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RBMA eNews: MMP Renews Gold Sponsorship with RBMA – 12/17/2009
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The Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) is pleased to announce that Medical Management Professionals (MMP) has renewed its Gold level sponsorship commitment for 2010. MMP has been a supporter and sponsor of RBMA since 2008.
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MMP Coordinates Client Meeting with Congressman to Discuss Healthcare Issues– Pictured in the photo from left to right are: L. Nicholas Richmond, MD, Randal Roat,
Edward W. Stilwill, MD, Congressman Camp, C. David Phelps, MD,
Steven C. Hodges, MD,
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Radiology Business Journal: Managing the Revenue Cycle, featuring Dr. Sheri Jordan – 12/01/2009
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Viewing revenue-cycle management as a function limited only to billing is shortsighted at best, and is more likely to be a mistake. Revenue-cycle management affects the entire practice, imaging center, and hospital radiology department, from a new patient’s first inquiry (whether made by telephone, through an online portal, or in person) to the receipt of payment for services rendered.
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Coding Edge Magazine: Stop Struggling with Critical Care Coding, by Ron Stunz, MD, FACEP - 12/01/2009
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The core requirement defining emergency medicine as a specialty is the ability to carry out critical interventions for patients with organ- or life-threatening illness and injury. Timely interventions in severe infectious, ischemic, traumatic, surgical, and other emergent scenarios have a direct impact on a patient’s outcome. Not so obviously—but only slightly less importantly in the climate of rising and scrutinized health care costs—what is done within the first hour of a patient’s presentation can significantly reduce downstream costs for care.
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| Coding Edge Magazine: Common Documentation and Coding Errors Undermine Anesthesiology Reimbursement, by Pam Linton, CPC- 12/24/2009 |
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With reimbursement pressures continuing to grow, ensuring that anesthesia groups collect every dollar they are entitled to has never been more important. Fortunately, this task is made easier if anesthesia groups take steps to reduce or eliminate common documentation and coding mistakes. Reducing errors requires a detailed, up-to-date understanding of anesthesia coding, a working knowledge of anatomy and open channels of communication between coders and physicians. A process that allows coders to follow-up with physicians on specific case questions and also offers real-time feedback regarding incomplete or inaccurate documentation can go a long way toward strengthening the anesthesia revenue cycle.
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RadCast: MMP Lands MVP Award in Coding and Reimbursement Category - 11/10/2009
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Medical Management Professionals, Inc. (MMP), a national firm providing billing and practice management services to hospital-based physicians, was named a winner in RT Image’s 2009 Most Valuable Product (MVP) awards program.
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| RT Image Magazine: RT Image’s MVP – Readers choose radiology’s most valuable products and services – 10/05/2009 |
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With its combination of technologies, processes, personnel, and quality assurance, the proprietary Velocity Billing system can materially improve the revenue streams of physician groups in radiology and other specialty areas. It identifies and efficiently addresses
essential billing principles commonly overlooked by physician groups or their current billing
service providers.
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Emergency Physicians Monthly: How to Defend Your Salary by John Holstein – 10/01/2009
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As politicians and interest groups jockey for position in America’s healthcare debate, it will become increasingly important for emergency physicians to come to the negotiating table and defend their worth. There is gross inequity within the current reimbursement system – EPs care for some of the nation’s sickest patients for some of the lowest physician wages – and it could get even worse. Emergency physicians must therefore be able to speak clearly about the value of emergency medicine and the specific reimbursement needs of the specialty.
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MMP Expands Practice Management Services With Three Existing Billing Only Clients: Expansions Due to Rising Reimbursement Cuts and Tougher Compliance Rules - 09/15/2009
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Medical Management Professionals (MMP), a national firm providing billing and practice management services to hospital-based physicians, has expanded its practice management services to three of its existing radiology billing and accounts receivable management clients.
MMP will extend its practice management services offering to Medical Radiologists, Inc. located in Dayton Ohio; Quantum Radiology located in Marietta, Georgia; and Roswell Radiology Associates located in Atlanta, Georgia.
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RBMA Bulletin, Teleradiology Services: Is Nighthawk Right for You?
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Teleradiology has emerged as a potent force in the U.S. health system over the past decade. The ability to transmit digital radiographic images for remote interpretation has helped reduce the on-call workload of hospital-based radiologists, eased the radiologist shortage and delivered powerful new expertise and capacity to rural and understaffed practices around the country.
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| Radiology Today Vol. 10 No. 15 P. 8, Building a Board — Governing Change as Your Group Grows By David A. Myrice, CPA, MBA – 08/24/2009 |
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Radiology practice trends suggest industry consolidation, which translates into larger groups of 12 to 35 physicians or even more. Such growth means that many groups should reconsider their governance structures and how to build a better board of directors to suit such growth.
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HealthLeaders Media, Private Payer Class Action Lawsuits by
Ed Gaines, JD – 08/17/2009 |
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As a result, physician groups must scrutinize all contract language and eliminate any provisions that give carriers blanket authorization to pay based on "standard payment policies" or other, equally broad language. If these "standard payment policies" are based on bundling edits that do not recognize certain procedures coded and billed with the -25 modifier (for example, a procedure is not "separately eligible for payment" but instead is bundled into the E/M service) then the payment provisions could violate the settlement agreement.
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| EDPMA EDLeader, Practice Management: Diversity Helps Embrace the Changing Healthcare Environment Daniel W. Simile, Jr., CPA - 08/14/2009 |
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Physician groups face formidable challenges in the current healthcare environment. Growing regulatory complexity, continued reimbursement cuts and intensifying competition can undermine and destabilize even the strongest practice…
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| Healthcare Finance News: “Roth 401(k) provides docs with flexibility” by David Myrice – 08/01/2009 |
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Amid the current economic turmoil, it’s important that physicians not lose sight of their retirement objectives and long-term financial goals. At the same time, physician groups should continue looking for ways to improve their defined benefit plans to better meet the needs of individual employees and partners.
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| EDLeader (official publication of the EDPMA): “Physician Ownership Provides Key Benefits for Newly Independent Emergency Practices” by James B. Wade, CPA – 07/22/2009 |
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Shifting hospital priorities and continued growth in emergency department volume have led many emergency departments to reconstitute themselves as stand-alone, independent practices. Making the successful transition from employed physician to independent group requires a clear strategy about how best to organize and staff the enterprise…
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RT Image Magazine: “Going Green – EHR’s Impact on Healthcare”
by Kevin Shepherd– 07/06/2009 |
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The business community’s paper consumption is escalating by 20 percent each year and does not seem to show signs of decreasing. Within that segment, the healthcare industry is at the forefront of paper use. As more focus is placed on electronic health records (EHRs) and patient files, the healthcare community can not only anticipate enhanced physician workflow but also positive improvements for green initiatives within the healthcare community.
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HealthLeaders Media: “RACs: Self Assessment and Aggressive Appeals are Key”
by Ed Gaines – 06/01/2009 |
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Reimbursement investigations will likely be pursued in numbers and with a tenacity not previously seen in the Part B Medicare program. Hospital-based physicians should therefore take steps today to ensure that their practices will be ready if and when a RAC investigation is launched.
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| Medical Management Professionals Chosen as Exclusive Service Provider for Radiology Associates of Canton - 06/09/2009 |
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ATLANTA, GA June 9, 2009 – Medical Management Professionals (MMP), a national firm providing billing and practice management services to hospital-based physicians, has been awarded an exclusive billing contract with Radiology Associates of Canton in Canton, Ohio.
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| MMP Introduces Two New Radiology-Based Podcasts for Physicians - Billing Company Website Offers Educational Podcasts about Relevant Finance Issues - 06/23/2009 |
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ATLANTA, GA June 23, 2009 – Medical Management Professionals (MMP), a national firm providing billing and practice management services to hospital-based physicians, introduces two new educational podcasts for radiologists seeking financial advice: “Gaining Control of Your Managed Care Contracts” and “Teleradiology Services – Is Nighthawk for You?”
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| MMP to Hold Live Demo of Efficient New Management and Reporting Analytical Toolset at RBMA Summit - 06/03/2009 |
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ATLANTA, GA June 3, 2009 – Medical Management Professionals, Inc. (MMP), a national firm providing billing and practice management services to hospital-based physicians, will hold a live demo of its new web-based management and reporting analytical tool for radiology professionals. The company’s new “Business and Practice Intelligence” gives practice administrators and radiologists convenient and efficient web-based access to tailored financial data presentations in various formats. Case studies will be showcased during the demo in order to illustrate practice performance measures by site, physician productivity, charges, collections and referring physicians, to name a few.
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| Medical Management Professionals Only Firm To Offer Velocity Billing Proprietary Step-By-Step Process Designed To Help Individual Practices Achieve Optimized Revenue – 05/20/2009 |
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ATLANTA, GA May 20, 2009 – The proprietary product possesses a unique combination of fresh technologies, well designed processes, highly trained, experienced personnel and a leading quality assurance program. MMP believes that the Velocity Billing system can materially improve the revenue streams of physician groups across four specialty areas: anesthesiology, emergency medicine, pathology and radiology by uniquely identifying and efficiently addressing those essential billing principles commonly overlooked by physician groups or their current billing service providers.
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| RT Image - When Writing off is No Longer an Option; Effective Denial Management Keeps Cash Flowing by Richard C.H. Masson, MBA, MHA - 05/06/2009 |
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In the past, many radiology groups didn’t give much thought to their revenue cycle. They assumed that low accounts receivable days and a high net collection percentage accurately reflected a healthy billing process. And if a denied claim fell below a specific dollar threshold, they simply wrote it off. But as reimbursements continue to decrease and payer regulations multiply, radiology groups are finding themselves scrambling to adapt to an increasingly harsh economic environment. In today’s market, only those groups that take every available step to ensure that they’re being paid fully and promptly for services rendered can hope to
prosper in the long run.
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| HealthLeaders Media, Audio Feature - Preparing for RAC Appeals - 05/04/2009 |
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With the RAC program being rolled out permanently nationwide, preparing for the appeals process is more important now than ever. Ed Gaines, vice president and chief compliance officer with CBIZ Medical Management Professionals, an organization that provides medical coding, billing and physician practice management services to hospital-based physicians across the U.S., describes how hospitals are handling the appeals process.
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| Healthcare Finance News - Outsourcing Billing Management for Hospital Physician Practices by G. Darrell Hulsey - 04/03/2009 |
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Today’s hospital-based practices are facing an increasing number of complex challenges – from ever more complicated coding and compliance issues to managed care pressures that impact cash flow. In the current economy, most practices are seeing less margin for error and a greater need for consistency. As new economic policies are developed that will greatly impact the healthcare industry, it’s even more crucial for practices to be aware of outside business management services that can offer efficient, affordable return on investment. Before selecting a billing and practice management services provider, certain guidelines should be followed when engaging prospects.
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| Medical Management Professionals Introduces Podcasts For Physicians - MMP Website Offers Educational Podcasts about Relevant Healthcare Issues – 03/23/2009 |
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ATLANTA, GA March 23, 2009 – Medical Management Professionals (MMP), a national firm providing billing and practice management services to hospital-based physicians, is now offering educational podcasts on its website. Individual podcasts can be downloaded in an MP3 format and will contain various medical industry issues, case studies and helpful professional commentary on billing and practice management trends.
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| Billing and Practice Management Firm, MMP, Chosen as Exclusive Service Provider for Ohio-Based Advanced Radiologic Physicians – 03/23/2009 |
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ATLANTA, GA March 23, 2009 – Medical Management Professionals (MMP), a national firm providing billing and practice management services to hospital-based physicians, has been awarded an exclusive contract with Advanced Radiologic Physicians in Bowling Green, Ohio.
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Medical Billing And Practice Management Firm Hires New Chief Technology
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CHATTANOOGA, TN February 17, 2009 – Medical Management Professionals, Inc. (MMP), a national billing and practice management firm, has hired Joe Degati as its new chief technology officer. Degati will provide strategic vision, leadership and guidance for the company’s IT operations in order to serve its 3,000+ hospital-based physicians and 80+ facilities nationwide.
Degati will direct, coordinate and support all technology functions within the company, including application development and deployment, infrastructure management, and technology governance. He will also negotiate contracts with third party technology providers and maintain customer data security by joining the company’s HIPAA Security Committee for risk assessment and remediation.
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MMP Welcomes Smith and Holland To Its Marketing and Client
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KENNESAW, GA February 16, 2009 – Medical Management Professionals (MMP), a national firm providing billing and practice management services to over 3,000 hospital-based physicians, has hired Tara Smith as its new communications specialist and Patrick Holland as its newest client development representative at its Kennesaw, Ga.- based Marketing office. Smith will oversee the company’s public relations and marketing communications initiatives across three specialty areas: radiology, anesthesiology and emergency medicine. Holland will conduct inside sales initiatives for the company’s Emergency Medicine area.
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Imaging Economics - Practice-Management Firm Proves Efficient,
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| LITTLE ROCK, AR February 2008 – For Steven R. Nokes, MD, president of Radiology Consultants of Little Rock (RCLR), in Arkansas, finding the right business manager was no easy task. Personnel with business credentials lacked radiology-specific knowledge; those with a radiology background did not have the management savvy the practice needed.
With hire after hire, Nokes spent valuable time filling in the blanks. Realizing that hiring someone on his own was not working, he began to research practice-management firms with experience in radiology.t provides billing and practice-management services to hospital-based physicians.
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