Billing

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Billing

1. The process by which a seller sends demands for payment to one or more buyers. Billing may occur once if the buyer pays in full, or it may occur regularly (such as once a month) in an installment plan.

2. A department in a company that deals with billing.

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To prepare your facility for billing compliance, look at the charge structure for ancillary services and products.

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"Smart screens" that automatically fill in all known patient data from other screens-plus an intuitive approach that allows standard patient charting and links all patient care activity to the billing and reporting modules-provide an easy-to-use interface that eliminates duplicate data entry, while providing automatic accounting and reporting across functions.

Information management

The hourly billing rates imply a certain level of professional knowledge by the professionals designated to perform the assigned tasks.

How to examine legal bills

Involves itemizing a series of tests that are all done on a single sample; for example, billing separately each of the 12 individual tests of an SMA-12 panel instead of billing the single CPT code established for an SMA-12.

Fraud and abuse: the payer's perspective

The DEP has introduced the multi-family conservation program that can be used in lieu of frontage and meter billing. The incentive for this program is that there is one flat rate used per apartment per year.

DEP makes need for new meters aqua clear

It is known that a controversial point in the draft Program Memorandum was the inclusion in Consolidated Billing of all hospital outpatient services provided to a SNF/NF Medicare resident.

An update on Medicare consolidated billing

Alan Accountant set his employee billing rates using the following method:

How much money are you really making? CPAs may be surprised at the answer

Even billing errors or misinterpretation of a regulation is enough to prompt an investigation under the Act.

Legal alert: beware the False Claims Act

Stewart declared, "That's just where I want to be." To improve the firm's revenues, Stewart has been considering billing on a per-form basis rather than charging a set fee for each tax return.

How small CPA firms manage their cash

Computerized billing statements utilized by the landlord's counsel, which sufficiently particularized the services performed and the time incurred, were acceptable as proof of the services rendered.

Legal fees awarded landlord are calculated by the court

A billing clerk simply does not have the knowledge or experience to assume full responsibility for proper coding.

Self-protection against accusations of fraud

As sole practitioners begin to offer new services, they may have to employ more than one billing practice.