Performance Analytics: What Billing Can Tell You

July 04, 2011 | Feature

Medical billing is the process of translating a physician’s work into reimbursable language understood by governmental and private third-party payors. The billing process must start with the physician’s documentation of patient encounters, which forms the basis for billing. The physician’s documentation is then translated into a... Read More »

Business Intelligence Packs A Punch With Payors

January 31, 2011 | Reporting Performance

Improvement of commercial-payor contracts can result in significant revenue gains and better contracts for medical groups, with radiology practices among them. Successfully negotiating such deals, however—and optimizing them to include financial dividends—necessitates that actionable business intelligence be brought to the bargaining table.

Douglas G. Smith,... Read More »