A Midwestern pathology group we assist was recently being pushed by its third-party collection agency to pursue legal action for a number of unpaid accounts. Because of this, we began receiving reports from the agency that were supposed to show…
Mick Raich recently traveled to the CMS headquarters in Baltimore to gain some insight on bundled payments, how mergers and acquisitions are affecting the future of health care, value versus volume and more. Raich plugged that insight into his crystal…
At Stark Medical Auditing and Consulting, we believe it's important to not only invest in our clients, but to invest in our personnel as well. Don't believe us? Check out this letter written by Cody Raich, an executive data analyst…
A billing audit we recently conducted for a hospital-based physician group reaffirmed the importance of regularly comparing your fee schedule against Medicare's to ensure you're consistently maximizing your revenue.
Stark Medical Auditing and Consulting is pleased to announce our president Mick Raich has been awarded the American Association for Clinical Chemistry's 2015 Outstanding Speaker Award.
The intense secrecy surrounding Theranos' methodology always created more questions than answers. But now that the public and federal government are starting to get those answers, it appears the other shoe has finally dropped.
In out latest round of case studies, we see a behavioral health provider in Iowa who was experiencing a payment gap due to the delayed start of a new managed Medicaid product, a pathology group that potentially lost $758,000 in…
Stark President Mick Raich talks consolidation in healthcare and what this could mean to your medical practice revenue.
Have you heard of Extended DRG, or Diagnostic Related Group? If not, you will. Watch as Stark President Mick Raich explains what this means to you and your medical practice.
Recently we were asked by a large national billing service, “why would the medical practice hire you?” Later that week we audited one of their practices and found where the same biller had underpriced the client’s fee schedule to the…