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HIPAA Claims Medical Billing Reporting: What Every Healthcare Practice Needs to Know

 Most healthcare practices consider HIPPA in terms of what they are not allowed to do: patient information sharing without consent, insecure storage of patient information, unencrypted communication. But few practices consider the reporting aspect of HIPAA compliance. It's here that many expensive errors silently creep up. Medical billing reporting is not a tedious procedure, says HIPAA. The infrastructure is what will make or break how your claims are processed, whether your revenue cycle is auditable, and whether your practice would essentially be in financial ruin if it faced a compliance investigation with little to no financial exposure. If it's done correctly, it will run in the background without you ever knowing. Make a mistake, and the repercussions are quick to manifest — denied claims, audit timers, civil penalties. This guide covers everything a practice administrator or billing manager needs to understand about HIPAA compliant billing reporting: what it requires, h...

Your AR Is Aging: The Case for Outsourcing Medical Billing

 Medical billing is not what you got into the field for. You started a practice to help people treat patients, not to deal with billing all day.. Medical billing is something that takes up a lot of time and energy from your team every week. They have to figure out why insurance companies say no to claims and then they have to appeal those decisions. They also have to stay on top of all the rules that insurance companies have. These rules are always changing. That is why a lot of healthcare providers are choosing to have someone else handle billing for them. The healthcare providers who make this decision to outsource billing are usually happy, with the choice they made to outsource medical billing. The Real Cost of Keeping Billing In-House Here is something that most practice managers do not think about until it is too late: doing the billing in the office is not really cheaper. You are paying a salary to the people who do the billing of paying a fee for the service.. When you thin...