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New Evaluation and Coding Changes for 2021

by Casey Squicquero, Billing Support Group Manager, RevCycle Partners Rather than using history, examination, medical decision-making and time to determine the level of E/M service, like providers have always used, the update to the E/M coding guidelines will be determined ...
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6 Vexing Insurance Billing Questions

By Christine Schneider, VP of Operations If you’re an insurance biller for an optometry practice, you’re a master problem solver. Each patient is unique, their needs and their coverage. But even the most experienced billers run into vexing billing questions ...
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Embracing Outsourcing as a Strategy

Is it time to rethink your strategy now that you are reopened? When it comes to outsourcing your optometry office’s functions, it’s natural to look only at the direct costs. You analyze your in-house staff wages. And then compare them ...
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Advances in Improving Your AR

How we are changing our aging claims process to fight your insurance battles. by Melissa Jacobson, Operations Manager of RevCycle Partners Transparency translates to accountability. And accountability translates to better service. That is why we are improving our aging claims ...
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How to Account for a Medicare Pre-Payment

by: Christine Schneider, Vice President

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Update on Medicare Reimbursement for Telemedicine Visits

What You Need to Know about the Recent Changes by: Christine Schneider, Vice President In these unprecedented and difficult times, we want to help you as you navigate the changes in what Medicare will reimburse. Click on the link below ...
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Avoid Billing Detours for Co-Managing Cataract Care

3 Essentials for proper insurance billing. by: Melissa Jacobson, Operations Manager Co-managing cataract care with ophthalmologists is one way you can provide continuity of care to patients before and after surgery. But the logistics of transfer of care can be ...
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2 ODs Share Their Struggles with Benefits and Eligibility Verification

Why you need a system to improve AR and patient care. Gather a group of optometrists to talk about the challenges of operating an eye care practice, and benefits and eligibility verification will likely crop up. Docs know they should ...
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Growing Practice. Growing Pains.

A case study about the benefits of outsourcing your credentialing. By Jon Kettner The Pain: A large optometry practice—with multiple locations, more than 20 providers, and spanning two states—was growing faster than its half-day credentialing specialist could keep up with ...
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Changes to Medicare in 2020

What you need to know about member IDs, deductibles, and Medigap plans. by Christine Schneider Billing Medicare can be dizzying work because of the multiple updates to policies from year to year, and sometimes even from month to month. In ...
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Cross Your Credentialing T’s and I’s

Make note of these important changes to credentialing for 2020. By Jon Kettner For many optometry practices, the new year is a time when practices ask, “What are my growth goals?” Growth, of course, is tied to healthy revenue cycle ...
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Coordinating Benefits for Your Eye Care Practice – 3 Easy Steps

For a better practice – and better patient care. by Christine Schneider, VP of RevCycle Partners Coordinating benefits is complicated. Optometrists have to deal with coordinating medical and VSP benefits. Here are a few guidelines for coordinating benefits for your ...
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Billing Medicare and Medicaid

A start-to-finish process. by Christine Schneider, VP of RevCycle Partners Billing Medicare and Medicaid can be a messy process. If not handled correctly, it can affect payment and even patients—who might be billed more than expected. There are multiple pain ...
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Will Outsourcing Your Billing Really Improve Your Cash Flow?

Questions to ask to determine if it will benefit your eye care practice. In “The Review of Optometric Business,” Peter J. Cass, OD claims that you could improve the cash flow of your optometry practice by outsourcing your billing. But ...
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How to Make Your Eye Care Practice More Efficient

Tips to cut time spent on administrative work and insurance obstacles. Staying on top of administrative tasks and insurance billing is key to making your eye care practice more efficient. And that means you’ll likely more profitable. There are a ...
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How to Release a Patient from Your Optometric Care

8 tips to ensure you are protected from liability. If you’re wondering how to release a patient from your optometric care, you’re not alone. It is a weighty decision. And it should be handled with extreme care. As the AOA’s ...
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Do You Have Time to Be Present with Your Patients?

An essayist discusses the challenge of making more time for face-to-face interaction in a tech era. Staying on top of your optometry practice’s details–whether filling out electronic records or tending to details related to insurance billing and credentialing–has a way ...
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6 Optometry Practice Billing Mistakes

Paying attention to the details can increase your bottom line. by Christine Schneider, VP of RevCycle Partners Insurance billing is all about the details. Optometry practice billing mistakes can lead to a time-crushing, cash-sucking mistake. All billers—even the best of ...
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pay up front policy for eye care practices

Don’t Wait to Get Paid

How a “Pay Up Front Policy” Can Benefit Your Eye Care Practice by Christine Schneider, VP of RevCycle Partners Do you have a pay-up-front policy? Or do you wait until you receive your patient’s Explanation of Benefits (EOB)? You might ...
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Take the Pain Out of Credentialing

How Eye Care Professionals Benefit from CAQH No doubt you are aware of CAQH (the Council For Affordable Quality Healthcare). It is the go-to data bank for storing health care provider information. Providers grant access to their information to insurance ...
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