Getting paid. It’s one of the most important—and frustrating—aspects of every physician practice. Without a solid billing and collections process in place, your practice risks serious financial problems. And with the push toward consumer-directed healthcare, your collections troubles will likely only get worse.
Get paid faster and more accurately for the services you provide
Improve Billing and Collections: Get the Money You Deserve Now offers a valuable overview of the collections process for a typical physician practice. Benefit from expert advice and information on such essential topics as fine-tuning the billing process, increasing in-office collections, improving third-party collections, and pursuing patient balances.
Beyond the basics of billing
This how-to book and accompanying CD-ROM also provides you with easy-to-implement strategies for improving your practice’s financial health. For example, learn how adding alternative revenue streams such as ancillary services may improve your bottom line. Improve Billing and Collections also covers important payment trends such as consumer-directed healthcare.
You deserve to collect every penny you’ve earned.
Improve Billing and Collections: Get the Money You Deserve Now can help you do just that with:
- practical organizational ideas
- valuable tips on staff training
- useful charts and forms such as a managed-care collection letter and an insurance information form, all easy-to-modify and located on the companion CD-ROM
- expert guidance in dealing with managed-care contracts, patients’ delinquent payments, and other obstacles on the road to getting paid
Chock-full of ideas, advice, and information, Improve Billing and Collections brings you practical, proven techniques to build your bottom line. Order your copy today!
Table of Contents
Introduction
Section One: Fine-tuning the financial-management process
Chapter 1: A revenue cycle overview
Chapter 2: Staff responsibilities
Chapter 3: Coding and auditing processes
Section Two: Collecting from patients in office
Chapter 4: Importance of in-office collections
Chapter 5: Methods to improve in-office collections
Chapter 6: Patient referrals
Chapter 7: Consumer-directed healthcare
Chapter 8: Alternative revenue streams
Section Three: Improving collections from third-party payers
Chapter 9: Fee schedule updates
Chapter 10: Accounts receivable
Chapter 11: Relationships with payers
Chapter 12: Denied claims appeals
Chapter 13: Contract negotiations
Chapter 14: Contract termination
Section Four: Collecting from patients after they leave the office
Chapter 15: Collection process for pursuing delinquent balances
Chapter 16: Internal means to secure patient payment
Chapter 17: External means to collect payment
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