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Even before the pandemic, many primary care providers were struggling with unsustainable practice costs and burnout. COVID-19’s disruption of the healthcare delivery system, however, poses additional challenges to primary care. According to a recent survey, facilities must adapt to shifting workflows, implementing new billing and coding practices, and building platforms for telehealth services—all while dealing […]
A/R aging reports help you gauge your facility’s health. They serve as a barometer for measuring your performance—whether you are making money or not. Specifically, your monthly reports show you whether insurance pays your claims on time and if insurance providers pay you accordingly. Your A/R reports also reveal more than just “payments due to […]
The newly enacted American Rescue Plan centers on the ongoing battle against the COVID-19 pandemic and rebuilding the economy amidst the public health crisis. This means that the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan will impact hospitals and other primary healthcare providers fighting the virus and have implications for health systems, including new coverage policies. With […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently increased Medicare’s reimbursement rates for hospitals, pharmacies, physicians, and others for administering COVID-19 vaccines. These changes by CMS are in support of the administration’s efforts to ensure that all Americans can be vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon as possible. The pandemic has certainly resulted in rapid […]
Medical billing can be a challenging responsibility for many medical facilities that don’t have access to the necessary skills and manpower required to perform these tasks efficiently. Even if in-house employees can do an excellent job contributing to the organization’s success, these individuals may often lack the time and availability to keep up with the […]
By Allison Bloom, Director of Coding Operations, and Lisa Messina, Corporate Compliance Officer, FQHC Division of Coronis Health The COVID pandemic has had tremendous emergent impact upon medical care, testing, and supplies. In response, the AMA’s CPT Editorial Panel has had to rapidly create and establish new CPT codes for COVID reporting, tracking, and analysis […]
From electronic health records and practice management to medical billing services and patient engagement, you can expect a seamless experience with a software agnostic approach. At Coronis Health, we do not confine ourselves to just one billing software. Our team is expertly familiar with all the major systems and trains on new ones as they […]
The American Hospital Association (AHA) surveyed more than 200 hospitals and health systems in 2019 to explore how commercial health plans employed utilization management practices for patients and providers. AHA found that 89% of the respondents have experienced an increase in claims denials over the past three years. 51% of them even described such increase […]
For decades, healthcare providers have voiced their issues with the growing amount of data entry required for Evaluation and Management (E/M) visits. Some have even complained about spending twice as much time on the documentation process related to caring for patients. For the first time in almost 30 years, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid […]
Now that we have approved and recommended COVID-19 vaccines (Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna), it’s time to execute the correct medical billing and coding strategy to sustain the country’s vaccination efforts properly. These medical codes were nonexistent a year ago. Still, since we face a global pandemic, healthcare practitioners must quickly adapt to these new guidelines to […]
