AI in healthcare usually gets discussed in terms of diagnosis, clinical documentation or patient care. There’s another side developing just as quickly. Revenue cycle management. Medical billing departments deal with enormous amounts of repetitive information every day. Eligibility checks, claims, payment records, denials and payer responses all create data that has to be reviewed and […]
Hiring another employee used to be the obvious answer when a medical practice became busier. Today, not always. Healthcare organizations are dealing with rising administrative workloads while recruitment for experienced support roles can take time. At the same time, remote work has made it possible for practices to access trained professionals well beyond their immediate […]
There is a point where an unpaid medical claim stops being a routine follow up and starts becoming a problem. The longer it sits, the harder it can become to collect. That’s why accounts receivable days, often called A/R days, deserve much more attention than simply checking an aging report at the end of the […]
Running a medical practice comes with a strange balancing act. You want your team focused on patients, but somewhere behind every appointment there is an insurance verification, a code, a claim and eventually a payment that needs to arrive. When that side of the practice starts getting messy, the question usually comes up: should we […]