Depending on your practice, eligibility can mean many different things to many different specialties. However, the key to a strong revenue cycle and patient collections strategy begins with eligibility verification. Basic Eligibility What is basic eligibility? This is checking with the insurance company ahead of the patient’s appointment to make sure they still have an […]
Benefit Eligibility & Verification Read More »
“It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” and “Tis the Season to be Jolly” are phrases we hear in movies, carols and conversations, but the holidays are also a time when stress levels, pressure, depression or conflict are at an all-time high. We can feel overwhelmed by the expectations and even become depressed during
‘Tis the Season to Be Jolly Read More »
Denials are a fact of life for every medical practice. From demographic errors to medical necessity, denials come in easy to fix solutions and time-consuming levels of appeal. A recent article from the Healthcare Finance News website (http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/denials-still-major-risk-revenue-cycle-departments-despite-build-out) noted that hospitals in particular “wrote off as uncollectable 90% more denials than 6 years ago.” The
Denials: The Growing Concern Read More »
