Key Medicare Benefits for Men’s Health
For those providers servicing Medicare beneficiaries, Men’s Health Awareness Week is a good time for you to re-familiarize yourself with the wide range of covered preventive services.
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Men's Health Week
The week leading up to Father’s Day, June 10-16, is National Men’s Health Awareness Week. It is a time to focus on getting and/or keeping yourself or the man in your life healthy.
Appealing a Medicare Denial
If you have received a claim denial from your Medicare contractor you do have the right to submit an appeal. If you do not take assignment on the claim, your appeal rights can be limited.
How Does the American Taxpayer Relief Act Affect You?
MEDICARE PHYSICIAN PAYMENT UPDATE The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will continue to pay physicians at 2012 levels through 2013.
Medical Office Workflow Step 6: Accounts Receivables
If you followed the advice given in the previous articles, you have properly identified the patient benefits, obtained the necessary authorizations, and carefully produced clean claims.
Medical Office Workflow Step 5: Payment Posting
Once your charges have made it out the door, you should expect to see payer responses in as little as 5 days for electronic claims transactions and 3 weeks for paper claims.
Medical Office Workflow Step 4: Collecting Your Charges and Filing Claims
By properly registering your patient and verifying their benefits, you have laid the groundwork for correct claims reimbursement.
Medical Office Workflow Step 3: Obtaining Procedure Authorization
During your insurance verification process, you became aware that one or more of the services you will be either providing or ordering for your patient require an authorization.
Medical Office Workflow Step 2: Proper Insurance Verification
For successful claims processing and payment, it all starts with the proper verification of insurance coverage and benefits.
Medical Office Workflow Step 1: New Patient Check List
When scheduling a patient for their first visit to your practice, you should advise them of what they need to bring to help ensure a smooth registration process and to assist your physician in…
Observe National Women's Health Week
National Women’s Health Week is May 12-18 and is a weeklong health observance coordinated by the HHS Office on Women's Health.
How Do You Define Wellness?
The Miriam Webster Dictionary defines wellness as: “The quality or state of being in good health especially as an actively sought goal.” Take advantage of May as Family Wellness month, to make…
Allergy Immunotherapy Billing
Whoever wrote “April showers bring May flowers” held the key to the peak Allergy and Asthma season.
May 6th. Is Melanoma Monday
The **American Academy of Dermatology (AAD**) designates the first Monday in May as **Melanoma Monday**®. The AAD spearheads the effort to raise awareness of melanoma and other types of skin cancer.
Tips for Allergy Sufferers
See the following tips on allergy exposure and prevention. For more detailed information on Allergy and Asthma see the website for the **Asthma and Allergy Foundation on America (AAFA**/495/)).
New Patient Check List
When scheduling a patient for their first visit to your practice, you should advise them of what they need to bring to help ensure a smooth registration process and to assist your physician in…
Medicare Covers STD Screening
Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) are no longer conditions that are only discussed in back alley clinics.
Equal Healthcare for Minorities
This April, National Minority Health Month is supported by the Office of Minority Health and other agencies to raise awareness about health disparities that continue to affect racial and ethnic…
The Benefits of a Care Team Approach for Head and Neck Cancer Treatment
As part of Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week, I have reached out to South Florida Radiation Oncologist, Dr. James T. Parsons for some professional insight. Dr.
Alcohol Misuse Screening Covered by Medicare
Effective October 14, 2011, Medicare expanded its Preventive Services program to include steps to reduce alcohol misuse. See table below for reimbursement details.
Are you feeling STRESSED OUT?
With today being the day after “Tax Day”, many people are probably feeling the effects of the dreaded tax filing deadline.
3 Part Series: Medical Practice Vital Signs-Part 3
A Medical Practice is a unique business in many ways, but it is still a business and must be treated as such. Checking the health of your practice is similar to checking the health of your patients.
3 Part Series: Medical Practice Vital Signs-Part 2
A Medical Practice is a unique business in many ways, but it is still a business and must be treated as such. Checking the health of your practice is similar to checking the health of your patients.
3 Part Series: Medical Practice Vital Signs-Part 1
A Medical Practice is a unique business in many ways, but it is still a business and must be treated as such. Checking the health of your practice is similar to checking the health of your patients.