Picture this. You’ve just had your appendix removed and your doctor wants to know how you’re doing. Only, he’s not standing at your bedside. He’s three states away at a medical convention and he’s talking to you over his iPad. Through face-to-face video calls on iPads and other tablets, many hospitals are now participating in high-tech communications called “telerounding.” Sometimes by video-chat, sometimes by tweet, and sometimes by plain old e-mail, physicians in many cities are now using smartphones and tablets to make their rounds.
Billing has always been a challenge for medical professionals, and now with new regulations including the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it’s become even more important to get it right. Billing errors can cost practices thousands of dollars every day, but finding the time to address them may be more than an overworked staff can take on, according to Kathy McCoy, MBA. Medicalbillersandcoders.com (MBC) feels it has stepped into the breach to address this problem. Its guide to “Best Billing Practices” allows physicians across all 50 states a way to implement a billing strategy that works for them in this changing healthcare landscape.
I’m probably showing my age but when I wanted information I was uncomfortable asking my parents about, especially health-related, I went to my friends, preferably in some dark, hidden place. But more and more young people today are using smartphones to keep track of their health, according to a story by Milt Freudenheim. According to a website called the Young Invincibles, 39 percent of young people ages 18 to 29 own a smartphone. Freudenheim reports in his story that young adults are, of course, much more likely than older people to have a smartphone and to use it to look for health information.
Many people fear the dentist. But new techniques make it easier and less painful, and Dentist elk grove Ltd. now offers a customer care report on sedation dentistry and implant dentistry, among other new ways dentists are going about their business. Sedation dentistry is used for everything from pulling teeth to cosmetic dentistry. Implants are an artificial device a periodontist places into your jaw to hold a replacement tooth or bridge in place. Dental implants are usually used on people who otherwise are healthy but have lost a tooth or teeth due to periodontal disease, an injury, or some other reason.
Streamline Health Solutions, Inc., a provider of enterprise healthcare content management and business analytics solutions, announced that Einstein Healthcare Network has licensed the company's business analytics solution to “more effectively monitor and drive revenue cycle performance from accounts receivable management to denial recovery.”
“Good management of accounts receivable operations is fundamental to improved cash flow because it can make a big difference — a big difference — in the payments received for services provided and in the financial success of the practice,” wrote Sara S. Lankford, CPA, and Lucy R. Carter, CPA.
