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We have added a new page to our website for videos about us or ones that we have produced. Our first video features our CEO, Buddy Claborn, speaking of the benefits of our new database platform. We have posted before about the Cache database and how its mix of speed, reliability, and accessibility make it the database of choice for medical billing companies and medical practices. Now you can hear it for yourself by going to the About Us page and going to the Videos link, or you can just click here.

We have a new partner as of June of this year. Capario is a leading provider of revenue cycle management solutions, connecting healthcare payers and providers nationwide. Our clients will now have access to Capario’s network of more than 4,000 payers on a single, highly configurable web portal for real-time communication throughout their revenue cycle. With Capario, our providers will be able to automate billing and follow-up processes through online claims submission and correction, eligibility verification, electronic remittances, claims and denial management tools, and business-intelligence reporting.

The healthcare industry is currently facing the prospect of great change in the way things are done. Laws and regulations are shifting drastically in the way healthcare is delivered as well as how it is financed. While experts are debating how the fundamental changes in law will affect the structure of healthcare as we know it, no one really knows how the industry will adapt.

For almost all of the nearly thirty years we have been in business we have relied on the D3 database as a platform for our medical billing software. Over this time many companies have promised a similar solution, but they were never able to meet our standards. Compared to the newcomers, D3 remained better at speed, data integrity, and having a solid multi-value environment to work in.

The CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) announced that additional federal matching funds will be given to four states (NJ, LA, MN, &MD) to help implement the electronic health record incentive program. This incentive program was established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and is very important in developing a strong U.S. health information infrastructure.

For today's Anesthesia physician, there is so much to accomplish within the administrative office. Keeping abreast of all the new medical coding requirements. Billing and collecting enough to stay profitable. Instituting, upgrading and perfecting electronic billing processes. Finding ways to stay compliant with the new HIPAA privacy and security standards without completely disrupting your office and re-designing most of your processes. Recent surveys show that completing paperwork on each anesthesia patient is estimated to take an average of 30 minutes per patient.

The term "medical billing" refers to the process of submitting medical claims to medical insurance companies so that doctors or other healthcare providers can receive payment for services rendered.

If you are reading this because you are shopping around to get into the medical billing industry, we have two things to say to you. First, congratulations, medical billing can be a rewarding and profitable career. Welcome to the industry, and be sure to contact us and let us know what your needs are.

04/06/10: CMS Announces Series of Nationwide RAC 101 Calls. The subject matter of the RAC conference calls will be RAC 101. They will be presented by CMS staff. The content on each call will not change drastically. The RAC operational process will be discussed and there will be a question and answer session held at the end.

We now have a reseller contract with Alpha II, a leader in healthcare coding, compliance, and reimbursement. Alpha II’s ClaimStaker claims scrubber application will be offered to our healthcare customer base which includes providers in radiology, cardiology, neurology, and other office based practices.