Optometry billing is different than billing for most medical practices. Eye care can either be covered by normal insurance plans or specialized vision plans. As all optometrists know, in the United …
Revenue from a medical patient is not collected immediately after an appointment is done and the patient walks out the door. Unfortunately, getting paid for a medical service is not so simple. The …
Third-party payers have been increasingly wedging in between the patient and doctor relationship for the past 10-15 years. Overhead costs and fewer reimbursements from payers are making it more and …
During their annual meeting in June, the American Medical Association (AMA) voted in favor for a 2-year grace period for practices rolling out new medical coding systems. As you may have heard, the …
Over the past couple of years optometry billing mistakes and blatant fraud have become more and more common. Last year an Oklahoma optometrist was being sued by the state after his business …
Imagine the headache of keeping track of patient medical records. It used to be all paper, then it moved to computer files and paper, now electronic health records (EHR) have made it possible for …
