The Physician Billing Process: 12 Potholes to Avoid in the Road to Getting Paid

The authors have followed up their best-selling first edition with a book that shares more aggressive strategies to optimize your revenue cycle. The text is packed full of new, innovative tools, techniques, policies and procedures, and advanced practices that allow you to diagnose and treat your revenue cycle and ensure a financially healthy bottom line.

The depth and magnitude of change in health care reimbursement means that your medical practice cannot rely on the same old billing methods. Anything less than optimal performance from your billing office reduces cash flow and costs you money. Cutting edge strategies are presented to meet today's reimbursement challenges and improve the profitability of your medical practice.

"Real life" business practices that can be adopted immediately in your practice, include:

• Decipher consumer-directed health plans
• Segment patients in terms of financial risk
• Staff to effectively conduct front-end and back-end billing
• Capture increased revenue at the point of care
• Understand real-time claims adjudication
• Shrink your collections cycle
• Position your practice for pay-for-performance
• Work - and prevent - costly claim denials and rework
• Leverage multiple technologies
• Perform a cost/benefit analysis of your revenue cycle.
• 238 pages, softbound, published by MGMA, 2009

This text will move you forward on the road to getting paid!