What is a Corporation?
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.
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The Four Benefits of Incorporation
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 …
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Getting expert advice on Incorporation
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 …
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New Doctor? You have options
Newly certified doctors are very busy this time of year getting their new practices organized. We thought we’d help lighten the load by explaining the options for handling your medical billing. Deciding on an option earlier will help you get your first paycheck that much sooner.
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Nurse Practitioners can now refer
Earlier this month, the MOH announced an important change to the Schedule of Benefits. Beginning May 1st, 2015 Nurse Practitioners can now refer patients in Ontario.
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Early OHIP Cut-Off for the Holidays!
As we’ve mentioned in earlier blog posts, the Ministry of Health states that the cut-off to submit claims for payment is always the 18th of the month. However, with the December holiday season, the MOH has requested a much early cut-off date for submissions.
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Take our kids to work day
This past Wednesday was “Take Our Kids to Work” day in Canada. The program encourages Grade 9 students to go to work with their parents, friends, and relatives. JCL got to participate in this great initiative this year.
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Tales from a proud father
These blogs are designed to provide our physicians and followers with insights they can use to better their medical billing practices. Now and then, however, something happens that causes me to deviate from that path.
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Preventing Audits: How JCL can help
Our primary task as billing specialists for physicians in Ontario is to process claims with a keen and critical eye. We review, interpret, correct and keep track of our physicians’ billing habits, continually looking for potential errors, missing information, and claims that fall outside of normal billing parameters.
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Case Study: The Payment Integrity Program in Action
Given the volume of OHIP billing that JCL has processed for hundreds of physicians over the years, we have had very little occasion to deal with serious payment integrity issues. That said, once or twice a year our doctors do receive letters from the Ministry of Health requesting further information about their medical billing.