Medical Billing Software Blog

• Five Critical Benchmarks For the Effective Medical Practice
  Friday, August 28, 2009   |   Practice Management
   By Sue KayRunning an efficient, effective and profitable medical practice has never been more challenging. As an office manager or practice administrator, you have many responsibilities including:    Establishing office policies;Conducting staff meetings;Hiring, evaluating and possibly terminating employees;Payroll;Supervising non-clinical office employees such as front desk personnel,…
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• ICD-9 Billing Codes Moving to ICD-10 Format On October 1...2013
  Friday, August 14, 2009   |   AcuBase and Trigram Stuff, Practice Management
  We occasionally get questions (or comments) from AcuBase Pro users who tell us about upcoming regulatory issues as they relate to medical practices and billing.  One such call came to remind us that codes for diagnosis were changing from our current ICD-9 format to ICD-10…
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• Why Backing Up Your Data is a Critical Part of Your Business
  Friday, August 07, 2009   |   AcuBase and Trigram Stuff, Practice Management
  Throughout the ages, people have set aside, hidden, or otherwise protected their most valuable assets ‘just in case.’  Whether it’s in a safe, under the mattress, or in a bank safe deposit box, knowing that you have your most valuable stuff in the safest place…
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• How Mandatory Electronic Claims Submission Affects Us
  Friday, July 31, 2009   |   AcuBase and Trigram Stuff, Practice Management
   How Mandatory Electronic Claims Submission Affects UsBy Alice ScottRecently the state of Minnesota mandated that all medical claims are sent electronically by July 15, 2009. If you are not from Minnesota, you may not feel that this affects you, but it does. It affects us…
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• Cost Per Patient and Practitioner Quality of Life
  Friday, July 24, 2009   |   Practice Management
  By Jason Luban, L.Ac.Founder and Chief Developer, Trigram Software LLC As a practitioner, I know that it’s often difficult to know how much is enough--just how much revenue is enough to feel comfortable that you are actually practicing medicine for a living.  There are many ways of…
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• Instant Return on Investment (ROI) with AcuBase Pro
  Friday, July 17, 2009   |   AcuBase and Trigram Stuff, Practice Management
  By Jason A. Luban, L.Ac.Founder and Chief Geek, Trigram Software LLC Few things are more frustrating to me as a practitioner than having a full schedule, perhaps even a waiting list, and then watching as several patients last-minute cancel or no-show altogether. The experience can make…
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• Powerful Words for Marketing Your Practice
  Wednesday, July 08, 2009   |   Practice Management
  by Honora Wolfe (reposted with permission.  Honora’s bio may be found at the end of this post, and she may also be reached through her website at http://www.bluepoppy.com).There are some words that are more powerful than others in the effective writing of ad copy of…
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• Dealing with Vista Issues and AcuBase
  Friday, June 12, 2009   |   AcuBase and Trigram Stuff
  We’ve noticed that, on some Vista machines, Backups do not retain data, and/or moving files for Updates will not work (files will not copy/paste to the Update folder).  Here are some suggestions…Unless AcuBase is set to run as an administrator, Vista places all data files into…
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• Are there new diagnosis or procedure codes for 2009 or 2010? Do I need to buy new ICD-9 or CPT books?
  Thursday, April 09, 2009   |   Practice Management
  For 2009, there are between 30 and 40 new diagnosis (ICD-9) codes for the diagnosis of pain and headaches, and three new procedure (CPT) codes for injections.  For more on the details of these codes, we recommend an article from Acupuncture Today, which may be…
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• Be Aware of Legal Guidelines for Medical Collections
  Friday, May 09, 2008   |   Practice Management
  Every medical and dental practice has to deal with patients who do not pay. If it doesn’t deal with such patients, the costs will simply be passed on to other patients - the practice may simply suffer or fold.   Yet the very real dental…
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