Hacking Healthcare: A Guide to Standards, Workflows, and Meaningful Use

When it is returned electronically, it is more frequently called electronic remittance advice (ERA).

or physician assistant.

Unfortunately we are beginning to see that computerized systems are only a tool to assist in reducing errors, and in all too many scenarios they introduce additional complexity that shifts errors to other areas and personnel rather than actually reducing them.

organize scans of paper charts.

The second aspect of the copay is a compromise between facilities and payers that provides the facility with some

Now let’s return to the question of what the facility charges for a particular intervention represents. That stems first from the facility’s assessment of its own costs: overhead, salaries, and so on. Then they look at what other facilities in their region charge and what payers pay for that action on average. They do some cost shifting from activi

Although a single copy of any given data point is always preferable, this is impossible in any EHR system that has even rudimentary interoperation with other information systems

The codes selected by the providers during the interaction with the patient need to be cleaned up according to very complex rules and procedures defined by insurers or programs such as Medicare. They are then priced according to a number of factors relating to the patient, the insurance carrier, and the specifics of the practice. Then those codes a

That EOB winds its way back through the middle man and is either electronically imported or manually entered into the practice management system for review by the billing department.