We’ve put together a weekly payer update including changes at CMS related to Medicare & Medicaid credentialing, telehealth billing and policy changes with the commercial insurance companies.
02
Nov
Nov
How much does physician credentialing cost? How much is credentialing costing your company? We answer both of these questions in this article.
04
Mar
Mar
3 Ways to Assess Viability
Number 1: Which insurers are my targeted patient population using?
You have concluded that there is a need in your area, next you need to identify the top payers in the area that represent the patients you are targeting. Which payers represent the majority of the targeted patient population?
03
Dec
Dec
10 Things You Should Never Do When Starting a Practice. We’ve talked for years about what you should do so in this article we are going to cover some of the common mistakes made by new practices.
03
Dec
Dec
Starting a practice is an incredibly difficult process and recent panel closures have made it all the more challenging. Here we provide 4 ways to discover if panels are closed in your area.
02
Dec
Dec
Starting a medical practice is difficult but the ubiquitous panel closures makes this process even more challenging. Learn what you can do about it and if your practice concept is still viable in this climate.
03
Aug
Aug
As you will quickly learn if you’re starting a new practice or evaluating billing companies, there are dozens of billing/EHR companies out there that do credentialing/contracting as part of their billing package. As mentioned earlier in this article, we were one of those billing companies for nearly ten of the past 15 years, so we can speak from experience. To make this decision easier, we have put together a list of pros and cons as we see them.
12
Jul
Jul
There are always bugs that need fixing and thankfully, this usually occurs pretty quickly. We utilize PECOS for all of our group enrollments, reassignments and DME applications as I’m sure many of you do. This particular bug with PECOS’ latest release has proven to be especially problematic which is why we are posting about it.
06
May
May
There are very few things when starting a new practice that we would identify as “easy”, the only thing truly easy about a new medical practice, is how easily you can screw up and be working for a hospital or large group again. Our hope with this article is to review some “easy”, yet effective ways to mitigate your risk and increase your chances of real, long-term success.
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Oct
Oct
It’s unfortunate but true that most physicians spend more time picking out their waiting room furniture than they do deciding on their name. Here is some guidance when it comes to selecting the best name of your new medical practice.