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The new year is a great time to reevaluate what’s working in your eye care practice—and where there are untapped opportunities for growth. Here are several ideas to motivate and inspire your eye care staff.
Read MoreNeed to evaluate the efficiency of outsourcing eye care billing? Here’s how you calculate your ROI to ensure your investment is a positive one.
Read MoreHow can you keep the claim denial rate below 5% and boost unhealthy cash flow? Let’s look at common claim denial management struggles, and how proactive solutions can improve your bottom line.
Read MoreReady to overcome revenue cycle management (RCM) obstacles? Learn how this office manager used a collaborative optometry billing approach to improve her bottom line in three months.
Read MoreReducing accounts receivable and staff expenses sound appealing? Let’s explore the advantages you can experience with an improved optometry billing process.
Read MoreStruggling with increasing Medicare Advantage claim denials? Improve the financial health of your eye care practice by following these billing requirement tips.
Read MoreIt’s never too early to start planning for the 2019 ICD-10-CM (diagnosis) eye-specific code changes that go into effect on October 1, 2018. Avoid delays in claims processing or denied claims by downloading this free guide.
Read MoreIn many optometry offices, doctors and staff members are multitasking with patient care and revenue cycle management. Drs. Julie and Jay Honda recognized how a more efficient billing process could positively impact their practice and their bottom line. This is how they fixed their process.
Read MoreDoes your eye care practice have an unhealthy cash flow and high accounts receivable (AR)? There are many ways you can reduce your AR. Let’s look at common challenges, solutions, and marketing strategies that will help your practice reduce the number of days your AR goes unpaid and sits in the Aging bucket.
Read MoreNoticing more eye care billing rejections appearing in your inbox? Is your claim rejection percentage rate increasing? Let's examine six common eye care billing rejections and how a billing solution like Fast Pay Health can help you overcome them.
Read MoreDo you wonder where your money is in your optometry and ophthalmology practice? With more patients coming in with insurance, it’s easy for money to get lost. On average, 25% of lost practice revenue comes from poor medical billing and revenue cycle management (RCM). 2018 may be the year for you to move your in-house billing to an end-to-end revenue cycle management service.
Read MoreFor more than ten years, managing revenue cycle management (RCM) has been a challenging and often frustrating task for Princeton Optometry in Princeton, NJ. Constant regulatory and coding changes, declining reimbursements, keeping up with staff training, reducing administrative costs, and getting Medicare to pay claims, are key reasons why Princeton Optometry decided it was time to outsource their insurance billing, accounts receivable/aging claims cleanup, and practice management payment postings.
Read MoreIn an era of declining reimbursements, high-deductible health plans, and constant industry challenges, profit margins are tighter than ever for most medical practices. Medical providers should be able to focus on patient care—instead of paperwork and payments. That’s why having end-to-end revenue cycle management (RCM) processes in place are important to running a successful practice, so your revenue doesn’t slip through the cracks.
Read MoreThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) will be making ICD-10-CM code changes to 728 diagnosis codes that become effective October 1, 2017. This month, CMS released the 360 new codes, 226 revised codes and 142 deleted codes for patient encounters occurring from October 1, 2017 forward. Claims that have a service date of September 30, 2017, or earlier, must use the 2017 codes.
Read MoreResearching unpaid or denied claims is a time-consuming and frustrating process. On average, more than 25% of lost practice revenue comes from poor medical billing and revenue cycle management practices. According to the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), the average cost of reworking a claim is $25.
Read MoreIt might be surprising, but Medicaid in most states only covers repairing or replacing glasses for patients 20 and under. If an adult aged 21 or older comes in needing repairs, they must pay out of pocket if they have no other insurance. We sometimes see offices try billing Medicaid for replacement glasses on older patients, only to get a denial and ask us what to do. Read on for more.
Read MoreICD-10 has been in use since October 1, 2015, but thanks to a code freeze put in place to allow providers time to adjust to the new format, the majority of codes had been set since 2011. That all changed last fall when the first update to ICD-10 was released on October 1, 2016. Read on to see what you should be doing.
Read MoreAre you getting your money’s worth with your in-house billers or billing service for your eye care practice? Choosing the best medical billing and end-to-end revenue cycle management (RCM) service is more than just finding someone to process claims. If you are considering outsourcing your medical billing service and are still on the fence about making the leap, here are eight quick reasons to help you decide.
Read MoreToday, nearly a third of Medicare enrollees are covered by a Medicare Advantage plan—up from roughly a quarter in 2010. Depending on your state or even your city, the number of Medicare patients enrolled in an Advantage plan can vary, from about 55% in Minnesota down to 1% in Alaska. But many providers often don’t understand how these plans work in relation to conventional Medicare.
Read MoreTo help offices prepare for MACRA and MIPs, the new payment system for Medicare Eligible Clinicians (ECs), we are sharing this guest blog from Nitin Rai, CEO of First Insight. Check out these quick facts, FAQs and industry resources to help guide you through the complicated process.
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