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June 8, 2024

Beat Physician Burnout with Medical Scribes: Reclaim Your Time and Sanity

Six ways a scribe reduces physician workload, the research finding up to 100 minutes reclaimed per shift, and what to look for when selecting scribes for a pilot.

May 10, 2024

MLN006559 – Medicare Preventive Services

Preventive Visit- Initial Preventive-Annual Well Visit-Annual Well woman; Clearing the confusion. Preventive visit, Initial preventive visit, Annual well visit, and Annual well woman are words often used interchangeably by patients and healthcare professionals, yet they are not the same, actually very different. Below we will clear up that confusion.

May 8, 2024

Urgent Care: Bilateral ICD-CM Coding

Urgent care often addresses common issues like joint or bone pain, which require careful consideration of ICD-CM coding guidelines. It’s crucial to ensure that healthcare providers are familiar with these guidelines and that EHR systems offer the full descriptions of ICD-CM coding codes.

February 10, 2024

Unlock 99211 Billing: When and How to Use This E/M Code for Established Patients

Confused about when to code CPT 99211 for established patients? This guide clarifies its use, including “incident to” services, documentation tips, and more. CPT 99211 is defined as “Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient that may not require the presence of a physician. Usually, the presenting problem(s) are minimal. Typically, 5 minutes are spent performing or supervising these services.”

February 2, 2024

Crucial Medical Coding Solutions for Critical Access Hospitals

Medical coding plays a pivotal role in healthcare management for critical access hospitals (CAHs) that significantly impacts financial sustainability, guarantees regulatory compliance, upholds data accuracy, and helps facilitate patient care coordination.

August 1, 2023

Speeding up the Shift from Fee-For-Service to Value-Based Care: Leveraging the Potency of Integrated Healthcare Services

Why fee-for-service incentivises volume over value, and the five categories of integrated service that help providers make the shift to value-based payment.

May 9, 2023

Introducing VMOS: Virtual Medical Office Services by Nivaran

An introduction to Nivaran's Virtual Medical Office Services, covering customer service, chart preparation, virtual assistants, and call center support with projected returns for each.

January 23, 2023

Fax Management Support Services: Remote Assistants Provide Hands-on Quality Control

Managing incoming faxes is a time-consuming and error-prone task for medical office staff. What a remote assistant handles, from renaming and routing to attaching lab results to the right chart.

November 30, 2022

The medical billing software that must be on top of your list

What encoder software does for medical coders, and a look at five billing platforms worth shortlisting: DrChrono, Kareo Billing, CureMD, AdvancedMD, and CentralReach.

November 23, 2022

All about CPT and ICD codes in medical billing

The five medical coding classification systems explained, from ICD-11 through HCPCS Level 2, and how CPT and ICD codes work together in billing: one describes the treatment, the other the problem it treats.

August 7, 2022

True Cost of a Virtual Medical Scribe: What Healthcare Providers Should Know

The arithmetic of scribe ROI worked through: hours saved, extra patients seen, and the daily margin between scribe cost and additional billing, plus the non-financial returns.

July 25, 2022

How to Become a Virtual Medical Scribe: Career Guide, Skills and Training

How the HITECH Act and the ACA created the virtual scribing industry, what the work actually involves day to day, and the educational background, listening, typing, and computer skills needed to enter it.

June 12, 2022

The future of Remote Medical Scribes in healthcare delivery

Five ways the scribe role is expanding beyond documentation, from building specialty templates to workflow analysis and coordinating with MAs, coders, and referral staff.

July 21, 2021

A Sneak Peek at How Nivaran Medical Scribes Are Improving Physicians’ Quality of Work and Life

Nine ways remote medical scribes change a physician's day, from finishing charts before the shift ends to adding one to three appointments daily, with the revenue and burnout effects that follow.

July 16, 2021

Optimize Medical Billing with Expert Coders at Nivaran

Accurate coding can be the difference between billing $20 and $2000 for the same treatment. A look at the 2021 E/M changes, the risk carried by coding errors, and what certified coders bring to the revenue cycle.

June 22, 2021

Benefits Of Outsourcing Insurance Eligibility Verification

Insurance Eligibility verification confirms what a patient's insurer will cover before the clinical visit. Skipping it is a leading cause of claim denials, and outsourcing it streamlines the workflow, reduces rework, and speeds reimbursement.

June 21, 2021

How Medical Coding Improves Billing Accuracy and Revenue

Accurate ICD and CPT coding drives medical billing and underpins the revenue cycle. How correct coding lifts reimbursement, cuts claim rejections, and where errors carry compliance risk.

May 27, 2021

Rise Of The Medical Scribe Industry And Its Impact On Healthcare Delivery

What began as a charting support role has become a strategic part of healthcare delivery, evolving from human scribes to AI-driven documentation. A look at the efficiency gains, the burnout reduction, and the oversight AI still requires.