Recorded Webinar: Why Our Live Medical Billing Training is Vital to Your Success
MGMA: HIPAA 5010 conversion causing payment headaches
Many medical offices are struggling with older technology and the changes being mandated by the government are proving quite a challenge with regards to compliance and being able to maintain a high reimbursement rate for the doctors. The American Business Systems Medical Billing Software is web-based, meaning, we handle all the updates to the system that the government requires. This means that doctors using our system have much less to worry about when the government instructs them to make changes. Not to mention our medical billing training program can put you into the industry, helping doctors make more money while you make money.
The new Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) transaction standard is causing practices major payment disruptions, according to a letter from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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Confidence in small practices climbs
Nearly half of physicians in practices with six or fewer doctors report that their practice is doing better this year than last year at this time, according to survey results published by an electronic health record (EHR) company.
Our medical billing training program can show you how to help small practices maximize their cash flow, and minimize time spent not practicing medicine.
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Recorded Webinar: Interview with Licensee Rene Hermes
Click below to watch yesterday’s interview with American Business Systems licensee Rene Hermes. Rene talks about how our medical billing training program helped him start his own business.
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Google skips WebMD, starts showing you medical conditions that match your symptoms
Google hasn’t gotten out of the medical and EMR market completely. Still think CD-based software has a place in the industry? Today’s market requires web based, mobile platforms, like iClaim, what we teach in our medical billing training program.
If you’ve ever had a really bad headache or back problem, you might have surfed over to WebMD to see if you can find possible medical issues related to your symptoms. Googling symptoms tends to return a bunch of Yahoo! Answer pages and some WebMD landing pages, so Google realized that… Click here to read the rest of this article.
Recorded Webinar: Why our iClaim System is Superior to Server Based Software
What is the HITECH Act?
A lot of people are already what the HITECH Act is all about these days. For those who are not familiar with the term, HITECH stands for Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health which is part of the American Recovery and Investment Act as stated by the U.S Congress in 2009. This act requires medical establishments to adopt make use of the Electronic Health Records where their deadline falls in the year 2019.
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Recorded Webinar: How to Get Doctors to Outsource Their Billing, Interview with Tierni Martens
Employment Gains as U.S. Health Care Eclipses Manufacturing
Health care — including doctors, nurses and hospitals — was the largest contributor to employment growth in the past two years, with a 22 percent share that was almost twice as big as manufacturing. The U.S. workforce could use the boost: Monthly payroll gains are running below what’s required to reduce significantly the 8.5 percent jobless rate. Unemployment was 5 percent in December 2007, when the recession began.
This growth also includes the middle man (or woman), people who process on the billing and accounts receivables side of things. American Business Systems licensees who graduate our medical billing training course are able to run their own business, set their own hours, and typically work from home. All while profiting from the healthcare growth figures mentioned in the article below.
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