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Doctors can also handle medical billing, prescribe drugs, or record a clinical note using speech-to-text on the app.
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But for some patients, the cards can lead to medical billing problems.
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Candice Butcher, who runs Medical Billing Advocates of America in Salem, Va.
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These employees have said it usually takes several attempts to get medical billing straightened out because medical providers default to automatically billing Medicare for services.
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His wife Colleen, a medical billing clerk, said she was completely undecided and honestly did not really want to be there as the debate started.
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But for some patients, the cards can lead to medical-billing nightmares, according to Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson, who says that her office has seen a surge in complaints about the cards over the past year.
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It's requiring all medical equipment suppliers to re-apply for billing privileges.
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Initiatives such as a single billing system or one nationalized electronic medical record would go a long way toward decreasing the overhead in our system.
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The medical credit cards also have drawn criticism for their billing terms.
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Hospitals and medical providers do make mistakes and those mistakes can show up as billing errors.
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Radiation Therapy investors may not be impressed by the fact that its chairman, Howard Sheridan, spent 35 years at a Fort Myers, Fla. medical practice that was sued by U.S. attorneys for billing Medicare for unordered imaging procedures.
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The dates on your billing statements should match the dates of your treatment, and services rendered should match your medical chart.
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