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1. Practice Finance Checklist (2008)
American Academy of Pediatrics
This tool provides a basic overview of tips to ensure the financial health of your practice.
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2.Coordination of Benefits: Tips for Reducing Payment Delays and Improving Accounts Receivable (2004)
American Academy of Pediatrics
Features information on coordination of benefits (COB), top reasons for delays in payment, and tips to reduce delays attributed to COB-related problems.
3.Office Financial Policies (2009)
Watchung Pediatrics
These sample office financial policies can be used and/or adapted to meet the needs of your practice.
4.State-by-State Reports Comparing Medicaid, Medicare, and Commercial Payments (2009)
American Academy of Pediatrics
The AAP has made available a set of state-by-state reports comparing Medicaid and Medicare payments for over 160 commonly reported pediatric services for 2007-2008. These reports support pediatricians in making informed decisions in how they manage their practices management and provide health care services.
5.The Business Case for Pricing Vaccines and Immunization Administration (2009)
Private Payer Advocacy Advisory Committee
Provides rationale and methods for pediatricians to better understand and document the true costs of providing vaccines to their patients.
6.Working with Your Payers (2003)
American Academy of Pediatrics
Information on identifying your major payer's HIPAA transactions strategies to enable your practice management or billing system to interact efficiently in accordance with the HIPAA Transactions and Code Sets regulation.
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7.Working with Your Vendors (2003)
American Academy of Pediatrics
Information on working with your practice management or billing system vendor, a key part of setting up your practice to comply with the HIPAA Transactions and Code Sets regulation.
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8.Vaccine Cost Calculators (2009)
American Academy of Pediatrics
These calculators allow you to calculate the practice cost of administering 1 dose of vaccine over a 3 month timeframe.
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9.AAP Letter: Payers Notified of Recommendations for Live, Attenuated Influenza Vaccine (LAIV) (2008)
AAP Private Payer Advocacy Advisory Committee
Official AAP letter to medical directors, dated December 20, 2007, notifying national carriers of the recent expansion of the recommendations by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for the use of the live, attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) to include children 2 to 4 years of age.
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10.Chapter 9: Billing and Collections for Telephone Care (2008)
Section on Telephone Care
Provides guidelines for appealing for payment for telephone care that is provided. This is part of the AAP's Payment for Telephone Care: A Toolkit.
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11.Co-Payments (2008)
Watchung Pediatrics
This is a sample office document that can be given to parents and guardians who are unable to make a co-payment for their visit.
12.Health Savings Account Algorithm (2008)
American Academy of Pediatrics
Do you wonder if you can charge patients who have health savings accounts (HSAs) at the time of their visit? This algorithm will help you determine that answer.
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13.Patient Education on Billing Issues (2008)
St. Cloud Medical Group, PA
This document provides an overview to patients on how insurance companies are billed.
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14.Sending Bills to Patients (2008)
AAP Section on Administration and Practice Management Listserv
This document was created as a result of a Section on Administration and Practice Management e-mail list conversation about when to send patients statements for outstanding balances.
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15.Template Letter to Parents: Outstanding Patient Account Balance Letter (2008)
Practice Management Online Editorial Advisory Board
Template letter to patients/families alerting them of an outstanding patient account balances.
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16.Tool C: Choices of Billable Telephone Care (2008)
Section on Telephone Care
This sample checklist can be used to guide discussion among members of your practice to determine which telephone visits would warrant a fee. This is part of the AAP's Payment for Telephone Care: A Toolkit.
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17.Tool P: Sample Appeal Letter to Payer (2008)
Section on Telephone Care
Template letter to payer regarding denial of previous claim. This is part of the AAP's Payment for Telephone Care: A Toolkit.
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18.Low-Overhead/High-Satisfaction Practice (2007)
Brian R. Forrest, MD
The Access Healthcare model is a practice structure that eliminates third-party payers and at the same time increases patient satisfaction and decreases the cost of medical care.
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19.Pricing Vaccines: The Business Perspective (2007)
Mark S. Reuben, MD, FAAP
Vaccines are becoming increasingly expensive and many insurers are not providing adequate payment for the actual costs of vaccinations. This document and PowerPoint file provide a summary on ways that pediatricians can negotiate to purchase vaccines at a lower cost while also getting paid for overhead expenses.
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20.Pediatric Practice In Action! - Feb 2006 (2006)
American Academy of Pediatrics
Highlights advice and strategies from the AAP Private Payer Advocacy Advisory Committee on getting paid for new vaccines.
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