When you sit down to meet with 2 other health care professionals, including the physician most responsible for the patient, you’re eligible to bill case conference units through OHIP. The two other eligible health professionals can be a combination of: other …
It’s that time of year again, rushing to book patients before the holidays, dealing with tighter OR schedules over the holidays, and let’s not forget – Christmas shopping! To add to the chaos, the MOHLTC has an earlier cut-off date …
It’s a few days after you’ve submitted a big batch of claims to the Ministry of Health, you check your MCEDT account, and there they are: Error reports. You groan and hit print. It’s time for your favorite part of billing – clean up and resubmission. Find the explanations and solutions to the EH-series error codes here.
If you’ve decided to incorporate your medical practice, you need to know how a company operates and how it’s different from being a self-employed individual. Read on to get the facts.
JCL was recently asked why MRP’s who admit a patient are supposed to bill C122 and C123 for the first and second day after admission as opposed to billing assessments. Below we outline the differences between major assessments during hospital admissions and MRP visit codes, as well as when to use which codes.
Is Incorporation Right for You? If you are thinking of incorporating your medical practice there are certain questions you should be asking yourself: Do I earn more each year than my current spending needs? Do I have immediate family members that …
In our capacity as billing agents, we help our doctors get compensated for the work they do. We run accounts receivable reports, follow-up on unpaid claims, and generally have a stake in the financial well-being of our physicians. When we …
An OHIP bulletin announcing a second round of cuts to Physician payments was announced on Sept 14, 2015. Physicians across Ontario can expect an additional clawback starting October 1st, 2015.
There have been numerous high profile breaches of privacy in Ontario hospitals over the past couple of years. For most Ontario physicians, however, it’s ‘unintended’ privacy breaches that are of a much greater – and growing – concern.
Psychiatrists have been asking us about billing CTO’s, and wondering why the K887, K888 and K889 codes aren’t paid when submitted in the usual manner to the MOH. We have the answers below.