Thank you to everyone who attended our March 24 webinar, ICD-10 and 5010 – Understanding the Challenge at Hand. In this one hour event, industry expert, Kim Reid, CPC, approved PMCC instructor for the American Academy of Professional Coders and Northeast Regional Director for AAPC Physician Services, highlighted the distinctions between 5010 and ICD-10; potential challenges practices would face during both transitions; and key steps practices should be taking right now to prepare.

Click here to download this free webinar to learn more about the ICD-10 and 5010 changes and how they will impact your practice.

Earn 1.0 Continuing Education Unit (CEU) from the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) by viewing this webinar.

Every practice manager needs to fully understand how analyzing data related to the billing process can improve the management and bottom line of a practice. In a one hour webinar, Knowledge is Power – Using Data to Improve Your Revenue Cycle, Bryan Koch, VP of Strategic Services focuses on how to analyze this data and how to use it to improve your practice.

During the event, Bryan discusses:
• What business intelligence is, and why it is important to the health of your practice.
• How business intelligence can improve all aspects of the revenue cycle.
• What key performance indicators you should be tracking.
• How the data that you’re capturing today can be used to prepare your practice for future healthcare reforms, initiatives and regulations.
• How business intelligence can improve the performance of you and your staff.

To learn more about using business data to improve your revenue cycle, download the webinar here.

The ever-growing complexity of federal regulations and insurance plan rules continues to wreak havoc with the physician revenue cycle. Consider the effect on your practice of expanding global periods, bundling edits, Local Coverage Determinations (LCDs) and non-covered procedure lists.

Even the savviest medical billing staff must fine-tune the appeals process to prevent it from becoming a lengthy battle. Knowing how to write an effective appeal letter can greatly enhance your practice’s chance of getting paid for initially-denied or underpaid claims. Read More ›

We now have our first look at the official shape “meaningful use” of electronic health record (EHR) technology will likely take – in the near future, at least. As many had anticipated, one of the principal underlying themes is interoperability.

The long-anticipated proposed rule defining meaningful use finally was released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Dec. 30. On the same day, we also received the interim final rule setting initial EHR technology standards, implementation specifications and certification criteria from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).

You can view both rules in the Jan. 13, 2010, Federal Register at http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fedreg/a100113c.html. Read More ›