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                To get paid, billing services must prioritize the payment and streamline the claims submission process as much as possible.
                
             
            
                    
                
                                    President's Message
                                
                    
                                                    
By Cindy Pittmon, RCC, CHBME, FRBMA
                                            
                    
                 
                It’s an exciting time in our industry as we move into the new Roaring Twenties! Exciting might be an overused adjective, but we should remember there are different sources of excitement: fear, dread, and terror are just as likely to cause excitement as reward, anticipation, and victory. 
                
             
            
                    
                
                                    News from Around HBMA
                                
                Are You Maximizing Your HBMA Membership?; New HBMA Members; CHBME Quiz Questions
                
             
            
                    
                
                                    News from Around HBMA
                                
                8 a.m. Took call from telemarketer offering BPO services.; 8:05 a.m. Had morning coffee with problem employee. They want a raise.
                
             
            
                    
                
                                    Feature Story
                                
                Industry experts share the steps to cleaner claims and increased revenue 
in 2020.
                
             
            
                    
                
                                    Feature Story
                                
                It’s time to enhance our denials management workflows and leverage data analysis to decrease our denial rate, reduce our claim rework dollars, and improve our insurance payment velocity.
                
             
            
                    
                
                                    Feature Story
                                
                It’s critical to understand the ever-changing compliance landscape and know how to guide and advise your clients to select the right MIPS partner.
                
             
            
                    
                
                                    Compliance Issues
                                
                Occasionally, questions of whether or not a request for records from law enforcement meets HIPAA requirements comes up. Consider the following scenario....
                
             
            
                    
                
                                    Coding Corner
                                
                Over the last 20 years of training, teaching, and auditing coding/documentation, critical care is the most talked about, questioned, and, at times, confusing code captured. 
                
             
            
                    
                
                                    Software Talk
                                
                    
                                                    
By Nate Moore, CPA, MBA, FACMPE
                                            
                    
                 
                Eight years ago, one my earliest articles for RCM Advisor (this publication was then called Billing) was an introduction to the IF function in Excel. IF is a powerful way to add conditional logic to your spreadsheet.
                
             
            
                    
                
                                    From the Road
                                
                As we embark on another year, it is a great time to step back, catch our breath, and take a hard look at our businesses. It may be a cliché to say that the older we get the faster time seems to speed by – when I was a child, a day seemed an eternity – but it’s true.