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Happy Holidays
Published December 10, 2011 | 
Happy Holidays to all of our readers here at the Medical Office Clerk Informational Blog. We hope you and yours have a safe and happy one. Don’t forget to make those New Year’s Resolutions. Your comments and suggestions from our legitimate subscribers have been interesting. For all those spammers out there: TAKE THE YEAR OFF!
This year has been a hard one for most of us with turbulent and stressful times and situations. We hope you will take some time and spend it with your family and friends. When the new year starts we resolve to post more articles, keep up with our education and seek out new opportunities for growth in our chosen field!
See Ya Next Year!
Getting Ready for the New Year
Published November 3, 2011 | As Patient Access Reps we are required to keep up-to-date on all the changes and updates happening with various insurance plans that we deal with everyday. That includes doctor’s office personnel and hospital accounts receivable or financial accounting members. The easiest way is to have each of the major insurance websites bookmarked so that you can find the information for the coming year at your fingertips. Medicare has posted the changes for 2012 here: http://www.medicare.gov/cost/
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Further Your Education
Published October 20, 2011 | Let’s face it, we all get into this line of work to make money. It is a job and some of us even make it a career. There are literally hundreds of different educational opportunities out there to learn how to do this job or portions of it. I learned this job the hard way..by doing it and keeping myself abreast of changes happening around me. But with today’s economy and the problems that we face everyday learning a new career or getting more education in your current career is now a necessity rather than a luxury. Keep yourself abreast of the current requirements in your job, read articles about how to improve yourself in your job, take a class online, and take advantage of any educational opportunities offered by your current employer. These are the things that we really need to do in order to keep the money rolling into the family coffers.
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Insurance Alternatives for Our Patients
Published September 12, 2011 | Here in Florida for a couple of years we had the “Cover Florida” program that was supposed to allow anyone without insurance some kind of coverage guaranteed. However, due to more sick than healthy patients signing up for the coverage all of the Insurance Companies pulled out of the program for being too expensive to run per an article posted in the South Florida Business Journal March 25, 2011.
Now, the Federal Government and most of the states have begun insurance programs for those who have pre-existing conditions and haven’t had insurance coverage for 6 months or more. It is called the Preexisting Health Insurance Program or PCIP for short. They have a website with lots of information, an online application, informational brochure, plan costs, etc. Half of the states are sponsored and run by the Human Resources Department of the Federal Government. The other states have already had their own plan in place. There is a coverage map to see if your state is covered by the Federal Government or your State Government Agency.
