Best Practices for Medicaid and Medicare Enrollment
Navigating the Medicaid and Medicare enrollment process is a critical step for health care providers seeking a broad…
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December 3, 2024
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October 29, 2024
Why it’s Simpler for Health Care Organizations to Outsource Payer and Entity Enrollment
Managing new entity and payer enrollment with payers can be a complex, time-consuming process for health care organizations.…
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August 6, 2024
How to Start a Private Medical Practice: A Comprehensive Guide and Checklist
Starting a private medical practice takes time, effort and considerable preparation. Developing a comprehensive business plan and establishing…
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March 26, 2024
Increase Revenue and Quality of Care by Outsourcing Provider Data Management
The importance of data management in health care environments can’t be overstated. Especially during complicated processes like credentialing,…
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January 19, 2024
How a 1099 Physician Pays Taxes and How It Compares to W2
Transitioning from filing taxes as an employed physician with a Form W2 to becoming a self-employed or contractor…
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September 5, 2023
Tax Deductions for Self-Employed Physicians Filing Form 1099
Making the transition from a W2 to a 1099 filer as a physician can unlock significant tax deductions…
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May 9, 2023
Illinois License Renewal Fees Waived for Frontline Health Care Workers – How Health Care Facilities Can Capitalize
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker announced plans to waive licensing fees for frontline health care workers during fiscal years…
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May 2, 2023
End of COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Brings Changes for Rural Health Clinics (RHCs)
The Biden Administration has announced that the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) will end on May 11, which…
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January 17, 2023
Why Outsource Provider Enrollment and Credentialing?
Why would a health care organization consider outsourcing provider enrollment or credentialing? Health care providers must complete the…
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January 10, 2023
Beware These Red Flags in Hospital Physician Credentialing
Hospital credentialing of physicians is partly an application and document-gathering procedure, but just as important is the investigative…
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January 3, 2023
Outdated Insurance Provider Directories Could Force Refunds for Out-of-Network Care
The No Surprises Act aims to prevent patients from facing exorbitant and unexpected medical billing, but it’s also…
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November 9, 2022
What is Credentialing? Inside the Complicated Health Insurance Plan Enrollment Process
The federally-mandated process of vetting medical professionals can be cumbersome for health care organizations. It’s known by several…
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October 19, 2022
Anders Partners with Fifth Avenue to Provide Streamlined Credentialing and Provider Enrollment Process in Missouri and Illinois
Anders is expanding our partnership with Fifth Avenue Healthcare Services (Fifth Avenue) to offer a streamlined, outsourced credentialing…
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January 25, 2022
Sequester Cuts Act Extended – What Changes Health Care Providers Can Expect to See
Congress passed the Protecting Medicare and American Farmers from Sequester Cuts Act at the end of 2021, introducing…
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September 24, 2021
PRF Updates for Health Care Providers: Phase 1 Reporting Deadline Grace Period and New $25.5 Billion Phase 4
The CARES Act Provider Relief Fund (PRF) was introduced to offer financial relief through direct payments for healthcare…
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August 7, 2020
Provider Relief Fund Grants Offer COVID Relief for Health Care Organizations
The CARES Act Provider Relief Fund is designed to support American families, workers, and healthcare providers in the…
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August 4, 2020
Will Telehealth Services Continue Beyond COVID-19?
There is no doubt the COVID-19 pandemic has rocked the American healthcare industry. Organizations have had to quickly…
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April 3, 2020
CMS Offers Accelerated and Advance Medicare Payments for Physicians, Providers and Suppliers
As part of the CARES Act, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is authorizing accelerated and…
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October 31, 2019
Data Breaches in Hospitals are on the Rise – How Health Care Organizations Can Prevent Cybersecurity Attacks
The health care industry is one of the biggest targets for cybersecurity attacks. In 2018 alone, nearly 300…
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August 27, 2019
Are Physicians Exempt from Sales and Use Tax in Missouri and Illinois?
Many physicians are aware that the medical services they provide are typically exempt from sales tax. However, the…
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July 23, 2019
Optimize the Revenue Cycle to Increase Profit without Adding Patients
Some health care organizations believe that increasing the number of patients walking through the doors is the surest…
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May 7, 2019
Making the Move from Volume to Value-Based Physician Compensation
Physician compensation models are evolving to keep up with the new quality metrics defined by the Medicare Access…
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February 21, 2019
CMS Creates Pathways to Success for ACOs Starting July 1, 2019
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is taking a new direction with the Medicare Shared Savings…
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January 14, 2019
CMS Offers New Price Transparency Tool for Medicare Procedures
As price transparency continues to be a main priority in the health care industry, the Centers for Medicare…
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October 30, 2018
Fiscal-year Corporations Subject to Blended Tax Rates Following Tax Reform
The new 21% corporate tax rate allows C corporations to pay federal taxes at a significantly lower tax…
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September 11, 2018
Tax Reform for Businesses: Tax Rates and AMT for C-Corporations
There has been a lot of buzz about tax reform changes and how they will affect companies in…
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January 9, 2018
How Hospitals Qualify for Not-for-Profit Tax-Exempt Status
To qualify as a not-for-profit, tax-exempt hospital, there are a number of requirements that must be followed under…
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December 20, 2017
MIPS 2018: Virtual Groups for Solo or Small Practices
Medicare’s final rule provides a new opportunity for solo practitioners and small groups to join together and report…
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May 24, 2017
Determining MIPS Eligibility with the CMS Look-up Tool
Clinicians have been waiting to find out if they are eligible for the new Merit-Based Incentive Payment System…
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May 24, 2017
House Votes to Repeal Obamacare
The U.S. House of Representatives recently voted 216 to 211 to pass a bill to repeal and replace…
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April 14, 2017
Rural Health Clinics Services Sheet
Now more than ever, health care today is a balancing act. It’s about employees, technology, reimbursements, regulations, reform…
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February 21, 2017
MACRA Quality Payment Program Guide
The Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) is a Quality Payment Program that will affect…
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September 14, 2016
Closing the Documentation Gaps in Your EHR
Documenting accurate health care data is important to both practitioners and patients, because as we’ve all heard, “if…
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August 2, 2016
MACRA, MIPS, and RHC: How Quality-Based Payments Will Affect Health Care Reimbursement
To replace the repealed sustainable growth rate payment methodology, CMS has proposed a new quality-based payment structure called…
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June 14, 2016
Assessing Your Health Care Practice’s Needs for Outsourcing
While every practice seems to have those employees that can seemingly “do it all,” it is likely there…
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April 26, 2016
Bundled Payments Lead to Higher Quality of Coordinated Care for Physicians
The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative (BPCI) was launched from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation…
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