BC Advantage - 2020 Issue 1

Data Is Not Enough; Clients Need Information

There are still some dinosaurs in this wonderful world of Medical Billing (as an example, me!).  My career has spanned over five decades, starting in Hospital Patient Accounting-what it was called before the current term of Revenue Cycle Management.  I think the title was changed to help bolster salaries.As I reflect on the beginning of my career, I remember daily posting hospital charges on an NCR bookkeeping machine (which was just a glorified cash register) to individual paper patient ledger cards. The hospital UB claim forms were prepared on an IBM Selectric typewriter, which...

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