Health Prime

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In this stage of the medical billing process, your front-end staff ensures proper collection and recording of valuable data essential to provide proper services to the patient and ensure their coverage. However, errors in this data are common and have consequences for your practice. Main issues in the check-in process 1.

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Forbes Healthcare

MAY 15, 2024

Plus: ChatGPT for health insurance

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 12, 2021

What is senior life insurance? It is an insurance policy aimed at covering expenses that come with old age like medical costs, nursing care costs, remaining debts and burial or funeral expenses. Senior life insurance […]. The article Life Insurance For Seniors appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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CollaborateMD

MARCH 20, 2025

Whether you’re a physician starting a practice or a healthcare provider working to expand patient access, getting medical insurance credentialing is vital. RELATED ARTICLE: Optimizing Insurance Payer Reimbursement with RCM Services What is Medical Insurance Credentialing? Let’s dive in.

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Scrubs

AUGUST 11, 2023

Patients around the country are getting stuck with enormous medical bills as hospitals continue to mark up the cost of their services, including those for routine medical procedures and advanced surgeries. For many patients and families, rising medical bills can be a nightmare. Why Are Medical Bills So High?

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CollaborateMD

DECEMBER 6, 2024

If medical claims management is such a vital part of the healthcare ecosystem, why is it so frustrating? Don’t worry; we’ll also recommend actionable strategies for quick wins and long-term solutions, improving medical claims processing for better results and happier staff. It’s also a big part of accounts receivable.

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Health Prime

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Reasons why medical practices should support Movember Men’s health issues often don’t receive the attention they deserve. Therefore, medical practices can act as subject matter experts in raising awareness about these issues. The post Why medical practices should support Movember appeared first on Health Prime.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 12, 2024

The first is from Nihar Rama, a medical student at the University of Chicago. I still remember the email notifying me I was accepted to medical school. Several years later, now deep into my medical education, I often reflect on my path. This feeling is not unique to medical trainees.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 11, 2025

Cyberattacks and data breaches have been announced by Sunflower Medical Group, The Center for Digestive Health, NVW Newco, Endless Mountains Health Systems, and the Department of Veterans Affairs Eastern Colorado Health Care System. It is currently unclear which hacking group is behind the attack, and if patient data was compromised.

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Forbes Healthcare

JULY 26, 2024

Discover the key factors to consider before deciding to retire overseas, including affordability, taxes, medical insurance, and residence requirements.

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Forbes Healthcare

MARCH 26, 2025

billion to buy ProAssurance could be a sign of more consolidation among companies selling medical malpractice coverage. News that The Doctors Company is spending $1.3

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In the third quarter, the seven major publicly traded insurers’ medical loss ratios increased an average of 3.3 percentage points year over year — a major jump in medical costs.

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The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

This often-overlooked connection between routine medical care and opioid dependence demands urgent attention. How Physicians and Hospitals Sustain the Opioid Epidemic For decades, the pharmaceutical industry has shaped medical education, ingraining the belief that opioids are the best first-line treatment for acute pain.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 26, 2025

Sunflower Medical Group is facing a class action lawsuit over its recently disclosed data breach involving the protected health information of almost 221,000 current and former patients. Sunflower Medical Group is a private multi-specialty medical practice with four locations in Kansas. Sunflower Medical Group, P.A. ,

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Scrubs

AUGUST 9, 2023

Getting access to your medical records isn’t always easy. Under HIPAA’s privacy rule, all patients have the right to inspect, review, and receive a copy of their medical records and billing records that are held by health plans and health care providers. However, state laws and provider regulations can complicate this process.

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Medical Economics

MAY 1, 2024

In a world of high deductibles and copays, health insurance offers less protection from medical debt than it did a generation ago.

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

You may wonder how my husband lived almost 40 years and had three kids without ever being diagnosed – simple medical bias. If it weren’t for my medical education, we would have never known my children and husband had EDS and MCAS. often attributed to other conditions, not EDS. I am a doctor in the U.S.

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Forbes Healthcare

JANUARY 23, 2025

Elevance Health reported nearly $6 billion in 2024 profits including $418 million in the fourth quarter as the health insurer worked to overcome rising medical expenses.

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Forbes Healthcare

JANUARY 22, 2025

Self-insured employers pay more for medical care because they do not negotiate successfully with insurers.

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Forbes Healthcare

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

billion in the fourth quarter as its health insurance business works to overcome rising medical expenses. CVS Health reported $4.6 billion in 2024 profit including $1.6

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CollaborateMD

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Despite its significance, the manual processes involved in tackling medical claims are error prone and time-consuming. Join us as we examine how automation revolutionizes medical claims processing accuracy and improves outcomes across the healthcare spectrum. Reducing duplication errors in medical claims documentation.

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99MGMT

DECEMBER 22, 2024

In healthcare, accurate health insurance verification isnt just a task its the key to smoother billing, happier patients, and fewer headaches. Failing to verify health insurance accurately can have significant consequences. Incorrect information can lead to delayed or denied claims , impacting revenue.

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KevinMD.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

medical system fails to treat all patients equally. Those with Medicaid often lack access to the same primary care and subspecialty clinics as those with Medicare or private insurance and face longer wait times. Introduction It is no secret that the U.S. Medicaid is jointly funded by the states and federal government.

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Health Prime

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Being so close to the New Year, it is of high importance that your medical practice finishes its medical billing in good time. This will go a long way toward your medical practice’s financial health and operational efficiency. Here are three essential tasks to help you wrap up your medical billing for the New Year: 1.

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Northwest Career College

OCTOBER 28, 2024

If you are considering pursuing a career in medical billing and coding, you may have questions like where you will be able to work after receiving your certification or license. Many healthcare settings require the services of medical billing and coding specialists for record organization and management, insurance claims, and billing.

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Valant

MAY 2, 2024

Insurance credentialing is an important, intricate process that results in you becoming a “paneled,” in-network provider for a health insurance plan. In this article, we will explain how to get credentialed with insurance companies using the three most common methods. Blog What Is an Insurance Panel? Medicare ).

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Practice Index

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The bombshell dropped by Rachel Reeves in last week’s budget regarding the increase in National Insurance contributions (NICs), without exempting GP practices, has been described as a monumental body blow to the heart of the NHS.

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Health Prime

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In this stage of the medical billing process, your front-end staff ensures proper collection and recording of valuable data essential to provide proper services to the patient and ensure their coverage. However, errors in this data are common and have consequences for your practice. Main issues in the check-in process 1.

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The Healthcare Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

These barriers include lack of referral to mental health providers, providers that are unable to take on new patients, initial wait times as long as two months, and lack of insurance coverage. What if I don’t have insurance? My primary care provider won’t start me on medication because I may want to try to become pregnant again.

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Medical Economics

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Commonwealth Fund examines underinsureds, now more than 20% of the people with health insurance around the country.

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MedVA

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This recognition underscores MEDVA’s transformative impact on healthcare efficiency, affordability, and quality of care, as it empowers medical practices across the United States to address staffing challenges with virtual assistants (VAs) who deliver essential support for operational tasks. Founded by doctors Steven Kupferman, M.D.,

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Mildred Elley

MARCH 19, 2025

Are you interested in a medical assistant career, but wonder, What is a medical assistant exactly? Before beginning this new chapter, its important to learn what are common medical assistant duties and how medical assistants perform in the workplace. What does a clinical medical assistant do?

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Operating income fell for all but two insurance divisions operated by major payers in the fourth quarter. And 2025 may be no better, after many major payers released outlooks suggesting medical costs will continue climbing this year.

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ACI Medical & Dental School

JANUARY 9, 2025

Our In Demand Career Spotlight Series focuses on careers in the medical and dental industries where demand for skilled workers outpaces supply. At ACI Medical & Dental School, you can be certified for these in-demand careers in just four months with the hands-on training, skills, and credentials youll need for your new job.

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CollaborateMD

APRIL 3, 2025

Healthcare practices are often plagued with medical billing compliance questions like: “Am I upcoding?” ” 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.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 29, 2024

The medical journal JAMA published the first trial. A Harvard group of mostly medical people randomized 2800 low-income people in a Massachusetts town to receive a cash benefit of $400 per month for 9 months or not. Unlike many medical researchers, the economists wrote strongly about the null results, as if they were not disappointed.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

How financially vulnerable are people with medical debt in the U.S.? The Kaiser Family Foundation and Peterson Center on Healthcare analyzed the NFCS data through a consumer health care financial lens with a focus on medical debt. Those with medical debt in the U.S. Those with medical debt in the U.S.

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