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MEDICARE SECONDARY PAYER (MSP)

As a “secondary payer,” Medicare is the next in line to pay your medical bills. If you are covered by another insurance plan in addition to Medicare, that insurer is likely to be the primary payer of your medical bills. The primary payer will cover the claim up to his/her…
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Claim Rejected By the Insurance?

Here’s the Top 5 COMMON CLAIM REJECTIONS And How To Fix It Fixing claim rejections is easy once you know what’s going on. Multiple rejection messages may appear for one entry because each payer/clearinghouse worded their rejection message differently. MISSING OR INVALID PAYER ID According to this rejection, the payer…
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WWS SPECIALIZED MEDICAL BILLING PAYMENT POSTING

EOB READING AND ANALYSIS In medical billing, decoding the payment posting process includes decoding the Patients’ names, account numbers, control numbers, service dates, procedure codes, billed/allowed/adjusted amounts, denials information, deductibles, co-insurances, co-payments if any, and so on. The second you receive the EOB from the insurer, you should read it…
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How to Keep EHR Implementation Costs Low

Even as the healthcare industry becomes more driven by – and welcoming of – technological change, there are still many doctors who prefer to stick with paper-based processes for as long as possible. What is the most difficult thing to give up? Those dependable manila-folder medical records. Though the HITECH…
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The Link Between Patient Engagement & Reimbursement

Increasing patient engagement is a top priority for most modern medical practices, especially in the increasingly value-based landscape of medical billing. Even for organizations that have yet to embrace the shift to quality over quantity, patient engagement is far more valuable financially than most practices realize. Why Is Patient Engagement…
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Transitioning From an Existing EHR System

Some medical practices have more experience with EHR implementations than they’d like to admit in 2021. Many organisations have moved on from the solutions they first deployed in the early 2010s. Most EHR implementations nowadays aren’t about converting a practice to a digital solution from the ground up, but rather…
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