COVID-19 Update – Ambulatory Surgery Centers and CMS

Ambulatory Surgical Centre Billing

In a drive to assist the hospitals, practices, and physicians to grapple the pandemic sequel, The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has been introducing various initiatives and waivers since the onset of Covid-19 viral attack. Earlier on March 30, 2020, an initiative called “Hospitals without walls” was announced by CMS as an effort to address the surging number of Covid-19 positive cases. According to this program, Ambulatory Surgery Center’s (ASC) roles have been expanded to assist hospitals by contracting or leasing their space to the local healthcare systems or hospitals. However, the contract and agreement need to abide and be consistent with the state regulatory law and licensing.

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How to Optimize Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management?

Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management

Revenue Cycle Management

Revenue Cycle Management is one of the major processes in medical billing. RCM process is the primed for revenue improvement. RCM is the process of collecting and managing the business revenue from payers based on the services rendered. Successful revenue cycle management is required to keep up the financial viability. Let’s discuss the revenue cycle management optimization.

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Why Outsourcing Insurance Eligibility Verification Services Is A Good Choice?

Insurance Eligibility Verification

Insurance Eligibility Verification is the process of verifying the patient’s insurance coverage details and its authenticity with the Insurance Company. Insurance Eligibility Verification should be done prior to the patient’s appointment with the physician to ensure the service provided will be reimbursed. This process is crucial to avoid claims rejections and must be done as the first step to determine the service charges and patient’s responsibility also referred to as the patient’s share, and get any prior authorization if required.

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How To Avoid And Manage The Medical Claim Denials?

Denial Management

Medical billing is one of the major factors to decide the financial success rate of the practice, and claim denials affect the cash flow of the practice. Every new claim denials lead to revenue leaks. That’s why denials look like a painful financial drain on practices. For better claims denial management, you have to identify the denials and reasons of the denials. Avoiding and reducing the claims denials will improve the cash flow. Let’s discuss the claims denial management and strategies to avoid and manage the claim denials.

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How Healthcare Trends Impact The Healthcare Revenue Cycle?

Healthcare Revenue Cycle

Healthcare revenue cycles are continually searching for revenue integrity solutions. Healthcare pricing transparencies, the rapid development of artificial intelligence, automation process, electronic claims processing, revenue cycle outsourcing, expanding consistently in the flow of data among Payers and Providers are few of the trends which are shaping up the healthcare industry. Let’s us discuss those trends in concise

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How to Improve Billing Experience for Providers during Covid-19?

Covid-19

With the outbreak and increased positive cases of the novel coronavirus across the nation, healthcare providers are working continuously servicing the patients. At this critical time of increased demand for their services, it is possible for the billing process to take a back seat which may, in turn, affect the revenue flow affecting the business. Healthcare providers are already struggling in the frontline treating patients. And the other area of concern aroused during this pandemic attack is running the medical billing process smoothly and keeping the healthcare revenue cycle flow intact.

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How Digital Health Technology Is Revolutionizing Healthcare

Digital Health Technology

Digital health is a trending topic in the healthcare industry because of how it is gradually reshaping developed health systems all over the world. Digital health has become an impacting factor in healthcare. Nowadays, to communicate with doctors, patients use digital networks that help them to enjoy the healthcare experience benefits. Digital health provides access to manage health data. With the help of digital health, old medical records can be tracked well. Digital health solutions improve practice efficiency and reduce costs. Let us discuss briefly how digital health is revolutionizing healthcare.

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Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Billing

Artificial intelligence in medical billing

For many, imagining the future of the healthcare field is a difficult thing in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). There’s a lot of thought about artificial intelligence (AI) impact on the healthcare industry. Generally, AI helps healthcare providers to streamline their medical practice. AI tools powered by machine learning help in managing and analyzing the patient data, improve healthcare across the board. Let’s discuss how this can technology help you to improve the revenue cycle and impact on medical billing and coding.

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