All professional healthcare services are billed out to the 'third party payer world' in an established electronic or paper format. This format is set to change in 2006 with a mandatory switch over to the new format by February 2007. Make certain that you take the necessary time to meet with your practice management company or your practice's information system's staff to make the necessary changes in time to begin using the new format without running out of time. Carriers will start to accept the new form in October 2006. Here's another important thing to remember, make certain you have enough of the old format CMS 1500 pre-printed forms on hand to get you to your switch over point, chances are likely that suppliers of the forms will cease production of the old form at some point and may run out. Don't be caught off guard, work on making the switch early, by Nov/Dec 2006.

BCS will be ready to produce either format by October 2006 so that our clientele will not experience any interruption in their practice's cash flow and AR turn around. Read More...