Claim denial rates jumped from 9% in 2016 to 15% in 2023 according to Experian Health’s 2025 State of Claims report. If you’re reading this, you already know the frustration: hours spent drafting appeal letters, searching for the right clinical language, tracking down documentation, all while the filing deadline looms. Here’s what that costs your…
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The Definitive Guide to Coordination of Benefits for Medical Billing Professionals
Coordination of Benefits (COB) is the process insurance companies use to determine which health plan pays first (primary payer) and which pays second (secondary payer) when patients have multiple coverages. This prevents duplicate payments and ensures providers receive correct reimbursement. With 43 million Americans covered by multiple health insurance plans, proper COB handling is essential…
Top Knowledge Management Software Solutions for 2026
Knowledge management (KM) software is designed to help organizations store, manage, and share information efficiently. Businesses need to ensure their knowledge is organized, accessible, and easily shareable across teams. KM software allows organizations to centralize their knowledge, improve collaboration, and enhance productivity. KM software provides a range of benefits, from helping businesses reduce information silos…
What is Revenue Cycle Management and Why is it Important in Healthcare?
If you work in healthcare billing, you already know the truth: one small mistake at registration can turn into a nightmare three months later when that claim comes back denied. Miss a referral, transpose a digit in an insurance ID, or verify coverage on the wrong date, and you’re stuck explaining to your CFO why…
The Ultimate Guide to Designing Effective Medical Billing Training Programs
Here’s the uncomfortable truth about healthcare billing departments right now: they’re barely keeping their heads above water. Experian Health’s 2025 State of Claims report found that 43% of revenue cycle management teams are understaffed. And it gets worse—research from Umbrex shows 33% of healthcare finance leaders say workforce shortages are their biggest operational headache. You…
The Complete 2026 Revenue Cycle Management Training Guide for New Hires
Claim denial rates hit 11.81% in 2024, according to Experian Health’s State of Claims report. That’s not just a statistic. It’s real revenue walking out the door every single day. Behind every denied claim sits undertrained staff who don’t know what they don’t know. The financial impact is staggering. Healthcare organizations lose an estimated $260…
How to Improve Your Medical Billing Process Without Changing Systems [2026 Guide]
Look, we get it. Your denial rates are climbing. Industry data shows they hit 11.8% in 2024, up from 10.2% just a couple years back. Collections are slowing down. Your billing staff is drowning in rework. And the absolute last thing you want to hear right now is “let’s rip out the whole system and…
The Complete Guide to Rapidly Training Medical Billing Teams in 2026
Medical billing teams are under more pressure than ever. Insurance companies are denying more claims, documentation requirements keep getting more complicated, and the cost of mistakes keeps climbing. Each documentation error from an undertrained staff member triggers a claim denial that costs $25-50 to fix. Multiply that across thousands of claims monthly, and poor staff…
How to Build an AI Prompt Library That Saves Time and Improves Results
You spend 15 minutes crafting the perfect prompt for ChatGPT. It works brilliantly. Three weeks later, you need it again but can’t remember exactly how you phrased it. You start from scratch. This happens constantly to teams using AI tools. The solution is an AI prompt library: an organized collection of your best prompts that…
10 Best AI Prompt Managers for Teams in 2026: Complete Comparison Guide
Office workers waste over 40% of their time on manual digital processes including data entry and copying content between systems. For teams using AI tools, this inefficiency manifests as constantly jumping between prompt libraries, wikis, and AI platforms to manually copy and paste prompts. Without a systematic approach to managing these prompts, organizations face inconsistent…