accomplish for physicians was to change the rule on the assignment of benefits,” Renuart said. “Now, if a patient requests his insurance company assign benefits to the doctor, the insurance company will be required to pay the benefits wherever the patient decides.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Renuart said the current Legislature is “very physician friendly” and would look favorably at any new ideas that would help decrease the burden on physicians to make collections. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">“Right now, we’re coming up with ideas for bills for the 2010 session, but I haven’t heard of any new bills being filed to that effect,” Renuart said.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">In his practice, Renuart is part of a large group of partners who pay a management fee, covering their billing and collections.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">“It takes some of the headache away, but it is costly,” Renuart said. “By having a large group of doctors it keeps our expenses lower. Traditionally, when you left the doctor’s office you’d pay the bill. That’s kind of gone by the wayside because insurance companies pay certain percentages and it’s getting so complicated patients don’t know when they leave how much they owe.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Folks at the Florida Agency of Health Care Administration understand how confusing and complex billing statements impact physicians and they’ve instituted a proactive, agency-wide program called AHCA-cellerate in an effort to reduce the amount of paperwork and administrative burdens the state places on physicians by utilizing an electronic health records system. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">“There is electronic billing available to every physician in Florida,” said Christopher Sullivan, administrator of the office of health information technology for AHCA. “We are working with it on a contract to deliver Medicaid claims data to physicians. It’s a way physicians can get a history on a patient before a patient comes in as well as a medication history. That informs the physician of previous billing and previous procedures which would make a difference, we hope, in the quality of care a physician give a patient.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Another idea being pushed is a health records system, which would be located in the physician’s office and would allow the physician to computerize all of his or her procedure codes.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">“When you have a procedure, they put it in a laptop and it gets collated by the central server,” Sullivan said. “It not only assembles all the billing it determines the most appropriate procedures to bill for. Then it rolls it into a bill the physician can submit. It makes it easier to bill and maximize his work.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Currently, Sullivan said, 35 percent of Florida physicians have electronic health records systems. Under the economic stimulus bill, physicians who see a lot of Medicaid patients will receive up to $25,000 to purchase a system and hospitals get a 100 percent reimbursement. They’ll also receive incentive payments to use the system.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">“It will cut a lot of staff time,” Sullivan said. “It translates into lower health care costs and better health care.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">According to Robert Mills, a spokesperson for the American Medical Association, there is a great deal of non-standarized practices in medical billing and some health care plans are taking action so payment policies are more transparent. One thing being discussed is real-time claims, in which patients swipe cards and the physician can tell them up front what their payment obligations are and they can pay the bill before leaving the office.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Tom Menichino, chief executive officer of Family Doctors of Belleview, recently started using a similar system.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">“We signed up with a company that allows us to do away with the actual credit card machine,” Menichino said. “Now, it’s all done at the computer where the checkout person is working. When the patient is ready to check out, we can get online and it will tell us this patient is a co-pay patient that owes us $25.00 or the patient has a deductible and they haven’t met their deductible. More importantly, it a patient has difficulty paying the whole account it will set up a schedule on how to debit their account.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Menichino said because of their size, they do most billing in-house because they are familiar with the accounts, which helps them stay on top of things. He said that might not be the case for smaller practices.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">“We can afford the overhead to do that as opposed to a solo doctor,” Menichino said. “They might not be in a position to spend resources to go after open accounts. Some small practices have outsourced to some of these billing companies. There are some pros to using some of these companies. The cons are you’re not in control so you have to work closely with those companies and be sure that they’re following your policies.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">As health care grows, many see medical billing keeping pace. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">“I think it will definitely continue to grow,” Diago said. “For the individual practitioner especially, it makes a lot more sense to be able to have a professional that you know knows what they’re doing.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">In an industry where certification isn’t required and self-regulation is the norm, there is one aspect creating apprehension for Diago and others in medical billing: government regulation.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">“As we see the changes that are going to be coming with regard to health care there will probably be more and more regulation.” Diago said. “I don’t agree with the proposals on the table right now, but I do recognize that one of the things the government seems to be intent on right now is more government control and regulation. I don’t think it’s necessarily a good thing. I think it’s important from a standpoint of doing things the right way, preventing fraud. As far as having more of the government in everybody’s pocket, it’s not a good thing.”</span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal">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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal">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 that are set up to do the medical billing for anyone who needs their services, no matter where they may be located. The electronic billing process is done completely over the computer using the internet so just because the actual people are across the world does not mean that it would not be almost the same thing as if they were in the next office.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This form of outsourcing has become very popular due to the fact that the costs for sending your billing out are a lot cheaper than implementing a software program within your facility and having to hire the staff to do the work. The companies that are doing this type of billing are also outsourcing themselves in order to make a profit because they do not charge a large amount from the medical facilities in the states. They get the work, the medical facilities do the billing and they also have their own clearinghouse in order to audit the claims.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This type of billing also has a process it has to go through in order to make sure that all of its aspects are HIPAA compliant. Just because medical facilities use this form of outsourcing format to bill their claims, does not mean that they are below the law of privacy. The medical facilities have to go through a set up and security process before the launch of their medical billing even begins. Once this process is complete, then the outsourcing firm will take over.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Services that the medical billing firms do for the medical facilities are creating claims, checking patient&#8217;s eligibility for the payment of insurance, transmitting electronic claims, following up on pending claims, patient billing, claims posting, and collection services along with other services that are involved in the billing process.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal">In today&#8217;s competitive economy outsourcing medical billing seems to be a great option for the health care companies. Now the question arises as where </p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">In today&#8217;s competitive economy outsourcing medical billing seems to be a great option for the health care companies. Now the question arises as where </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">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 to India. </span></p>
<h4><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Why outsource medical billing to India</span></h4>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Availability of advanced infrastructure </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Availability of cheap and efficient human resources </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Availability of quality certified firms </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Good communication and internet facilities </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Proved track record </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Data Confidential, retention, destruction protocols </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Availability of service level agreements </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Stable government </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Continuously improving economy </span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">These are the reasons that make India stand apart from the rest as far as medical billing outsourcing is concerned. India job outsourcing market is also blooming in the field of help desk and IT services.</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 14:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal">What are the benefits to outsourcing your medical billing to a medical billing firm?</p>
<p>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.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">What are the benefits to outsourcing your medical billing to a medical billing firm?</span></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>By hiring a medical billing outsourcing firm, you are able to expedite income generation. Your reimbursement claims can be paid within 7-14 days. Paper claims are processed electronically to check for errors, and a bigger percentage of claims will be paid.</p>
<p>By hiring a medical billing outsourcing firm, you eliminate non-productive office hours. For the medical billing, outsourcing firm handles the non-core activities like billing and coding functions.</p>
<p>Some basic services a medical billing outsourcing firm does:<br />
A medical billing outsourcing firm helps you integrate patient accounting functions and help with the pay follow up services. They will even facilitate third-party and bad debt follows up services.<br />
A medical billing outsourcing firm helps you maximize your cash revenue by handling the management and liquidation of your accounts receivables.<br />
A medical billing outsourcing firm will take over the responsibility of interacting with your patients.</p>
<p>Therefore, it makes a great deal of sense to forge a strategic work relationship with a medical billing outsourcing firm. For this medical billing outsourcing firm is the one stop solution that will completely manage all the aspects associated with the medical billing reimbursement process</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 14:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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 [...]]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">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 (Human Resource Management) is the most compelling single reason why physicians and other medical service providers outsource their medical billing to a medical billing company that specializes in providing this service.</span></p>
<p>HRM problems come about from two areas, employee turnover and practice growth.</p>
<p>Reducing Employee Turnover with Medical Billing Outsourcing:</p>
<p>While your practice may be lucky by having people who have stayed with you through the years, the fact remains that they will, eventually, leave. Others are faced with an on-going turnover problem. In either event, once a medical billing specialist leaves, you are forced to fill the vacant spot right away or your cash-flow may be compromised. That often means hiring someone with lesser …or worse yet very little medical billing experience. Inexperienced medical billing specialist make errors … errors that can cost your practice money or seriously delay your getting paid in a timely manner. Also, who will take the time to train your new medical billing specialist? Will you spend your time doing this? Or will you pay someone else to do it? Is that a good use of your time? Even if you still have other medical billing specialists, their use in training will take away from their time normally spent in helping to get you paid in a timely manner. Medical billing outsourcing avoids these problems all together.</p>
<p>Many medical practices go through high turnover periods, while others find loyal people who dedicate many years to working for the same Physician. The human resource management cycle can be very difficult for a Physician to maintain. Once the medical billing specialist leaves, the Physician is left with no other option and is usually forced to hire another medical billing specialist who has very little experience. Ask yourself this question, when would you be the most worried; when your receptionist quits or when your medical billing specialist leaves? Do you really have the time to find a medical billing specialist who is experienced and reliable and can do the right job with the amount of attention your medical billing deserves? Medical billing outsourcing is a better solution.</p>
<p>Growing a Professional Practice:</p>
<p>As your business grows, your revenues will grow and so will the medical billing and coding workload. However, your employee costs are fixed costs, while your billings and receivables are not fixed. So, when your business has grown to the point where the workload overtaxes the current medical billing personnel, you will need to add another medical billing specialist … maybe more. That is an abrupt increase in fixed costs, because now you are &#8211; in effect &#8211; overstaffed, as the volume of the workload has not as yet caught up to your newly-expanded billing capacity.</p>
<p>Use medical billing outsourcing to change your medical billing expenses from a fixed cost to a variable cost and improve your ability to manage your business.</p>
<p>When you choose medical billing outsourcing, your costs vary directly with your medical billings. If your medical billings drop, your costs drop. If your medical billings go up, your costs do not rise disproportionately. This simple fact can make your business planning easier.</p>
<p>Less Paperwork and Lower Employee Costs With Medical Billing Outsourcing</p>
<p>If you do your medical billing internally, salary is typically only about 70-75% of your employee costs when you figure in payroll taxes, FICA and insurance. Not to mention that added paperwork cost of administering them. Plus, when your medical billing specialists are sick or on vacation, you’re still paying them for not working. When you outsource your billing by taking advantage of our professional medical billing specialists, the overhead and paperwork is ours, not yours.</p>
<p>• Medical Billing Specialist’s Employee salary</p>
<p>• Medical Billing Specialist’s Employee benefits</p>
<p>o Worker’s compensation</p>
<p>o FICA</p>
<p>o Healthcare insurance</p>
<p>o Vacation, sick leave, etc.</p>
<p>o Performance bonus</p>
<p>• Computer hardware purchase &amp; maintenance</p>
<p>• Software purchase &amp; renewal</p>
<p>• Clearinghouse fees</p>
<p>• Postage</p>
<p>• Stationery</p>
<p>• Physical (Office) Space</p>
<p>• Training and re-training</p>
<p>• Recruitment costs</p>
<p>• YOUR time</p>
<p>• YOUR opportunity costs</p>
<p>Reduce Errors and Receive Revenue Faster With Medical Billing Outsourcing:</p>
<p>Medical Insurers are always looking for ways to slow down paying you. It’s how they manage their cash flow. Anything that is miscoded can cause your bill to be rejected or its payment delayed significantly. When you outsource your medical billing to our medical billing specialists, you’ll not only be getting professional medical billing services, you’ll be benefiting from a degree of accuracy that would be difficult to match internally. At Medical Billing, each submission is reviewed by a supervisor to help ensure accuracy. That “extra level of eyes” is a luxury impractical with in-house medical billing.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Above article published on http://mindmasterclass.com/medical-billing-outsourcing-versus-in-house </span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal">By Damian Sofsian</p>
<p>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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">By Damian Sofsian</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">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 them with regular financial reports. This is called medical billing outsourcing. It has become a thriving business in the modern age.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Very often, it is impossible to post in-house staffs for preparing medical billing, because they may not have in-depth knowledge and time to handle claims. So, most healthcare providers resort to medical billing outsourcing which involve the hiring of billing professionals. They act as consultants for doctors, and assist them in handling all medical billing needs, coding practices, and preparation of fee structure. A good outsourcing project is as a sure method of maximizing the average earning of a doctor than employing an in-house staff. The earlier doctor consultant system has been replaced by online medical billing outsourcing today.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Medical billing outsourcing assists doctors in saving money through payroll generation, equipment reduction, elimination of postage, and with software support. Outsourcing to a professional billing company frees you from administration problems. In the USA, a number of leading medical billing outsourcing companies offer assistance to your medical billing needs. These companies are equipped with a network of medical billing outsourcing experts and a number of medical billing tools on the Internet. The host company serves you with free database, clearinghouse set up and practice, and other online benefits.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Medical Billing provides detailed information on Medical Billing, Medical Billing Software, Medical Billing Services, Medical Billing Jobs and more. Medical Billing is affiliated with Medical Coding Certification.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Above article published on http://ezinearticles.com/?Medical-Billing-Outsourcing&amp;id=353529 </span></p>
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