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In today’s healthcare environment, it is imperative to ensure your medical practice performs its billing and coding function at the highest level possible.

The University Children’s Health Heart Center at University Health System is designed for the care and comfort of patients and their families, designed to meet their physical and emotional needs.

When reviewing claims in the practice management system, you notice many claims have been paid at 100 percent of the practice’s fee schedule. Further review shows the practice’s fee schedule has not been updated in the past few years, and the current fee schedule is less than the Medicare allowables. Your research also shows the practice has been losing revenue for the past few years because it has been undercharging for its services.

With more than 150 physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants providing care to patients in more than 22 locations in the San Antonio area, University Medicine Associates is one of the largest provider groups around — and arguably among the least well-known.

The Texas Liver Tumor Center provides a one-stop location to serve patients with liver cancer and their families.

With a spot in Forbes’ Top 10 list of Fastest-Growing Cities and Milken Institute’s 2015 Best-Performing Cities report1, it’s no wonder why medical professionals are looking to relocate to the San Antonio area. While a strong job market and a surplus of people to serve is enticing to individuals in the healthcare industry, relocating is not always as simple as a quick move. Fortunately, there are fantastic resources, including relocation experts, to help transferees make their move as smooth as possible.

Your business is expanding. Perhaps, you are contracting. Relocation to a larger or smaller space is in your immediate future. You have carefully scoured the online world and realized that commercial properties are not as readily searchable as their residential counterparts. Viewing a survey of commercial real estate meeting your specific needs requires another approach — reliance upon a commercial real estate professional.

With its doctors’ ability to quarterback comprehensive cardiac and vascular treatment, extensive involvement in clinical research and technology development, and deep commitment to the local South Texas population, the Department of Cardiology at UT Medicine is quickly becoming the area’s preferred choice for cardiovascular care.

Bethany Coomes was about to step through the back door of her Universal City home just as the flash enveloped her 7-year-old daughter Stella in the backyard. Her 13-year-old son, who was fond of creating experiments — “the day before it was cornstarch and water,” Bethany says — was constructing a flaming moat in the backyard, pouring rubbing alcohol into a bowl and lighting it with a grill lighter.