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		<title>The Value of Collectively Understanding Remark/Reason Codes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What this chart illustrates: Denied claims are a daily norm. We fix them within our practice management/billing systems, make notes and then move on to the next round of denials/correspondence. Most practice management systems today are not designed to review collective data from a historical viewpoint. Therefore, we typically treat each denial as a single [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dailypracticeblog.com/2010/09/the-value-of-collectively-understanding-remarkreason-codes/</link>
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		<title>Webinar Recording Now Available: 5010 – Opportunity or Chaos?  Strategies to Survive the Transition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to everyone who attended our August 24th webinar, 5010 – Opportunity or Chaos? Strategies to Survive the Transition. In this one hour event, Ken Bradley, Vice President of Strategic Planning at Navicure, and Bryan Koch, Vice President of Strategic Services at Navicure, discussed what your practice needs to do in order to prepare [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dailypracticeblog.com/2010/08/webinar-recording-now-available-5010-%e2%80%93-opportunity-or-chaos-strategies-to-survive-the-transition/</link>
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		<title>Don’t Leave Money on the Table: Secondary Claims</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How many secondary claims is your practice writing off? The classic response to this question is a quick shoulder shrug, followed by the return query, “Why does it matter?” After all, the value of secondary claims is usually just a fraction of that associated with primary claims. Most practices believe it costs more in resources [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dailypracticeblog.com/2010/08/don%e2%80%99t-leave-money-on-the-table-secondary-claims/</link>
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		<title>Keeping Cash Flow Healthy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just as people need blood circulating through their veins, so physician practices need revenue flowing through their bank accounts. That requires many things: Confirming that patients are covered for the care providers deliver, submitting accurate claims that trigger prompt payment, posting payments quickly so resources are immediately available, ensuring no cash is left on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dailypracticeblog.com/2010/08/keeping-cash-flow-healthy/</link>
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		<title>Answers to a Few Common Coding and Billing Questions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These days, you just can’t overemphasize how important it is to make sure every clinician is working at the top of his or her license. It simply isn’t cost-effective to have registered nurses, for instance, performing clerical duties. Lots of practices seem to have this in mind when they ask about billing for their nurse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dailypracticeblog.com/2010/08/answers-to-a-few-common-coding-and-billing-questions/</link>
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		<title>Using Benchmarks Correctly: Billing Staff to Provider Ratio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few months, I’ve posted some tips that I hope make it easier for you to correctly calculate a few key practice benchmarks (days in accounts receivable, net collections percentage , and accounts receivable greater than 90 days old ). There is one more benchmark, though, that I suspect is under-examined by many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dailypracticeblog.com/2010/07/using-benchmarks-correctly-billing-staff-to-provider-ratio/</link>
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		<title>Webinar: 5010 – Opportunity or Chaos?  Strategies to Survive the Transition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new HIPAA electronic standard, 5010, update is something that will impact all healthcare entities, including physician practices, and as such, must be fully understood. The bottom line is this: if a practice&#8217;s HIT partners cannot handle 5010 transactions on January 1, 2012, its claims will be rejected by insurance carriers. Join us on Tuesday, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dailypracticeblog.com/2010/07/webinar-5010-%e2%80%93-opportunity-or-chaos-strategies-to-survive-the-transition/</link>
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		<title>Using Benchmarks Correctly: A/R&gt;90 Days</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago I posted some strategies you can use to make sure you’re correctly calculating two of our industry’s most utilized benchmarks: days in accounts receivable (A/R) and net collections percentage. At the time, I briefly noted that it’s also important to check your A/R greater than 90 days old (A/R&#62;90) because it’s possible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dailypracticeblog.com/2010/07/using-benchmarks-correctly-ar90-days/</link>
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		<title>Evaluation &amp; Management Distribution – How Does Your Practice Stack Up?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What this graph illustrates: The most commonly billed Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes come from the Evaluation and Management (E&#38;M) section of the CPT manual. The graph below displays the distribution curves for the specialty of cardiology for the most utilized E&#38;M codes, those being for New Patients (99201-99205) and Established Patients (99211-99215). The information [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dailypracticeblog.com/2010/07/evaluation-management-distribution-%e2%80%93-how-does-your-practice-stack-up/</link>
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		<title>Evaluating an EHR? Use the Opportunity to Assess Your Overarching Technology Solution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The prospect of obtaining stimulus funding has, not surprisingly, created an environment of intense focus on Electronic Health Records (EHRs). While that’s OK, I see a distinct limitation in looking at EHRs, practice management systems (PMS) and other applications as isolated pieces of hardware/software. Instead, I think the current atmosphere provides many practices the opportunity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dailypracticeblog.com/2010/06/evaluating-an-ehr-use-the-opportunity-to-assess-your-overarching-technology-solution/</link>
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