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Secrets for Winning the A/R Battle at Your CHC

At month’s close, Community Health Center (CHC) executives across the country brace themselves as they review ...

Delaware FQHC Prepares for Bright Fiscal Future

Pawtucket, RI, April 26, 2017 – PMG, Inc., the national leader in revenue cycle management solutions ...

Enrollment vs. Credentialing vs. Facility Privileges

To many in CHC leadership, these three topics can be confusing. To maximize reimbursement, while staying ...

PMG, Inc. Welcomes Newest Revenue Cycle Management Client, WinMed Health Services

Pawtucket, RI, March 29, 2017 – PMG, Inc., the national leader in revenue cycle management solutions ...

HealthRIGHT 360 Excited to Join Revenue Cycle Management Program

Sacramento, CA & Pawtucket, R.I., April 10, 2017 – The California Primary Care Association (CPCA), and ...

Community Health Center Prepares for Financial Success

Pawtucket, RI, April 1, 2017 – PMG, Inc., the national leader in revenue cycle management solutions ...

How the ACA Could Affect Your CHC

Congressional consternation continues in Washington D.C. Too many options from too many interest groups makes it ...

Locum Tenens vs. “Incident to” Billing: Unraveling the Mystery

Too many CHCs are befuddled when it comes to understanding how to bill services under another ...

PMG’s FQHC Funding Predictions for 2017

2016 was tumultuous to say the least, with the most divisive U.S. election in modern history ...

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UCLA Study Looks at Number of CHC Uninsured Patients Post ACA

Community health centers are serving millions more people than they did before passage of the Affordable ...

2016 Medicare Preventive Codes

Incident-to, Supervision, and Locum Tenen

Top 5 Reasons PPS G Codes Need Code Expansion

Coding is a complex topic. So confusing is it that too many in CHC leadership fail ...

Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) and Initial Preventive Physical Examinations (IPPE)

CHC Credentialing… Great Opportunities and Frightening Liabilities

Many CHCs struggle to maximize reimbursement. Transition from cost based to PPS rates, understanding Medicare G ...

What Does EDI Mean for Medical Billing?

I was asked to write a blog post about what I do as the Director of ...

CMS launches largest-ever multi-payer initiative to improve primary care in America

CMS recently announced its largest-ever initiative geared to improve how primary care if delivered and payed ...

PMG, Inc. Welcomes Newest Revenue Cycle Management Client, Family Medical Centers

Pawtucket, RI, April 14, 2016 – PMG, Inc., the national leader in revenue cycle management solutions ...

Improving Self-Pay is Not One Size Fits All for CHC’s

Is your self-pay AR continuing to grow and you just don’t know what to do about ...

Gross vs Net Collections: What Your CHC Needs to Know

At PMG, we encourage our community health center (CHC) clients to familiarize themselves with their financial ...

Claims Denial Reasons and How to Fix It

Are you in denial? Denials are claims that get processed by a payer but are not ...

Culture of Confidentiality Part II

Your Health Center’s biggest information security threat is… your employees? Information Security Professionals are constantly on ...

Bill Proposes Medicare Common Access Card

  Bills calling for a Medicare Common Access Card were submitted in the U.S. House of ...

Revenue Cycle Numbers: Day in Accounts Receivable (DAR)

A Key Performance Indicator (KPI), simply put, is a performance measurement. KPIs evaluate the success of ...

ICD-10 Intro to Coding Conventions Part 1

ICD-10 Intro to Coding Conventions Part 2

How Medical Coding Training Could Help

CHC providers are notoriously bad at coding. Don’t believe me. Look at the data. CMS limited ...

Numbers Don’t Lie: FQHC Key Performance Indicators

Reimbursement in the community health center (CHC) world has changed drastically over the program’s last 40 ...

Cutting Costly Codes Act Attempts to Delay ICD-10

Ted Poe (R-Tex.), along with 6 co-sponsors, proposed a House bill to delay the government-mandated transition ...

HHS Announces $101 Million in Affordable Care Funding For CHCs

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today approximately $101 million in Affordable Care ...

“Doc Fix” Bill passes Senate… no more patches for this leaky boat

Last night the U.S. Senate voted 92-8 to prevent cuts in payments to Medicare patient providers. ...

Northwest Regional PCA selects PMG, Inc. as featured vendor

Northwest Regional PCA (NWRPCA) joins forces with PMG, Inc. to offer discounted services to NWRPCA members. ...

PMG ICD-10 Client Shares Success

PMG ICD-10 Consulting client, Community Health of Central Washington, speaks to press about ICD-10, sharing their ...

Medicare PPS – are we having fun yet?

The Transition to PPS Payment Methodology The transition to the PPS payment methodology for Medicare has ...

House Approves Full Funding for CHC’s

The recent Medicare funding bill was passed in the House of Representatives yesterday but today the ...

$7.2 Billion in Funding for CHC’s Hits a Snag

The recently announced bipartisan health care deal has come upon opposition in the Senate. The deal ...

Iowa Medicaid Managed Care Proposal Hits Opposition

Plans to shift Iowa’s Medicaid program to managed care face opposition. Click Here to Read More