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What is Capitation?

The payments which are used by managed care organizations to control and manage health care costs are known as Capitation Payments. These payments control use of health care resources by putting the physician at financial risk for services given to patients. Similarly, managed care organizations measure the rates of resource utilization in the physician practices in order to ensure that patients don’t get suboptimal care through under-utilization of health care services. These reports are made […]

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HCFA 1500

The HCFA 1500 form is considered to be professional paper claims form which is utilized by physicians and other medical service providers to submit claims for payment from Medicare carriers. The HCFA 1500 claim form enables the medical facilities to submit the health insurance claims to insurance carriers like Medicare and Medicaid; this form can be sent electronically. This form needs a lot of vital information about personal patient and insurance policy. The Centers of Medicare &

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How to Bill Under a Group Practice?

Many times significant queries are raised about the billing for providers who are working for a group. Here, it is integral to understand not just the difference between the rendering provider NPI and the billing provider NPI, but also how the provider is set up with each and every insurance carrier. Well, it is not easy enough to put rendering provider’s individual NPI in the rendering provider NPI box, which is the box 24J on the CMS

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Billing Tips for Non-Credentialed Providers

NONCREDENTIALED PROVIDERS When a new or established provider has not been credentialed by an insurance company, it is believed to be the most common situation. This usually happens when a provider is employed straight out of residency or from another practice (in- or out-of-state). The query is also raised when a practice has merged (needing a new tax ID for that practice) or has added a new practice location. The credentialing providers has become a

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Certified Urgent Care Criteria

Facilities will receive a Certification of Category 1 or Category 2 depending on their staffing model: Category 1 = licensed physician (MD/DO) on site during all posted hours of operation Category 2 = licensed provider (MD/DO or NP/PA) on site during all posted hours of operation (mixed models) All facilities, regardless of staffing model, must meet or exceed all of the minimum criteria below. Facility must accept and advertise that walk-in patients of all ages

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