I’ve been in the revenue cycle/medical billing field for nearly 40 years. I’ve been in leadership or consulting for most of those years. I feel this gives me pretty good perspectives on how things should work. Parker Knight via Compfight There’s no doubt that every year there are some kinds of changes because of insurance […]

Medical billing and medical coding jobs and careers are easy to start, but hard to find work in. For medical billing, it’s hard to get started because physicians already have someone doing their billing for them. For medical coding, entities are often reluctant to bring on someone with no experience. For both, the training and […]

It’s time for someone to stand up for the patient accounting manager, supervisor, director, team leader,… whatever position you happen to occupy at this point, stand up and give yourself a pat on the back from me. If I could, I’d round all of you up and take you all out to lunch at a […]

Just like almost all businesses large enough to have employees pay someone to audit their businesses, hospitals sometimes need to, or should have, someone come in to audit their receivables process. It can involve looking at the charge master or how charges are captured, or a host of other things. This article is specifically going […]

In last week’s article I mentioned that I’d be talking more about revenue codes this week. I touch upon revenue codes twice in a row because, though many people aren’t sure what it is, before I shut down my medical billing website, this was the largest area of concern for visitors and those with questions. […]