Redefining the Role of Billers and Coders in the Wake of Ensuing Accountable...
Amongst the many farsighted health reforms that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) has floated is the concept of Accountable Care Organization (ACO). Believed to be a...
View ArticleACO Final Rule Released
Center of Medicare and Medicaid services released the final accountable care organization rule. ACO’s consist of physicians, hospitals, and other providers in various combinations that attempt to...
View ArticleIs Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Model Viable?
“Given the situation, although Accountable Care Organization (ACO) model of medical care seems a safer option, yet the initial clinical & operational realignments and adhering to CMS compliance...
View ArticleIn Retrospection: Revenue Collection Accomplishments in 2011
“While these comprehensive measures are no doubt indispensable to optimizing healthcare overheads and expenditure, physicians’ task to get their bills reimbursed could get even tougher, thereby making...
View ArticleBalancing ACO Objective with Physician Reimbursement Maximization
As the U.S. healthcare sector looks up the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Concept of healthcare delivery with great expectation, physician community is quite apprehensive about their ability to...
View ArticleExodus to Hospital-Based Employment and its Effect on Healthcare Industry
While the recent healthcare reforms ushered in by the Federal Government promises to elevate clinical and operational efficiency across the nation’s healthcare continuum, it is also going to induce...
View ArticleRecognizing Value in Healthcare Reforms with the Help of a Billing Service
U.S. health care industry is characterized by multiple stakeholders – patients, care providers, and payers. The Federal Government, being the custodian of this priority sector, has had to keep each of...
View ArticleGauging the Accountable Care Readiness of Your Practice
Accountable Care Readiness or ACO is the concept of healthcare providers (medical groups, practices and hospitals) collaborating for bringing down care costs and improving healthcare quality for...
View ArticleChallenges Push Family Practitioners to Partner with Medical Billing...
Despite the delay in implementation of 26.5 percent cut in Medicare family practitioners payment, AAFP continues to call on Congress for a repeal of the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula. This is...
View ArticleHow to make successful Accountable Care Organization?
Value-based care is gaining more popularity in the US healthcare system and Accountable care organizations (ACOs) provide the main push for the healthcare industry away from fee-for-service towards...
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