“Ngihlale kakhulu emazweni angaphandle. Angisitholanga nesikhathi sokukhulisa kahle izingane zami ezimbili. The need to increase the productivity at a reduced cost while providing the best service to the patient is the reason why health care professionals go for insurance billing software. Doctors have been using the software to manage their finances for quite a long time. But software is doing wonders in the health care system. Today's software gives a comprehensive solution to the health care professional's back office work. This is well known as medical practice management software. The software does everything from scheduling the appointment of the patient to the collection of reimbursement.Most of the available billing software products in the market are HIPAA compliant. However, some of them may be only partly HIPAA compliant. When health facilities use complete HIPAA compliant software, there is no scope for the violation of the regulation. So, physicians don't have to worry about the penalties of violation of HIPAA.Insurance billing software reports any past due payments to both patients and insurance companies and notifies the employees about any balance or co-payment to be paid by the patient. So, medical office employees are more informed about patient's payments and help them to collect the co-payment, which if not collected on time can lead to complications later.Automation of generating the reports and statements has reduced the requirement of back office personnel in the health care facility. Entering the data and retrieving them are so much convenient with the use of software; it saves time and makes it more efficient. Insurance billing software helps to streamline the process of billing and takes of the pressure off employees. So, the productivity and efficiency of the staff has improved to a greater extent.Insurance billing software can be either client server or application service provider. Client server requires a front end payment. This has to be installed in the medical office computer and is linked to only the local network. The disadvantage of this is that, any glitch in the software makes it necessary to hire some IT staff, as health care professionals cannot fix it. Where as, in application service provider, the server is located in the software companies data base. The software company manages the technology, recovery and other maintenance. This kind of software is usually paid on monthly basis.Whether it is client server or application service provider, the health care professionals need to have some kind of training to operate this. Most of the medical billing courses train their students in this aspect. Insurance billing software is a basic requirement for a well geared organization. It is a cost effective way to improve the productivity.