The 7 Places Independent Practices Quietly Lose Revenue Every Month
Most of the revenue an independent practice loses is not stolen, disputed, or written off in some dramatic moment. It leaks. A claim that never goes out. An underpaid EOB nobody reads line by line. A patient balance that ages into nothing. None of it shows up as a single alarming number, which is exactly […]
How to Use AI to Decode a Denial in Under 3 Minutes
Editor’s note: This piece was reviewed by Dr. Heather Signorelli, DO, as physician-reviewed operational guidance. It is not medical, legal, or compliance advice, and NatRevMD does not endorse any specific AI vendor. Verify any workflow against your own HIPAA and payer obligations. A denial is a small mystery with a lot of money attached. Somewhere […]
The 5 Systems That Let Your Practice Run Without You
Here is a test worth running on your own practice. Take a two-week vacation, fully unplugged, no calls, no logging in. Then look at what happened while you were gone. If the answer is that things quietly fell apart, that claims aged, that decisions waited for you, and that the team held its breath until […]
What OB Billing Looks Like After the Global Codes Are Unbundled
Antepartum care is where the OB unbundling change does the most quiet damage, or the most quiet good, depending on whether you are ready. Under the global maternity package, prenatal visits were invisible from a billing standpoint. You saw the patient, documented enough to be safe, and the whole run of visits rolled into one […]
True Profit vs. Reported Profit: How to Actually Know What Your Practice Makes
Ask most physician owners what their practice makes, and they will tell you a number from the bottom of their P&L. It is a real number. It is also, almost always, not the truth. Reported profit — the figure your accounting software produces — and true profit — what your practice actually generates as an […]
Payment Posting: The Boring Workflow That Decides Whether You Keep Your Cash
Payment posting is the least glamorous job in the revenue cycle, which is exactly why it is one of the most important. It looks like data entry. It gets treated like data entry. And when it is done like data entry, it quietly becomes the point where recoverable revenue slips away without anyone noticing. We […]
We Compared ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini for Medical Practices
*Editor’s note: This piece was reviewed by Dr. Heather Signorelli, DO, as physician-reviewed operational guidance. It is not medical, legal, or compliance advice, and NatRevMD does not endorse any specific AI vendor. Verify any workflow against your own HIPAA and payer obligations. Every week someone asks us which AI tool they should buy for the […]
In-House vs. Outsourced Billing: The Real ROI Analysis for a Practice Doing $200K+/mo
Most in-house versus outsourced billing comparisons are useless, because they compare the wrong things. They line up the salary of your biller against the percentage a billing company charges, decide the biller is cheaper, and stop there. That comparison misses almost everything that actually determines which option makes you more money. For a practice doing […]
HIPAA and AI: What You Can Safely Put Into ChatGPT or Claude
*Editor’s note: This piece was reviewed by Dr. Heather Signorelli, DO, as physician-reviewed operational guidance. It is not medical, legal, or compliance advice, and NatRevMD does not endorse any specific AI vendor. Verify any workflow against your own HIPAA and payer obligations.* Here is the scenario that keeps compliance officers up at night. A well-meaning […]
2027 OB Global Codes: Everything Independent OB/GYN Practices Need
For as long as most of us have been practicing, obstetric care has been billed as a single bundle. One global maternity code covered antepartum visits, delivery, and postpartum care. You saw the patient a dozen or more times, delivered the baby, saw her again at six weeks, and submitted one claim. Clean on paper. […]