With rises in patient care needs and increasing importance of telehealth services, there is also a rise in the importance of being able to get the care you need, when you need it. Telehealth, as we have mentioned before, is a way for patients to get access to remote medical care. [...]
A while back we talked about what Revenue Cycle Management is and how it can help your healthcare practice. In short it is a cycle, starting from even before a patient has an appointment, and involves every step needed to document, verify, bill, follow-up, and collect patients’ appointment and insurance information [...]
The HRSA COVID-19 Uninsured Program has stopped accepting testing and treatment claims as of 11:59pm ET March 22, 2022. Additionally, the deadline for submitting vaccine administration claims is 11:59pm ET on April 5, 2022. According to the HRSA website, this is due to a lack of sufficient funds. Any claims submitted after [...]
Medical billing reports are a record of your facility’s billing history for a certain period of time. There can be different types of reports with different information, but they can all give you a helpful overview of how your facility is performing as related to insurance claims. When a claim is [...]
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through HRSA distributed $2 billion more as part of the Provider Relief Fund. Last week, as part of Phase 4 of the Provider Relief Fund, they made payments to more than 7600 providers. This is in addition to the approximately $9 billion [...]
Happy New Year from Americare Network! We are extremely excited to start this year and continue helping our healthcare providers. For those who do not know our company, we are a medical billing company and much more. Not only can we help your healthcare facility with medical billing, but we can [...]
Happy Holidays from our team at Americare Network! Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season. Wishing everybody the best of health and happiness!
In a previous post we mentioned that for Period 1 Reporting, a 60-day Grace Period was extended for providers as part of the Provider Relief Fund (PRF). This Grace Period started October 1st, 2021 and ends November 30th, 2021 at 11:59PM ET. This Grace Period was extended to allow providers some [...]
We’re getting closer to the effective date of the No Surprises Act, January 1, 2022. As part of this Act, “good faith estimates” are required of providers. But what does this mean exactly? Firstly, good faith estimates are required for uninsured individuals or self pay individuals. When a provider finds out [...]
