The below articles are all published in BC advantage
Magazine and written and contributed by Alice
Scott
Alice Scott President
at Solutions Medical Billing Inc.
Rome, NY
Protect Your Business with Your Medical Billing Service Contract
When we started our Medical Billing Service in 1994 there was very little information available on medical billing services let alone medical billing service contracts. In fact, some of the information indicated that you really didn't even need a con...
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Dealing With Overpayments
Sometimes a provider is reimbursed too much money for the services provided which results in an overpayment. Sometimes the overpayment is made by the insurance carrier and sometimes it is made by the patient. In either case, it is important that the ...
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How Good is Your Claim Scrubber?
The best way to reduce outstanding receivables in a medical provider's office is to make sure that claims being sent out are clean. Clean claims require less effort in collecting payment and result in faster payments. Claims with errors come back as ...
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How a Website Can Benefit Your Business
Time was when owning a website for your business was a luxury and you were a visionary, but now today in 2010 owning a website has become a necessity. We look for everything on the web - phone numbers, addresses, directions, shopping, competition, id...
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How Technology has Changed Medical Billing
When we started our medical billing business in 1994 things were very different than they are today. Electronic claim submission was just catching on. Living in a rural area in NY it was almost unheard of. Medicare and some of the larger insurance...
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Understanding CAQH Credentialing
There are a lot of misconceptions among medical providers as to what exactly CAQH is and what it will do for a provider. CAQH stands for The Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare and is a nonprofit alliance of health plans and trade associations...
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10 Amazing Advantages of Web Based Medical Billing Software
More and more providers and billing services are looking into the benefits of web-based software over the "old fashioned" server-based practice management systems. After running a medical billing business with server-based software for fifteen years,...
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10 Ways to Increase Receivables in Your Medical Office
In these new economic times many of us are tightening our belts and looking for ways to bring up the accounts receivable, especially if we can do it without increasing the number of patients that are seen. Many providers think that if they want to ma...
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