SOUND OFF! TOPIC: The Publications Committee will be distributing a survey in 2015 to find out how the Affordable Care Act has impacted HBMA members. What questions would you like us to include in this survey? What percent of your clients accept/participate in the insurance exchange plans (i.e., "Obamacare" plans)? < 5%, 5-10%, 10-20%, 20-30%, 30-50%, > 50% What percent of their overall insurance mix are made up of these plans? < 1%, 1-5%, 5-10%, 10-20%, > 20%? Has the amount of Medicaid patients increased for your clients since ACA? Y/N – Mick Polo, NCDS Medical Billing 1. How many billing services are having potential clients call who only want to use a service that will bill off the practice’s EHR instead of using the billing service PM system – even if we know the PM system is difficult to use? 2. How many PM systems are billing companies using concurrently, as opposed to several years ago? 3. What new types of services (besides billing and revenue cycle management) are billing companies now offering over the past two years? 4. Are you having to pick up different types of clients than you would have taken years ago? – Karen B. Linsteadt, Med Group Billings & Collections, Inc. 1. How and why have the new insurance plans under the health insurance exchanges made things more difficult or less difficult for you and/or your patients? 2. What are your financial impacts from the health insurance exchanges? (For example, additional contractual discounts but little additional income due to higher deductibles or vice versa; increased administrative costs due to reporting and/or insurance benefit verification) – Pam Marshall, Billing Director, Encompass Medical Partners next SOUND OFF! Give Us Your Opinion: TOPIC FOR NEXT MONTH: IN OUR READER SURVEY, WE HEARD FROM MANY OF YOU THAT YOU WANTED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT BENCHMARKING. SO WE WANT TO KNOW: WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR BENCHMARKS? We’re looking for your opinion. Please send responses to the email address listed below or scan the QR code at right with your smartphone! EMAIL soundoff@hbma.org by Wednesday, April 8, 2015 6 HBMA BILLING • MARCH.APRIL.2015 NEWLY MINTED MEMBERS Heather Bollman Sentinel Health • Glen Burnie, Maryland Suzanne Fort Straightline Medical Billing • Wilmington, North Carolina Thomas John HealthPay Inc. • Irving, Texas Pam Long ACCESS Receivables Management • Hunt Valley, Maryland
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