5 Tips for Improving Anesthesia Billing Practice

Medical practices face complex challenges in order to maintain a healthy bottom line. Billing for anesthesia services can be even more complicated. These particular challenges can be overcome by monitoring and streamlining the advanced processes involved in maximizing...

IT Costs for ACO Launch Start at $1 Million

  According to a survey by Black Book, a market research company, the data requirements to launch an accountable care organization (ACO) will cost smaller organizations more than $1 million and the larger ones upwards of $4 million before they begin operations....

Meaningful Use of EHR: How to Make the Grade

Over the next three years, meaningful use policy will be instituted in stages, and medical providers are required to prove their qualification or face penalties as early as 2015. While these penalties, or “adjustments,” are over two years away, the time for...