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In pain management & personal injury medicine, as in any type of practice, billing and revenue cycle management is essentially a complex accounting process, with many quirks and idiosyncrasies. In our experience, most physicians, in all areas of practice, underestimate what is required to navigate this process successfully.

As a pain & PI practitioner, issues of medical billing and RCM may not be top-of-mind. You’re providing vital care to improve your patients’ lives. Getting paid is not necessarily your primary focus, and it doesn’t need to be. Rather, you need skilled people on your team who are tasked with collecting what you’re owed.

In the areas of billing and RCM, every specialty is a little bit different. In our experience with our pain and PI medical billing clients, the following issues are most common.

In post-acute care, medical billing and revenue cycle management function slightly differently than in other areas of medicine. Post-acute billing and RCM is not necessarily harder or easier than billing and RCM in general, but it’s vitally important that you and your billing team understand its idiosyncrasies.

In this article, we’ll cover:

• Specific coding issues for post-acute visits

• What you need to know about post-acute EHR software

• The key distinctions between different types of Medicare

And more.