How to get Compensated for COVID 19 Patient Care Precautions: The New CPT Code 99072
In September of the current year, the American Medical Association announced two new codes which would be added to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codeset, which are needed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the globe and this country in...
How to Manage Ambulance Billing Effectively
Most people would agree that effective management of ambulance billing should be comprised of minimizing patient complaints, avoiding any kind of litigation, and recovering reimbursement monies in the shortest time frame possible for services rendered. That takes in...
Is School-Based Medicaid Claiming Software worth Purchasing?
The good thing about school-based Medicaid claiming software is that it's usually developed so as to include all the mandatory compliance features in the state of Massachusetts and elsewhere. This can remove a lot of the checking and a lot of the hassle normally...
Common Mistakes Made in In-House Clinical Medical Billing
Whenever medical coding errors are included on claims forms, it will almost always result in some kind of a delay in reimbursement. Assuming that the error is a an unintentional mistake and not outright fraud, the mistake will almost certainly be detected by an...
Common Mistakes Made with In-House Billing
It's pretty easy to make some small errors when you have in-house billing, and when your billing specialists haven't been working with you for a long period of time. Someone who is less experienced and less knowledgeable about all the billing codes and modifiers to be...
The Key Benefits of Using Medical Billing Software for Your Medical Practice
You might think that your medical practice has been doing fine without using medical billing software up to this point, especially if you have a profitable and sustainable practice. However, it's very likely that if you would implement medical billing software at your...
Most Overlooked Aspects of Ambulance Billing
There is a good deal of complexity associated with ambulance billing, and that has caused frequent errors which result in claim denials by insurance carriers. In order to avoid having claims denied or processed very slowly, it can be really important for everyone...
How to Choose Ambulance Billing Software
The true value of the EMS, emergency medical services is never really appreciated until it needs to be used. In the perfect world, it would be optimal if patients were able to prepay for emergency services or pay as soon as the services are received. Of course, it is...
Why Are You Getting so Many Billing Denials?
Every medical denial could potentially be lost money. Eventually, when those claims are covered, there are fees associated with that recovery that typically have to be taken off the patient’s revenue. Some studies show that medical billing denials can cost up to $118...
Students Can Learn Anywhere with These Online Class Options
We cherish the importance of education, and what we love even more is when their online classes are free. Online Class Options. 2020 has been a huge learning curve for almost all parents, teachers, and students. Pandemic has changed how children learn, and with that...
How to Manage Ambulance Billing Effectively
Most people would agree that effective management of ambulance billing should be comprised of minimizing patient complaints, avoiding any kind of litigation, and recovering reimbursement monies in the shortest time frame possible for services rendered. That takes in...
Most Overlooked Aspects of Ambulance Billing
There is a good deal of complexity associated with ambulance billing, and that has caused frequent errors which result in claim denials by insurance carriers. In order to avoid having claims denied or processed very slowly, it can be really important for everyone...
How to Choose Ambulance Billing Software
The true value of the EMS, emergency medical services is never really appreciated until it needs to be used. In the perfect world, it would be optimal if patients were able to prepay for emergency services or pay as soon as the services are received. Of course, it is...
Top Mistakes in Ambulance Billing Costing You Money
As specialists in medical billing, we’re well aware of just how tricky it can be to process a high number of invoices and ensure they’re paid on time. Of course, the process isn’t made easier if errors cause delays. If you want to keep your cash flowing, take a look...
Tips to Improve Ambulance Billing Efficiency
Ambulances are a necessary and heavily-relied upon part of every community. Imagine if we didn’t have ambulances. In the event of a sudden emergency, when someone needs to be transported to the hospital very quickly, what would we do? A lack of ambulances would lead...
5 Things Emergency Responders Are Doing to Protect Themselves Against Coronavirus
Emergency Responders working on the front lines to help contain and prevent the spread of Coronavirus need to take special, yet extremely common, precautions in order to keep themselves and others safe during this time. Although it’s a difficult time for all of us,...
COVID-19 Medical Billing Tips for Emergency Responders
The recent COVID-19 pandemic that is sweeping the globe has caused a shift in the way most people live. Many states have issued lockdown orders, while the CDC has encouraged social distancing. Thousands of people in the U.S. have already been diagnosed, and the death...
5 Ways Ambulance Billing Services Help
When a medical emergency occurs, a swift response from EMTs and paramedics dramatically improves survival rates. To ensure medical personnel can arrive on the scene quickly, ambulance services are routinely dispatched. However, obtaining payment for these services...
How Will the ET3 Model be Phased Over the Next Several Years, to Make it Easier for Providers to Deliver High-quality Service?
In February of 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new model to be used for payment of emergency ambulance services. This new model is intended to allow Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries to get the best level of care at the...
Ambulance Billing Guide for 2019
All cities throughout the New England area are faced with the need to conserve on expenditures and to provide the most value for services which have been budgeted, and ambulance service is no exception. Since ambulance service is so critical to the community and those...
Is School-Based Medicaid Claiming Software worth Purchasing?
The good thing about school-based Medicaid claiming software is that it's usually developed so as to include all the mandatory compliance features in the state of Massachusetts and elsewhere. This can remove a lot of the checking and a lot of the hassle normally...
A Basic Guide to How School-Based Medicaid Claiming Works
Local education agencies (LEAs) are continuously looking for ways that they can improve the health and wellbeing of their students; one of these ways is reimbursements made by the school-based Medicaid program. For the children who are eligible for the Medicaid...
How to Automate School-Based Medicaid Claiming
The School-Based Medicaid Program (SBMP) provides an efficient way for healthcare providers to claim reimbursements for the care and services they provide. Designed to facilitate billing for health services related to the educational needs of students, school-based...
Online School Services Is The Perfect COVID-19 Response for Schools and Here’s Why
Although each and every country is at a different point when it comes to COVID-19 infection rates, there are currently more than 1.2 billion children across 186 countries that have been affected by school closures due to the pandemic. This harsh reality has forced a...
Medicaid Billing For Schools in 2019
In the state of Massachusetts, the Medicaid program is administered by MassHealth, which works jointly with the School-Based Medicaid Program (SBMP), and is administered by the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS). Program Overview In the state of...
5 Things You Need to Know About the MassHealth School-Based Medicaid Program
The MassHealth School-Based Medicaid program (SBMP) affords an opportunity for local education agencies to be awarded with federal money that will help to offset the costs for schools which have to provide specific Medicaid-covered services to students. MassHealth is...
School-Based Medicaid Program Expansion in Massachusetts – What You Should Know
The School-Based Medicaid Program (SBMP) provides an opportunity for local education agencies (LEA's) to be reimbursed by the federal government for the coverage of costs associated with providing specific services covered by Medicaid in a school environment. Local...
Which School Health Services are Covered by State Medicaid?
Children who are covered by Medicaid receive affordable and comprehensive health care coverage, to allow them to continue academic pursuits and become successful as adults. More than 30 million young people are currently receiving benefits under this program, and...
CMS rule reversal for Medicaid free care: Will additional reimbursement be on the way for Massachusetts public schools?
Massachusetts public schools participating in school-based Medicaid claiming may soon see a revenue boost thanks to a CMS reversal of its long-standing Medicaid free care rule. This surprising reversal essentially allows schools to bill Medicaid-covered services for...
Public School-Based Medicaid Claiming: Don’t let documentation leave you vulnerable during an audit
Documentation audits seem to be the new norm in healthcare, and public schools participating in Medicaid claiming are likely no exception. Although Medicaid hasn’t yet expanded its audits in this area, it is a possibility this can occur in the future. According to a...
Is School-Based Medicaid Claiming Software worth Purchasing?
The good thing about school-based Medicaid claiming software is that it's usually developed so as to include all the mandatory compliance features in the state of Massachusetts and elsewhere. This can remove a lot of the checking and a lot of the hassle normally...
A Basic Guide to How School-Based Medicaid Claiming Works
Local education agencies (LEAs) are continuously looking for ways that they can improve the health and wellbeing of their students; one of these ways is reimbursements made by the school-based Medicaid program. For the children who are eligible for the Medicaid...
How to Automate School-Based Medicaid Claiming
The School-Based Medicaid Program (SBMP) provides an efficient way for healthcare providers to claim reimbursements for the care and services they provide. Designed to facilitate billing for health services related to the educational needs of students, school-based...
Online School Services Is The Perfect COVID-19 Response for Schools and Here’s Why
Although each and every country is at a different point when it comes to COVID-19 infection rates, there are currently more than 1.2 billion children across 186 countries that have been affected by school closures due to the pandemic. This harsh reality has forced a...
Medicaid Billing For Schools in 2019
In the state of Massachusetts, the Medicaid program is administered by MassHealth, which works jointly with the School-Based Medicaid Program (SBMP), and is administered by the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS). Program Overview In the state of...
5 Things You Need to Know About the MassHealth School-Based Medicaid Program
The MassHealth School-Based Medicaid program (SBMP) affords an opportunity for local education agencies to be awarded with federal money that will help to offset the costs for schools which have to provide specific Medicaid-covered services to students. MassHealth is...
School-Based Medicaid Program Expansion in Massachusetts – What You Should Know
The School-Based Medicaid Program (SBMP) provides an opportunity for local education agencies (LEA's) to be reimbursed by the federal government for the coverage of costs associated with providing specific services covered by Medicaid in a school environment. Local...
Which School Health Services are Covered by State Medicaid?
Children who are covered by Medicaid receive affordable and comprehensive health care coverage, to allow them to continue academic pursuits and become successful as adults. More than 30 million young people are currently receiving benefits under this program, and...
CMS rule reversal for Medicaid free care: Will additional reimbursement be on the way for Massachusetts public schools?
Massachusetts public schools participating in school-based Medicaid claiming may soon see a revenue boost thanks to a CMS reversal of its long-standing Medicaid free care rule. This surprising reversal essentially allows schools to bill Medicaid-covered services for...
Public School-Based Medicaid Claiming: Don’t let documentation leave you vulnerable during an audit
Documentation audits seem to be the new norm in healthcare, and public schools participating in Medicaid claiming are likely no exception. Although Medicaid hasn’t yet expanded its audits in this area, it is a possibility this can occur in the future. According to a...
Is School-Based Medicaid Claiming Software worth Purchasing?
The good thing about school-based Medicaid claiming software is that it's usually developed so as to include all the mandatory compliance features in the state of Massachusetts and elsewhere. This can remove a lot of the checking and a lot of the hassle normally...
A Basic Guide to How School-Based Medicaid Claiming Works
Local education agencies (LEAs) are continuously looking for ways that they can improve the health and wellbeing of their students; one of these ways is reimbursements made by the school-based Medicaid program. For the children who are eligible for the Medicaid...
How to Automate School-Based Medicaid Claiming
The School-Based Medicaid Program (SBMP) provides an efficient way for healthcare providers to claim reimbursements for the care and services they provide. Designed to facilitate billing for health services related to the educational needs of students, school-based...
Online School Services Is The Perfect COVID-19 Response for Schools and Here’s Why
Although each and every country is at a different point when it comes to COVID-19 infection rates, there are currently more than 1.2 billion children across 186 countries that have been affected by school closures due to the pandemic. This harsh reality has forced a...
Medicaid Billing For Schools in 2019
In the state of Massachusetts, the Medicaid program is administered by MassHealth, which works jointly with the School-Based Medicaid Program (SBMP), and is administered by the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS). Program Overview In the state of...
5 Things You Need to Know About the MassHealth School-Based Medicaid Program
The MassHealth School-Based Medicaid program (SBMP) affords an opportunity for local education agencies to be awarded with federal money that will help to offset the costs for schools which have to provide specific Medicaid-covered services to students. MassHealth is...
School-Based Medicaid Program Expansion in Massachusetts – What You Should Know
The School-Based Medicaid Program (SBMP) provides an opportunity for local education agencies (LEA's) to be reimbursed by the federal government for the coverage of costs associated with providing specific services covered by Medicaid in a school environment. Local...
Which School Health Services are Covered by State Medicaid?
Children who are covered by Medicaid receive affordable and comprehensive health care coverage, to allow them to continue academic pursuits and become successful as adults. More than 30 million young people are currently receiving benefits under this program, and...
CMS rule reversal for Medicaid free care: Will additional reimbursement be on the way for Massachusetts public schools?
Massachusetts public schools participating in school-based Medicaid claiming may soon see a revenue boost thanks to a CMS reversal of its long-standing Medicaid free care rule. This surprising reversal essentially allows schools to bill Medicaid-covered services for...
Public School-Based Medicaid Claiming: Don’t let documentation leave you vulnerable during an audit
Documentation audits seem to be the new norm in healthcare, and public schools participating in Medicaid claiming are likely no exception. Although Medicaid hasn’t yet expanded its audits in this area, it is a possibility this can occur in the future. According to a...
