In April, The Business of Spine, affiliate of revenue cycle management firm Business Dynamics RCM, held its Revenue Cycle Dynamics for the Spine Reimbursement Specialist Education Series in New York.

The Business of Spine will host a Revenue Cycle Dynamics for the Spine Reimbursement Specialist Educational Series, a course which will be hosted in New York in April.

Ambulatory surgery centers are now able to bring spine procedures — including spinal fusions — into the outpatient setting. However, some ASCs are having a hard time finding payors who will reimburse for those procedures.

Business Dynamics has changed its name to Business Dynamics RCM to better reflect the core mission and elite services provided by the company.

This article is written by Barbara Cataletto, MBA, CPC, CEO/Managing Director of Business Dynamics, Inc, and originally appeared in the Business Dynamics newsletter. It is republished here with permission from Business Dynamics.

Spine practices depend on insurance company reimbursement to sustain their practice. Over time this sustainability is directly related to the patient base and insurance reimbursements that the practice develops relative to community, facility and referral relationships. These past years have placed a toll on many spine practices, so maybe it’s time to evaluate these relationships to ensure that your practice will be viable well into the future. One way to identify trends in reimbursement, patient populations and referral bases is through an insurance dependency audit.

Founder and CEO of Business Dynamics Barbara Cataletto, MBA, CPC, recently received the Stevie award in the category of Female Entrepreneur of the Year — Business Services — 11 to 2,500 employees.

The International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery has partnered with The Business of Spine to educate its members on coding and reimbursements.

Surgeons have been seeing sudden and unannounced coverage changes for common spinal procedures over the past year, leading to denied claims and a loss of revenue and resources. The strategies used by many insurance companies to rein in costs have had a significant impact on spine practices and patient care.

This article is written by Barbara Cataletto, MBA, CPC, Chief Executive Officer, Business Dynamics Limited.

This article was written by Barbara Cataletto, MBA, CPC, Chief Executive Officer, Business Dynamics LLC.

As I sit in a medical office, I observe how the parties interact:  fill out this form, have a seat, need your insurance card. Sound familiar? What happened to the small niceties people exchange with one another: being courteous, a smile, a hello, please or thank you? Well, from this prospective, it seems to me that the need to get the information into the computer, complete the chart and prepare documentation has taken over and the formalities of personal gesturing have been replaced by the need to complete the tasks required to fulfill operational requirements.