The challenge of today's healthcare providers goes far beyond providing high quality, innovative patient care. It requires effectively managing operational costs, properly capturing revenue, providing timely and accurate coding services, and achieving compliance with all state and federal laws. The environment is complex and always changing. Since a healthcare provider's first priority is to provide high-quality patient care, even the best managed organizations know there are opportunities to improve aspects of the business operation.

To assist healthcare providers to not only survive, but thrive in this challenging environment, LBMC has assembled a team of highly experienced and exceedingly credentialed healthcare professionals. Our staff possesses an average of 18 years of industry experience in roles such as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, Managed Care Executive, Materials Manager, and HMR Manager which enables us to provide practical solutions to everyday challenges.

Many factors influence how you practice medicine. Competition from urgent care centers, so-called minute clinics and the Internet have all, no doubt, affected the way you manage your practice. But one thing has not changed: your need to satisfy your customer, the patient. read more »

The business of a medical practice involves a complex set of procedures and carefully coordinated acts that allow a patient to be treated, referred and billed. Yet new employees are expected to get up to speed in a short time, and established staff members may choose to cut corners over time. That’s why a detailed, updated and enforced office procedural manual is a great tool to help ensure consistency in how the practice goes about its business. read more »

The greatest asset of any physician practice is its employees — the good ones, that is. Just about every practice manager has had to deal with a problematic staff member at one time or another. Problems can range from an employee not performing his or her job properly to someone stealing cash, medical supplies or equipment from the practice. The biggest mistake many practice managers make is either taking far too long to deal with problem employees or not dealing with them at all. read more »

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (January 9, 2012) – Lattimore Black Morgan & Cain, PC today announced that Shatita Daniels of the firm’s Healthcare Consulting Group has been conferred the title of Certified Evaluation and Management Coder (CEMC) by the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC).

Daniels, a Certified Professional Coder (CPC), earned the CEMC credential after passing an exam that included questions on Medicare billing rules and regulations, time-based coding, risk assessment and medical terminology. read more »