Doximity

MARCH 21, 2025

Physicians spend a significant amount of time on administrative work, from writing letters to handling insurance documentation. Akanksha Dadlani, MD, Psychiatry - Insurance letters and prior authorizations Akanksha Dadlani, MD, MPH primarily uses Doximity GPT for writing patient letters, particularly for insurance and prior authorizations.

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Scrubs

MARCH 21, 2023

MaineHealth recently announced it is using AI to automatically record conversations between doctors and their patients during a check-up or follow-up visit. We end up doing what we went into medicine for,” she said. Nobody went into medicine to write notes or fill out insurance authorization forms,” said J.

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Hospital Follow-Up Appointments Documentation 264

Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2019

For mainstream Americans, “the math doesn’t add up” for paying medical bills out of median household budgets, based on the calculations in the 2019 VisitPay Report. Patients Consider Costs and Insurance Essential to Their Overall Health Experience appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. Given a $60K median U.S.

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Insurance Billing Medication Follow-Up 113

Scrubs

JUNE 16, 2023

In the aftermath of a breach, the focus frequently falls on the risk of confidential patient information being exposed, but these attacks can also leave hospitals hemorrhaging millions of dollars in the months that follow, and also cause disruptions to patient care, potentially putting lives at stake.

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Insurance Hospital Vital Signs Billing 186

Sensible Medicine

JUNE 16, 2023

There is also “Enigmas,” a list of patients I have seen with another doctor whose presentation had confused us and whose evaluation I want to follow. This panel is made up of people who used to be my patients but no longer are — people who left my practice without telling me. And then there is the ghost patient panel.

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Insurance Patient Satisfaction Follow-Up Documentation 242

Practice Index

JANUARY 2, 2025

The BMA has called for an increase of 20% plus inflation for salaried GPs, alongside a commitment to annual uplifts in the following years to reverse the effects of over a decade of underfunding. Im not getting my hopes up! Another Practice Manager we spoke to summed up the mood: The ongoing pay dispute is not just about numbers.

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Follow-Up Insurance Patient Care Medication 98

Practice Index

MARCH 6, 2025

Lords bid to exempt practices from NI increases Practices could still be exempted from the increase in employers National Insurance rates following a vote in the House of Lords. The Lords voted to amend the National Insurance Act to protect health and care providers. It states that the dispute with Government may be over.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

While consumers’ satisfaction with inpatient care experiences improved a few points over the past year, health insurance and hospitals still fall in the bottom-third of all industries with which people interact, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Insurance and Health Care Study 2021-2022.

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Insurance Follow-Up Hospital 117

Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

Patients’ concerns of COVID-19 risks have led them to self-ration care in the following ways: 41% have delayed health care services. Nearly every respondent in the study reported having health insurance coverage. Another 8% had Medicaid or a state health insurance program.

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Insurance Tests Follow-Up Huddles/Rounds 161

Health Prime

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Wrapping up your practice for the New Year includes: Reconciling all accounts accurately Sorting out outstanding claims Updating patient information These measures will prevent discrepancies that lead to financial loss, reduce mistakes, and speed up the claim approval process, allowing your practice to continue running without glitches.

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Billing Medication Follow-Up Insurance 52

Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

My Zoom invitation to Stacy was a very convenient excuse for me to catch up with a friend in the field: we have known each other since Stacy started to grow her health-social media presence on Twitter. Health care executive first; patient advocacy followed. for herself and for her son, Emmett. I like business and people.

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Patient Advocacy Follow-Up Appointments Discharges 174

The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

One morning, you wake up to a missed call and a voicemail from your PR leader. You follow up and learn that this wasnt just any employee. At 5:30am the next morning, her husband woke up and found that she was not in the bed. Later that same day you set up an emergent meeting to debrief the situation with your leaders.

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Follow-Up Discharges Appointments Hospital 102

Scrubs

AUGUST 22, 2023

Just this year alone, we’ve seen some of the largest and most alarming healthcare data breaches in history, including those related to the American Medical Collection Agency, insurer Dominion National, and Inmediata Health Group, just to name a few. The number of healthcare data breaches keeps going up year after year.

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Follow-Up Documentation HIPAA Patient Records 240

Sensible Medicine

MAY 25, 2023

“The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services should make establishing payment codes for products involving women’s heart disease a priority to prompt private insurers to cover new service lines.” Insurers will be forced to raise rates to cover this new charge. ” U.S.

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Tests Diagnostics Follow-Up Insurance 190

Scrubs

AUGUST 4, 2023

To learn more about the rate of medically unnecessary care, the group sorted through insurance claims from 1.3 In another story, ProPublica analyzed how often nursing home drugs end up in the trash. Rethinking the Phrase “Do No Harm” Doctors have a responsibility to follow the oath, “Do no harm.” The findings were astonishing.

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Tests Billing Insurance Medication 230

Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 19, 2024

Pumps should be covered by insurance, and other supplies. There is no credible evidence breast feeding improves IQ (even the one RCT that *spuriously* claimed this lost that claim in follow up). It's completely reasonable to *gently* encourage breast feeding, and teach (not guilt) new mothers to do it.

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Follow-Up Insurance Hospital 157

Scrubs

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As a result of these experiences, I launched my organization Project Diversify Medicine, a digital community on Instagram with over 60,000 followers, with a mission to provide culturally inclusive pre-med educational resources to increase the admission of minorities to medical school. I am a doctor in the U.S.

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Medication Admissions Follow-Up Insurance 276

CollaborateMD

APRIL 3, 2025

” With all of these concerns, it’s vital that providers and billing departments understand and follow the key elements of proper medical billing compliance to run a successful practice. Following health insurance policies and procedures. ” “Do I have all the correct patient information?”

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Billing Medication HIPAA Follow-Up 52

Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

billion investment makes ONEM the third largest acquisition in Amazon’s portfolio, following Whole Foods at $13.7 For the former, Amazon leadership is talking up the company’s expertise in consumer experience and delight, efficiency and engagement (which I addressed in yesterday’s Day 1 post ).

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Medication Follow-Up Insurance HIPAA 165

Health Prime

MARCH 21, 2024

The revenue cycle is a complex and multifaceted system that involves various stakeholders, including healthcare providers, payers (insurance companies), and patients. It begins at the front lines of the healthcare practice, where staff members collect essential demographic and insurance information during the initial patient contact.

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Billing Medication Follow-Up Appointments 105

The Healthcare Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

OK, there is a need to verify health insurance coverage, but one might expect this to be a simple matter of checking eligibility->coverage->currency-with-premiums, and something that can be done asynchronously. Apparently she hadn’t bothered, so here we were again.

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Appointments Follow-Up Insurance Medication 70

Valant

MAY 30, 2024

There are four critical functions that practitioners should evaluate for outsourcing or hiring: billing, payroll, insurance credentialing, and human resources (HR). Changes in regulations, insurance requirements , and technology mean that practitioners must be proactive to meet the evolving needs of their patients and the industry as a whole.

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Billing Insurance Follow-Up Patient Satisfaction 105

Scrubs

AUGUST 18, 2023

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was signed into law in 2010, requires health insurance plans to cover the cost of certain health services related to breastfeeding with no out-of-pocket expenses, including breastfeeding supplies like breast pumps and milk storage bags, and lactation counseling.

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Follow-Up Insurance 239

Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2021

These increases range from the highest percentage change for inpatient care, over 10%, followed by professional services (e.g., up, compared with the largest cost increase across categories in 2020 of 7.2%. Each year, I figure out what the average PPO cost could buy someone in exchange for that health insurance.

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Insurance Follow-Up Tests Medication 174

The Healthcare Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Following the surge, investment plummeted. What were left with entering into 2025 are a smorgasbord of solutions clamoring to attach themselves to traditional enterprise incumbents (Health Insurance Providers, Electronic Health Records, Hospital Systems). Those regions are ripe for follow-on expansion and digital scale.

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Insurance Follow-Up Collaboration Patient Support 64

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

In movies in particular, we’ve seen health care costs and hassles play featured in plotlines in As Good as it Gets [theme: health insurance coverage], M*A*S*H [war and its medical impacts are hell], and Philadelphia [HIV/AIDS in the era of The Band Played On], among dozens of others. Here’s the ad you can watch for yourself.

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Insurance Follow-Up Medication Billing 143

Northwest Suburban College

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Medical billing and insurance processing are essential skills for aspiring medical assistants. Both medical billing and insurance processing require attention to detail and strong communication skills. The claim is then submitted to the patient’s insurance company for payment.

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Medical Assistant Billing Insurance Medication 52

Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Power has studied including health insurance, insurance and financial services. Across all providers, AmWell scored highest at 885, followed by Doctor on Demand with 879 points. Cigna, the highest-scoring payer-backed telehealth organization, racked up 874 points on the 1,000-point scale. In the study, J.D.

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Physical Exams Customer Service Insurance Follow-Up 147

Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2023

” HealthEdge’s latest research into health consumers’ perspectives finds peoples’ satisfaction with their health insurance plans lacking, with members seeking easier access their personal health information, high levels of service, and rewards for healthy behaviors.

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Insurance Follow-Up Care Plan Communication 62

Scrubs

MAY 18, 2024

Nurses in these settings play a pivotal role in providing medical care and guiding patients through the complexities of the healthcare system without insurance. Access to Affordable Online Medical Resources As healthcare evolves, the Internet has become a crucial resource for managing health, especially for those without insurance.

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Insurance Patient Advocacy Tests Extended Care 130

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

People who skipped care were most likely to avoid dental care (25%), visit to a GP or specialist (21%), preventive health screening or medical test (16%), treatment or follow-up care (12%), or a hospital visit (10%). The Urban Institute also promotes the use of telehealth especially for chronic disease management and follow-up visits.

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Follow-Up Tests Insurance Hospital 156

CollaborateMD

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Understanding the Challenges in Claims Processing Errors in medical claims processing have traditionally posed significant challenges for hospitals, insurers, and patients alike. Automatically flagging errors before claims are submitted to insurance providers. Ensures compliance with insurance requirements.

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Medication Billing Insurance HIPAA 52

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Most of these live video calls were also done through a service offered by consumers’ health care providers (doctors/clinicians), followed by services offered by insurance companies. Willingness in sharing health data with insurers, pharmacies, research institutions all fell between 2019 and 2020.

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Follow-Up Insurance Hospital Medication 174

Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Most patients depart because of the realities of life: a move, loss or change of insurance, death. They were healthy and needed to deal with a single issue or felt like it was time for a “check-up.” ” He left without making a follow up appointment and I never saw him again.

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Tests Diagnostics Follow-Up Scheduling 284

The HIPAA Journal

MAY 2, 2024

BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy Services has proposed a settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit that was filed in response to a 2021 data breach that exposed the data of up to 350,000 patients. The Florida specialty pharmacy chain notified the affected individuals within a month and offered them complimentary credit monitoring services.

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Follow-Up HIPAA Best Practices Documentation 111

Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 2, 2024

When I later saw these patients in follow-up, I often had to re-do my initial consult as I did not have the required details documented. I also initially struggled to get many medications approved by insurance as I had not documented (to their satisfaction) all the previous drugs trialed by the patient.

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Documentation Follow-Up Medication Scheduling 187

Practice Index

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Chair Professor Kamila Hawthorne said: “With winter fast approaching, our services will only get busier – and uncertainty around how the hike in National Insurance for employers will impact on practices is only adding to the pressures general practice is facing. The investment follows pressure from the BMA.

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