Billing and Collections

Practice e-Tips on Practice Operations - 11/13/2025

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Practice E-Tips on Billing and Collections - 11/13/2025

Practice E-Tips on Billing and Collections

Filing a Compliant With the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) - 11/13/2025

Filing a Compliant With the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI)

When Should We Write Off Large Patient Balances? - 11/12/2025

Is there a formula to calculate the net present value for the balance of a patient’s account compared with a small monthly payoff?

Develop a No-Show Policy — and Use It - 11/12/2025

Develop a no-show policy — and use it

Collection Agency Submittal Do’s and Don’ts - 11/11/2025

Your collection agency has a better shot at success in collecting your past-due accounts if you follow tips for submitting accounts to the agency.

Starting a Practice - 11/11/2025

Setting Up or Closing a Practice

Verify Auditor Credentials - 11/11/2025

Be careful about who gets access to your medical records, and to which ones.

Appealing Claims Can Have Appealing Results - 10/24/2025

Not appealing inappropriately paid or denied health plan claims can be quite costly to your practice. Here’s why.

Medicare as Secondary Payer - 10/24/2025

Medicare as secondary payer: Submit the primary EOB with paper claims but not with electronic claims.

You Can Get Paid for Medicaid Emergency Services - 10/24/2025

You Can Get Paid for Medicaid Emergency Services

Follow These Five Tips When You Follow Up on Claims - 10/24/2025

Follow These Five Tips When You Follow Up on Claims

Practice e-Tips on Claims - 10/20/2025

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Should You Bill This Visit as “Incident to”? - 10/16/2025

A physician hires a nonphysician practitioner and establishes a standing delegation order for a specific course of treatment. … Read the rest of the scenario. Can you answer the billing question correctly?

TMA Reimbursement Services - 09/22/2025

TMA Payment Advocacy Services

It Takes a Team to Produce a Good Claim - 09/16/2025

It Takes a Team to Produce a Good Claim

Four Bill-Collecting Tips for New (or Any) Practices - 09/16/2025

Starting a practice can be daunting, and one challenge often overlooked is making sure you get paid. Although only a small number of patients will not pay you, or will pay slowly, they can hurt your bottom line. Writing off thousands of dollars in charges should not be an option.

What's My Taxonomy Code? - 09/15/2025

What's My Line (Taxonomy Code)?

Novitas Clarifies Payment Available for ‘Buildup Phase’ of Allergy Treatments - 09/12/2025

The Medicare administrative contractor confirmed their payment policy at a meeting with TMA. Members should contact the association’s Physician Payment Resource Center if claims denials occur.

Cigna Downcoding Policy Threatens Payment; TMA Urges Repeal - 08/18/2025

The payer announced a new plan under which it may adjust certain higher-level evaluation and management codes based on the encounter criteria in a submitted claim.

Billing and Collections: A Process, Not a Task - 08/07/2025

Revenue cycle procedures begin with efficient appointment scheduling and end with payment for billed charges. By attending carefully to each step of the revenue cycle process, you can eliminate problems that may cause your practice to lose money.

How to Improve Patient Debt Collection Practices - 08/06/2025

TMA staff remind physicians that securing insurance information from patients before seeing them is a crucial first step in obtaining payment. They also offer advice on involving office staff and accountants in the process.

VA Seeking Refunds from Physicians for Past CHAMPVA Claims - 06/26/2025

Physicians may soon hear from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) seeking refunds for payments it says were made in error. TMA has provided information on what steps physicians may take.

Why You Need a Written Payment Policy - 03/19/2025

If your practice is wishy-washy about your payment policy, you essentially are allowing each patient to make his or her own policy. What other business allows its customers to decide when and how they will pay?

Don’t Overlook Credit Card Processing Fees - 02/14/2025

In today’s world of coinsurance and high-deductible health plans, more of a practice’s revenue comes from the patient, and taking credit cards has become a must. But are you paying too much for credit card processing services?