Health Prime

APRIL 11, 2024

Medical practices and billing services constantly seek ways to enhance efficiency and financial performance. Two terms often come into play: “Revenue Optimization” and “Practice Optimization.” Revenue Optimization ensures the practice has done all the elements needed to capture revenue.

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Health Prime

JULY 18, 2024

Denial management is crucial in medical billing, ensuring healthcare providers receive rightful reimbursement for their services. However, navigating denial management can often be challenging for medical practices. According to an MGMA Stat Poll , 69% of healthcare leaders reported their organization’s denials have increased.

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Health Prime

JUNE 27, 2024

Providers encountering billing or payment issues can reach out to Change Healthcare or their Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) for support. Providers can visit the HPH Cyber Performance Goals website for detailed information on cybersecurity best practices.

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Health Prime

MAY 2, 2024

Learn about this in our blog 5 ways telehealth services can help address the mental health crisis. Also, developing and sharing engaging content through a blog or other content platform is crucial. When done correctly, medical practices can improve their effectiveness while improving cash flow, staff well-being, and patient care.

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Health Prime

MARCH 21, 2024

It begins at the front lines of the healthcare practice, where staff members collect essential demographic and insurance information during the initial patient contact. This information serves as the foundation for billing and reimbursement processes.

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Valant

DECEMBER 16, 2024

But understanding how to maintain compliance and bill properly is something that behavioral health clinicians and practice owners have to do. Every part of the billing process, front to back, is subject to these rules. More billing codes. Library of billing rules. Not all payers cover the same treatments.

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Valant

MARCH 2, 2024

For behavioral health practices, transitioning to in-house billing for mental health services can be extremely beneficial. In-house billing can boost efficiency, reduce spending, improve revenue streams, and simplify compliance—even with ever-evolving regulations. What inefficiencies exist? What areas can be improved?

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Health Prime

AUGUST 24, 2023

Effective communication with your medical billing partner is vital to identify areas of improvement, streamline your processes, and increase revenue. Furthermore, effective communication affects processes, efficiency, and every layer of your practice. Your billing company will provide you with best practices and industry expertise.

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Health Prime

OCTOBER 3, 2024

approximately 30% of all newly diagnosed cancers in women are breast cancer. For medical billing professionals, this month is a crucial reminder of the importance of accurate breast cancer diagnosis coding. Learn how to improve your medical practice and ensure you are getting paid for your work.

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Health Prime

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Practices can begin to identify and implement targeted strategies to address them, improving patient satisfaction, operational efficiency, and financial stability. Learn more about this in our blog Improve your front desk processes with these best practices. Main issues in the check-in process 1.

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Health Prime

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

By doing so, practices can implement processes to mitigate barriers and improve reimbursement rates. Read more about this in our blog 5 techniques to improve communication between your front desk and back office. Subscribe to the Health Prime blog. At Health Prime, we can help! Email us at sales@hpiinc.com.

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Health Prime

AUGUST 24, 2023

Effective communication with your medical billing partner is vital to identify areas of improvement, streamline your processes, and increase revenue. Furthermore, effective communication affects processes, efficiency, and every layer of your practice. Your billing company will provide you with best practices and industry expertise.

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Valant

MARCH 30, 2024

For more information, check out our fee agreement template , good faith estimate template , and our blog about TCPA compliance. Some even integrate the entire patient intake process, from prospective patient management , to intake paperwork, to scheduling, and all the way through to billing.

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ACMA Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Usually, these drugs are provided by hospitals or physicians’ offices who purchase the drugs directly from the wholesaler and bill the health insurance for the drug as well as the administration cost. This process is called buy-and-bill. Buy-and-bill is a process where physician offices receive medications for in-office administration.

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Valant

AUGUST 20, 2024

Become familiar with the mandates and best practices that will contribute to a safe and effective treatment environment: Maintain confidentiality. Billing: Competent billing becomes even more important when managing reimbursement for multiple patients with differing insurance at the same appointment.

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Valant

OCTOBER 23, 2024

CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) codes are essential for mental health professionals to accurately bill for psychotherapy services. These standardized codes ensure proper reimbursement and streamline the billing process for insurance companies and healthcare providers. What are CPT Codes for Psychotherapy?

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Health Prime

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Reports are a great data-driven means of benchmarking the performance of specific processes or functions within your medical practice. In one of our past blogs, we delved into the end-of-year reports you should run in your practice. Read more about this in our blog How to reduce your Days in AR.

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Valant

JANUARY 30, 2024

Blog Why Your Practice Should Accept Insurance for Therapy Along With Private Pay Learn More Grow Your Practice Leverage Your EHR To Grow Your Thriving Practice Learn More Financial Auditing and Billing Accuracy for an Internal vs. External Audit Billing accuracy and other financial records are critical components of audits.

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Health Prime

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Reports are a great data-driven means of benchmarking the performance of specific processes or functions within your medical practice. In one of our past blogs, we delved into the end-of-year reports you should run in your practice. Read more about this in our blog How to reduce your Days in AR.

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Valant

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Blog Mastering Automated Reminders for Better Patient Engagement Read More Grow Your Practice Leverage Your EHR To Grow Your Practice Learn More American Psychological Association (APA.org) The APA website offers valuable resources for practice management and professional development.

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Valant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

From understanding billing to leveraging cutting-edge electronic health record (EHR) systems, here’s everything you need to know about group therapy reimbursement. But for group therapy, the bill itself may look different. Follow these best practices for documenting group treatment: Be specific. Integrated billing.

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Valant

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Tracking revenue sources and expenditure patterns enables practice managers to make informed decisions that improve a practice’s financial sustainability. Evaluating staff productivity enables practice managers to allocate resources most effectively. For example: Define clear objectives and metrics to measure.

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Valant

AUGUST 1, 2024

Ask yourself the following questions about your practice: Are you turning away potential clients due to lack of bandwidth? Do your providers often run out of time for daily tasks like clinical notes and billing-related work? Also consider how best to communicate your practice’s atmosphere and mission to the interviewee.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

Thank you for continuing to check the Connect Care update blog for prescribers (ideally, subscribe to multiple channels; see instructions ).

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Valant

JUNE 2, 2024

As a practice owner , you’re also responsible for the business aspects of your practice—financial management, human resources, marketing, and compliance with legal regulations. You’ll also need to manage, or at least oversee the management of, daily administrative tasks like scheduling, billing , and staff supervision.

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Valant

MARCH 1, 2024

Obtaining consent from patients at each step along the way is a best practice that helps protect patients’ rights and privacy. It is important to seek legal advice on how to start a therapy practice, in order to ensure adherence to local, state, and federal laws and regulations. Your EHR software can help with HIPAA compliance.

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Health Prime

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Practices can begin to identify and implement targeted strategies to address them, improving patient satisfaction, operational efficiency, and financial stability. Learn more about this in our blog Improve your front desk processes with these best practices. Main issues in the check-in process 1.

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Health Prime

JANUARY 24, 2024

The easy follow-up of patients using telemonitoring solutions and the augmented access to internet services will continue increasing telemedicine delivery. Learn more about this in our blog Optimize your telemedicine appointments with these best practices. Read more in our blog 5 strategies to enhance patient engagement.

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Valant

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Blog Mastering Automated Reminders for Better Patient Engagement Read More Grow Your Practice Leverage Your EHR To Grow Your Practice Learn More How Wiley Treatment Planners Enhance Behavioral Health Practices Wiley Treatment Planners can streamline workflow integration, particularly when used with compatible EHR systems.

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Health Prime

JANUARY 3, 2024

This ensures the accuracy of the patient’s record and streamlines subsequent billing and reimbursement processes. By integrating electronic systems that allow for instantaneous confirmation of insurance coverage, medical practices can identify potential issues before providing services.

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Health Prime

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Boost your practice’s efficiency Benchmarking helps you pinpoint where there’s room for improvement. This comparison can reveal inefficiencies in your billing processes, giving you the insight to boost revenue collection, reduce claim denials, and ultimately strengthen your practice’s financial health.

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Health Prime

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Boost your practice’s efficiency Benchmarking helps you pinpoint where there’s room for improvement. This comparison can reveal inefficiencies in your billing processes, giving you the insight to boost revenue collection, reduce claim denials, and ultimately strengthen your practice’s financial health.

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Valant

JULY 5, 2024

Blog Mastering Automated Reminders for Better Patient Engagement Read More Grow Your Practice Leverage Your EHR To Grow Your Practice Learn More Effective Revenue Cycle Management Revenue cycle management (RCM) is critical to the financial health of any large practice.

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Medical Advantage

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, we will explore the importance of implementing cost containment initiatives and provide an in-depth look at the top healthcare best practices that can help reduce healthcare spending. Proper billing and revenue management contribute significantly to the overall success of healthcare operations.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: When PatientsLikeMe was acquired by UnitedHealthcare earlier this year, my friends-in-health-tech Susannah Fox, Lisa Suennen and I wrote a response to the acquisition and situation on each of our blogs, and on Medium. Was this due to the growing experience and reporting of surprise medical bills?

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Valant

APRIL 2, 2024

Performance Reporting: The ability to focus on metrics such as patient retention, insurance aging, and billing documentation status goes a long way towards practice efficiency. For example, analyzing financial data within the EHR can help practices optimize billing processes.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

With this integrated approach to risk, the OIG highlights best practices to help healthcare entities fulfill their commitment to compliance with a focus on company-wide involvement driven by leadership. Anticipates and responds to new compliance challenges surrounding changes in healthcare delivery, ownership, and payment.

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