Pharmacy is an integral part of healthcare, and, just like other disciplines of healthcare, it also poses certain billing challenges that may often be difficult to manage internally. Moreover, because certain drugs are excluded from insurance coverage and only a few injections and adjuvant therapies allowed, it may require experts to judge the efficacy either including or excluding the drugs during billing.
To complicate matters further, pharmacy-related reimbursements require multiple levels of data handling and follow-ups as in most cases. Although it is a separate set of medical service and provided from a separate facility, claims are prepared and submitted together by hospitals or nursing homes – either because they come later in the care chain or because it forms a small part of the care services hospitals provide. This joint-claim preparation and submission leads to a greater potential for inaccurate Data handling and denied claims.
With a vast experience in medical billing and coding, our Georgia medical billers accommodate physician’s individual needs and provide value added services. They have more than 10 years of medical billing experience and have provided back office operations like billing and collections to physicians in major cities like Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus, Savannah and Athens and also are updated with the ever changing rules and regulations in billing. They have proven their expertise in billing functions like:
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Electronic and paper claims submission
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Follow up on denied claims
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Usage of CPT, ICD-9 and HCPCS codes
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Tailor made monthly financial report
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Accounts receivables management
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