Healthcare Industry Articles
Medical Reimursement and A/R Management Update
by Colin G. Ball
- Using Your Practice Management System to Support Marketing (Aug 2008)
- Improved Collection Performance for Off-Site Services (May 2008)
- Collect the 2008 Medicare Part B Deductible at the time of service (December 2007)
- Office of Inspector General Work Plan 2008 Highlights (November 2007)
- Plan now for the rest of the year and reap the benefits (October 2007)
- Maximize the use of your practice management system's capabilities
(July 2007)
Radiology Business Management Association Articles
by Colin G. Ball
Billing 501: Quick tips to enhance an already efficient billing operation...make the leap from performing well to "best practice"
- Improvement Area: Hospital Interface Files - Patient Demographic and Insurance Data (July-August 2008)
- Improvement Area: Monitoring Third-Party Billing Services for Optimum Performance (May-June 2008)
- Strategic Planning to Achieve "Best Practice" Results (March-April 2008)
- Coding Audits (January-February 2008)
- Improvement Area: Practice Management System to Support Marketing (January-February 2008)
- Improvement Area: Embezzlement Mitigation (September-October 2007)
- Improvement Area: Practice Management System Technology
(July-August 2007) - Improvement Area: Denial Management (May-June 2007)
- Improvement Area: Imaging center insurance verification (IV) and collection of all patient due balances prior to treatment (March-April 2007)
Florida Medical Business Articles
by Colin G. Ball
- Best to follow 'best practices' schedule (June 24, 2008)
- Management systems can always be more efficient (March 25, 2008)
- Keep good tabs for employee reviews (January 29, 2008)
- Downside to delaying Medicare claims (January 15, 2008)
- Get an office check-up for the holidays (November 20, 2007)
- Monthly check-ups for your billing system (September 11, 2007)
- Financial incentive in new reporting program (April 10, 2007)
- Long-term success = long-term planning (March 13, 2007)
- Protecting your practice from pilfering (January 16, 2007)
- Get on top of Medicare claims (November 7, 2006)
- Detailed steps ensure best billing-service performance
(September 12, 2006) - Billing manager must keep close tabs on reports, trends, solutions
(August 8, 2006) - Digging deeper boosts billing and coding efficiency (July 11, 2006)
- Is paying employees overtime worth it? (February 14, 2006)
- Why am I being denied? (December 20, 2005)
- Expect HSAs to boost patient-due balances (Nov. 22, 2005)
