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Revenue & Reimbursement: Insurance
Working With Insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, and Self-pay

Keeping your practice profitable has become more challenging, but by learning how physicians get paid, and deciding which mode is best for you, you can improve your chances of success.

This course covers:

  • How physicians get paid through Medicare, Medicaid, commercial (private) insurance, and self-pay arrangements
  • How best to evaluate what plans the practice should participate in
  • Best practices and lessons for collecting effectively from third-party payers and patients
  • Programs that enable physicians to improve payments, and the important principles behind accountable care operations and episode-based payment initiatives
  • Quality Reporting System penalties and e-prescribing penalties from Medicare
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5 CHAPTERS
How Physicians Get Paid
How physicians get paid through Medicare, Medicaid, commercial (private) insurance, and self-pay arrangements.
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Ways to Increase Fee Income
Several current programs provide the ability to improve payments to primary care, by rewarding efficiency and overall cost effectiveness.
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Deciding Which Plans to Participate In
Evaluate which plans your practice should participate in as an in-network physician and which plans should be considered out-of-network.
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Collecting Effectively From Third-Party Payers and Patients
Best practices and lessons for collecting effectively from third-party payers and patients
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Considering an All-Cash Practice or a Concierge Practice
As collecting money from payers gets increasingly difficult, many physicians are considering changing to an all-cash practice.
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AUTHORS
Judith N. Aburmishan, MBA, CPA, CHBC
Healthcare Practice Management Consultant, Chicago, Illinois
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PHYSICIAN BUSINESS ACADEMY

Medscape Physician Business Academy is designed to help all physicians, employed and self-employed as well as new and more established practicing physicians, become successful in their medical practice and career by providing the essential business information that most medical schools and residency programs don't teach.

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Medscape Physicians Business Academy course content is provided for educational and information purposes only. If you have particular questions or concerns relating to your practice you should consult the appropriate legal, financial or other expert.