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9 Reasons Why Your Practice Needs Medical Record Audit

No matter how much of a tedious task it may seem, the audit of medical records is in the best interests of the practice. It can save physicians and medical billing services from clinical documentation disasters. An audit prevents the billing system from inconsistencies and helps put measures in place to safeguard the system from malicious viruses and unauthorized access. Many errors can be avoided only via a medical record audit. The sustainability of a successful medical billing and coding system thus relies heavily on the accuracy of medical records, and medical record audit helps to maintain that. Why Should Medical Billing Services Audit Records At Least Once a Year? A medical billing company ensures the confidentiality and accuracy of the medical information. If a practice is not performing well financially, there might be a problem in the billing system or medical records. Professional billing auditing companies like P3Care never compromise on risk analysis. Therefore, o

Telehealth Billing on the Rise: Will It Survive After the Pandemic

If one good thing came out of this pandemic, it is the rise of Telehealth services in primary care. Medical billing services had to modify their billing structure to include Telehealth billing services to their manual. As a result, they have to work for their client payments, in which their expertise is tested the most. The boost in the Telehealth sector is not just an estimation but based on a data a report issued by HHS (The US Department of Health and Human Services). Digging deeper into the analysis of this report shows us that Telehealth visits per week increased from 2,000 to 1.28 million. Moreover, Medicare spending in this sector went up from 0.1% to 43.5% from February to April 2020. Meanwhile, the in-person visits dropped significantly with a rise in mid-April to May 2020. Since life is going back to what it was before the pandemic, we see a rise in in-person numbers and they are almost leveling up with the Telehealth visits.  However, the rate is still lower tha