Revolutionizing Healthcare with Telehealth: The Future of Medical Consultations
Telehealth has continued to be an important part of healthcare delivery in April 2023. Here’s an updated version of the blog post on Telehealth: Telehealth, also known as telemedicine, has become an increasingly important part of healthcare delivery over the past few years. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated its adoption, and it has since become a…
New CPT Codes to Be Aware of For 2021
Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes have been around since 1966, continue to be set by the specialized panel with the American Medical Association, and they aren’t going anywhere. Each year, as advancements and changes are made in the medical industry, new and revised codes are pushed out to medical billing teams. If you’re already in…
3 Tips for Revving up Productivity
Medical billers do it all. They are the nucleus of a healthcare organization, constantly working and keeping things flowing through the revenue cycle. The goal of any medical biller is to be as efficient as possible to make sure the money keeps moving and organizations and patients are content. Medical billers are jack-of-all-trades, and along…
The What, Why and How of Leadership
What is leadership? An age-old question exhaustively studied by scholars and practitioners alike throughout centuries, from the greatest conqueror of all time Alexander the Great to the father of modern leadership Warren Bennis. Nowadays, it might be easier to say what leadership is not than to say what leadership is. Ensuring your company always hits…
Does Work From Home Equal Lower Productivity?
When considering what productivity actually is or by looking at its actual definition, there are two things that spring to mind in quick succession. First, the efficiency of any business can be measured by the rate of output per unit of input, and second, the defining factor of the input is people. Since the pandemic…
4D Global Named 1st for Medical Billing & 6th for BPO!
4D Global Named 1st for Medical Billing & 6th for BPO! In their annual report of the highest performing B2B companies in the world, Clutch has identified the best of the best in everything from branding agencies to call centers. In fact, their team has named us first and sixth in the world for…
Study Claims CMS Has Higher Penalties For Readmissions Than For Mortality
An analysis conducted on publicly available hospital data revealed that the financial penalties for US hospitals in the year 2014 would have been considerably changed, if the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services had equally weighted mortality and 30-day readmissions. Researchers also pointed out that the financial penalties for readmissions under CMS are approximately 10…
MACRA Data Reporting Requirements Might Nag Small Vendors
The final MACRA rule aims to reform Medicare payment model and offer more flexibility to physicians by simplifying some difficult data reporting requirements. However, some experts argue that the same rule might be nagging for small heath IT vendors, who are experiencing issues with upgrading their existing technology to be more relevant, patient-friendly, and specialty-specific.…
ACA Risk Adjustment Program Strongly Opposed By Republicans
The Republicans have been focusing on the way Obama Administration is repaying the insurers who are participating in Federal health insurance exchange under risk adjustment programs established by ACA. The Affordable Care Act has included three risk adjustment programs aimed at stabilizing exchanges for the first years as insurers learned on pricing their products. The…
Reviewing Meaningful Use Transition Might Help To Succeed In MIPS
According to the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), policymakers must review the earlier transition from Meaningful Use Stage 1 to Stage 2, while transitioning from MU Stage 2 to Advancing Care Information. This is to ensure consistent clinical quality of healthcare during the transition. The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association published a recent…
