Health Prime

MARCH 21, 2024

The revenue cycle in healthcare refers to the entire process of managing the financial aspects of patient care, from the initial appointment scheduling to the final payment received for services rendered. Additionally, clear communication of patient responsibilities, such as copays or deductibles, during scheduling promotes transparency.

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The HIPAA Journal

MAY 2, 2024

A lawsuit was filed over the data breach alleging BioPlus should have prevented the breach and could have if reasonable cybersecurity measures had been implemented and industry-standard security best practices had been followed. BioPlus has not admitted liability or any wrongdoing related to the cyberattack and data breach.

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Health Prime

MAY 30, 2024

Implement robust coding and documentation practices Accurate medical coding and detailed documentation are crucial elements in preventing underpayments. Therefore, it is important to ensure your staff is well-trained in coding practices and emphasize the importance of thorough documentation to support the services provided.

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Health Prime

JUNE 22, 2023

This rapid growth must encourage gastroenterology practices to ensure a streamlined revenue cycle and maximize reimbursements. Therefore, adopting best practices in medical billing is essential. Best practices for efficient gastroenterology medical billing 1.

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Valant

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This allows practitioners to spend more time on direct client care and less time on documentation. The planners are grounded in evidence-based practices (EBP) , incorporating current research and clinical guidelines. This leads to more efficient documentation processes and better overall practice management.

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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. Scheduling: You’ll collaborate with group members to select a meeting day and time that works for everyone. Therapists are legally bound by confidentiality.

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Valant

JANUARY 14, 2025

Were guided by an advisory board of behavioral health industry experts and customers, so our decisions continue to reflect best practices in the field. Speed your process In Valants fully-integrated system, every workflowfrom notetaking to scheduling to billingis designed to be as efficient as possible.

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Valant

MARCH 30, 2024

Complete and accurate documentation is a crucial part of the therapy intake process. A patient’s medical history, presenting concerns, treatment preferences, and any relevant psychosocial factors should all be documented. It ensures that important information is recorded for future reference and can be used as a baseline.

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Health Prime

JULY 18, 2024

Claim denials can occur for various reasons, including incorrect patient information, coding errors, lack of prior authorization, incomplete documentation, and non-covered services. How can medical practices prevent claim denials? What are the common reasons for claim denials? Preventing claim denials requires a proactive approach.

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Valant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Group therapy involves unique documentation and coding practices that can significantly impact your bottom line. These codes are used to document the services provided within a group context. Accurate Documentation for Group Therapy Accurate documentation is the cornerstone of successful reimbursement.

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Valant

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

To effectively market your behavioral health business online, it’s crucial to maintain consistent branding across all platforms.

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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 patients struggle to schedule timely appointments and/or contact their provider when needed? Do your providers often run out of time for daily tasks like clinical notes and billing-related work?

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

The most prevalent use of automation across over one-half of the health care leaders’ organizations is with billing processes, appointment scheduling, patient check-in, staff scheduling, and clinical data entry. ” The post How to Get Better Care to More People?

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Health Prime

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) Report RCM reports provide a comprehensive view of your practices revenue cycle, from patient scheduling and billing to payment collections. Compliance and audit reports help you monitor adherence to coding, documentation, and billing standards. At Health Prime, we can help!

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Northwest Career College

JULY 10, 2024

They achieve this by rendering their services for several tasks, which may include: Legal Documents: Draft, review, and edit contracts, briefs, and pleadings. Scheduling: Maintaining the lawyers’ calendars, scheduling appointments, or making meetings. This flexibility can mean increased job satisfaction and productivity.

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Valant

JANUARY 30, 2024

Common audit requirements help providers maintain practices that align with the highest standards of care. Data Collection and Documentation What’s involved in insurance audits varies. Typically, auditors review clinical and financial data during mental health practice audits.

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Valant

JULY 5, 2024

Streamline Documentation: Use digital forms and automated systems to collect patient information before their first visit. Centralized Scheduling: Implement a centralized patient scheduling system to manage appointments effectively and reduce issues such as overbooking or no-shows.

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Northwest Career College

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Here are some best practices to guide you in effectively doing so as a dental administrative assistant. In other words, as a dental administrative assistant, you will only be accessing information about a patient for scheduling, billing purposes, or any other reason listed as an administrative duty.

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Bell-Brown Medical Institute

APRIL 15, 2022

This person not only has extensive knowledge in all areas related to patient care and documentation maintenance. She/he also knows how best practices to apply these skills every day at work while managing her own schedule like nobody else could do better than herself/himself.

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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. Those professionals will have important insights on how to start a therapy practice. For many behavioral health practices, another key hire is a prescriber.

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Northwest Suburban College

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Checking the schedule to see which patients will be coming in is also an essential part of the morning routine. During this meeting, the day’s schedule and any special cases are reviewed. These duties can include scheduling appointments, managing phone calls, and updating patient records.

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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. Clinical Workflow Improvement EHR data can reveal gaps in care delivery, such as missed appointments or incomplete documentation.

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Valant

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

For instance, monitoring appointment scheduling and wait times helps streamline administrative processes and reduce patient wait times. Efficient scheduling enhances patient satisfaction as well as resource allocation within the practice. For example: Define clear objectives and metrics to measure.

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Medical Advantage

MARCH 28, 2024

In this blog, we will explore patient engagement best practices and the top patient engagement tools available. Medication reminders and notifications: Reminders provide timely alerts to patients about their medication schedules, ensuring they adhere to their prescribed treatment plans.

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Arkenea

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

With access to an AI service that has reviewed every documented case, the accuracy of matching symptoms to patient issues will increase. We also use AI services through meeting minutes, schedules, documentation summaries and in several other areas. For instance, imagine a doctor diagnosing a patient’s symptoms.

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CollaborateMD

MAY 25, 2023

The process involves verifying the patient’s coverage, accurately documenting medical history, submitting claims promptly, and ensuring compliance with regulations. Oncology medical billing requires understanding medical coding to run a successful oncology practices. What is Oncology Medical Billing?

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Arkenea

OCTOBER 15, 2024

A custom healthcare website development opens up options for integrating features such as online appointment scheduling, medical resources, blogs, contact information, referrals, and a list of healthcare providers. The project requirement documents are essentially the backbone of our project. This aspect attracts patients.

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Valant

MARCH 2, 2024

Training should also emphasize the importance of maintaining patient confidentiality and accurately documenting services provided. Staying agile is important for any practice in a field such as behavioral health, where changing regulations and market dynamics can have a big impact.

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Southern Careers Institute

JULY 31, 2023

MAs simplify patient flow, optimize appointment scheduling, and ensure efficient care coordination, leading to enhanced patient access and improved continuity of care. Adherence to evolving best practices is also vital for MAs, who must keep pace with the changing healthcare landscape and provide quality care to patients.

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Relias

AUGUST 9, 2023

Videotaping or recording live training events and uploading them to a learning management system prevents you from having to send employees off-site or schedule another training. There isn’t a test you can put in front of them to know whether they’re employing best practices.

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Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And the other thing is that it’s always good to, when you are mostly or solely in one hospital, there are practices that hospitals do not because they’re best practice necessarily, but because they’re habit or it’s the way that the hospital has always done it. It’s entirely done without my supervision.

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Relias

MARCH 13, 2023

In the healthcare industry, regulations and best practices are always changing. The best way to protect your organization is to monitor your compliance risks proactively. Failure to obtain the correct and necessary documentation, demographic information, and signatures could delay payment to your organization.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

JUNE 20, 2023

In addition to supporting documents, communication can take place in person as part of a regular or specially scheduled meeting. This can work especially well if the communication is more informative (no need for immediate action) or it is difficult to set up direct time with busy executives.

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