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The Top Barriers to Telehealth in 2026 

Key Takeaways on the Barriers to Telehealth The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated telehealth adoption almost overnight. But for rural hospitals and clinics, the barriers to telehealth haven’t disappeared, they’ve simply evolved. Today, the most common barriers to telehealth are: This article breaks down these common barriers to telehealth adoption for rural providers and what healthcare organizations

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RVU Analysis

Key Takeaways for RVU Analysis RVUs, or Relative Value Units, are non-monetary units used to quantify the relative value of medical services. RVUs are part of the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS). The RBRVS is a reimbursement methodology developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to help determine reimbursement rates for medical

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Insurance Allowed Amount and Why It Matters to Your Practice

Key Takeaways on the Insurance Allowed Amount A tricky part of medical billing is the insurance allowed amount, because each payer and even payer plans have different allowed amounts. And those amounts rarely match your actual billed amount. Billers can end up tracking allowed amounts for 10 to 20 different reimbursement schedules against billed charges

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Mastering Medical Practice Financial Management — How to Start

Key Takeaways on Medical Practice Financial Management Originally published October 2017. With electronic billing and digital medical records, medical practices have a lot of valuable data at their fingertips The key to mastering medical practice financial management is knowing which date to look at, how to find it, and how to put it to use

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What Is RHC and Why Rural Health Clinics Matter

Key Takeaway for What Is an RHC RHC is a federal designation given to outpatient care facilities by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The designation lets clinics receive higher reimbursements for outpatient primary care services for Medicare and Medicaid patients. RHCs provide critical primary care, routine laboratory services, and even basic emergency care

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Best Practices to Reduce Claim Denials in Healthcare

Keys to Reduce Claim Denials in Healthcare From 2022 to 2024, 75% of providers reported increased denial rates.1 And in 2025, 41% of providers reported denial rates of 10% or higher.2 That’s a larger percentage than in 2024 meaning denials are still going up. The time required to work denied claims combined with the ones

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