Thursday, October 2, 2014

How Obamacare will impact medical billing in 2015?



How Obamacare will impact medical billing in 2015?

It's now been over four years since the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as "Obamacare", officially went into effect in the United States. However, we are just now learning the wide-ranging impacts the legislation has had on the healthcare industry, and in particular on medical billing in hospitals and doctor's offices throughout the country. While we still don't know the scope of changes that are yet to occur, there are some undeniable trends that seem to be making their way down the pipeline, particularly as we prepare for the oft-mentioned "employee mandate", which, if all goes according to the (often revised) plan, goes into effect in 2015.

Medical Billing Will Increasingly Become Outsourced
Medical billing has never been a particularly popular activity in doctor's offices and in hospitals. Now, with the increasing number of medical coding requirements resulting from the Affordable Care Act, medical professionals are continuing the trend of outsourcing this work to companies that specialize in it. According to a report there has been increase in the US of a growing number of medical professionals who are choosing to outsource medical billing to them.


By 2015, more doctors and hospitals are projected to outsource their medical billing than ever before, in large part thanks to Obamacare and growing administrative costs. The other less discussed (but no less important) consideration is that outsourcing medical billing reduces liability on the hospital or doctor's office.
 

Since 1983 we have been helping physicians to operate practices as a business, over 500 Medicare and Medicaid audits have given us the knowledge to develop the AccuChecker Product Line including Claims Scrubbers and for the 10 years we have been involved in HMOs Risk Management and have developed the MCAR Reports – Managed Care Reports. 

Today we can handle claims file of professional services and perform Forensic Analysis, detect problems and formulate solutions. Experience, confidentiality, the right team plus proven claims scrubbing capabilities make us eligible to analyze any volume of medical claims with decisive results -Government, Commercial & HMOs. 

IN our efforts to turn Medical Practice and Facilities into well organized, automated, and paperless operations, HPP Management Group has spent countless hours researching various solutions for HEDIS, PQRS, Medical Coding and Reimbursement 
 

At HPP Management we assist you and your office staff with the ever changing mazes and complexities that make up the insurance industry. Our innovative solution merges web-based practice management software, electronic medical record, coding, scrubbing and editing software with unparalleled insurance knowledge and comprehensive business services, from eligibility verification, claims submission, insurance collections, appeals, and fair hearings.

Medical Practice Consultant

HPP Management Group has team of professionals medical practice consultant that offer a full range of services to physicians, whether the need is big or small, temporary or  permanent; coding, collection, and A/R management processes, choose or change practice management, electronic medical record systems, obtain strategic and tactical operations consult, help with paying the bills, assistance with risk management planning, personnel issues, payroll, manage care arrangement, etc.

Our Medical Practice Consultant Specialize in:

Ø  Expansion

Ø  Relocation

Ø  Risk Management

Ø  Office Workflow / Structure

Ø  Accounts Payable Management

Ø  Regulatory agency compliance

Ø  Practice Purchase

Ø  Government Programs

Ø  Credential Management

Ø  Practice management protocols

Ø  Insurance contract negotiation

Ø  Fee schedules and Charge-master

Ø  New Practice Start up

Ø  Mergers and Acquisitions

Ø  Forensic Analysis of A/R

Ø  Managed Care, Capitation analysis

Ø  State of the art Technology systems

Ø  Personnel hiring, training, and management

 

Also we can assist IPAs, MSOs and large PCP practices that have Risk Operations for them we developed the MCAR Reports – Managed Care Reports a complete set of management reports that give complete awareness over what is happening with every HMO Plan that our clients are involved with in risk operations. Our services range from just producing MCAR Reports to extending our services assisting our clients in managing risk.

 

 

By:  Paul G. Silverio-Benet
        Director of Operations

 

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
HPP Management Group, Corp.
Developers of the AccuChecker Product Line
Phone: (305) 227-2383


 

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