As a physician or medical caregiver, most of your focus will be on delivering exceptional patient care services. You will raise invoices for services rendered too, but may not keep a track of what’s going on with them. Insurance companies in the US deny tens of thousands of medical claims every year due to varied…
You can start by asking: What exactly is a “surprise” medical bill? Well, put simply, it’s a bill that occurs when a person seeks care at an in-network hospital or healthcare facility but is treated by an out-of-network physician. They’re also called “out-of-network balance bills”, they’re usually unexpected to the patient and they tend to…
As a physician, it’s never easy to manage patients and billing at the same time. Your expertise lies in the former, but even then, you cannot overlook the need to get the cash flow going. Having said that, handling medical billing isn’t easy itself. Frequent medical billing and coding updates only keep making it difficult…
The second Thanksgiving during a pandemic is just days away. Almost everyone is busy preparing and getting ready to celebrate the holiday. While some of you are making plans to hit the road to meet your near and dear ones, there are others who have postponed travel plans in favor of staying at home and…
Working in tandem, medical billing and coding translate your doctor’s visit into languages that form the claim that is submitted for the purpose of reimbursement. The processes are separate, but both are pivotal for the practitioner to receive payment from the insurance company of the patient. The entire process of medical billing and coding begins…
Normal thought process: “I have jumped through all the proverbial hoops, dotted every i and crossed every t, even some x and dotted j’s too… why are my claims still being denied?” Well, if this isn’t a tale as old as time, we don’t know what is. Let’s go through some steps we like to…
As a healthcare practitioner, your staff and your biggest worries should be your patients’ health and your high-quality service to such, not medical billing claims. Outsourcing your medical billing claims can seem like a daunting task and feel like you’ll lose all oversight of your billing, but the reality isn’t quite so dramatic and much…
It’s your medical practice that saves numerous lives daily. However, you need a continuous revenue flow to keep delivering and improving service delivery. That can be very challenging, especially if you don’t have competitive medical billers on your team. You can definitely hire Central Florida medical billing services which can ease things for your practice…
Halloween is the perfect holiday to see children dressed up as goblins and ghouls, trick-or-treating, and having fun celebrating. October 31 is a holiday that children wait excitedly for. But unfortunately Halloween is also the holiday when urgent care medical centers see a rise in patient visits, especially those of children with injuries and allergic…
It is estimated that over 40% of medical claims in the U.S. have varied discrepancies. This is understandable since there are more than 300 services listed under Emergency Room (ER) services alone. Not all of them are entitled to insurance reimbursement. The problem with ER services is not only about managing the insurance claims. The…
