MEDICAL BILLERS IN New York City , NY
MBC provides Medical Billing Services in New York City, New York, supporting physician groups, multi-specialty practices, and outpatient facilities across the region. Our billing operations integrate directly with your existing workflows to reduce denials, accelerate collections, and maintain compliance across all major payers active in the New York market. Explore our New York City Medical Billing Services to see how MBC supports revenue cycle performance for practices in New York City.
Although plastic surgery is generally indentified as a looks enhancement medical procedure, in many cases it’s done to address genuine health concerns. And often a singular treatment episode may include both: measures to address health concerns (reconstruction) and improve looks (cosmetic).
This tangled nature of plastic surgeries often presents a considerable challenge to patients and surgeons as surgeries done purely for cosmetic purposes are not covered under insurance while the ones performed to address genuine health issues are.
This leads to incorrect verification of insurance entitlement often leading to time spent on preparing claims for surgeries that don’t enjoy insurance eligibility or oversight of components of a surgical treatment that come under insurance coverage. Both instances affect the revenues of the plastic surgeon or the clinic of which he/she is a part.
Our medical billers in New York City, NY have reduced the tedious and time consuming medical billing tasks which are responsible for the ultimate revenue collection. The experience of our billers and coders in streamlining New York City, NY provider’s billing procedures so that they can devote more time, energy and resources in providing the highest level of patient care. These Biller’s leverage their technology as well as domain expertise in your specialty to service your practice better. Their expertise lies in:
- Excellent understanding of fee schedules, Medicaid and commercial payer regulations
- Answering all patient queries regarding billing appropriately
- Compliance to HIPAA rules and regulations to ensure accurate billing
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In 2009, the population of New York was figured around 1,629,054 but there are 157 physicians per 100,000 against an US average of 221. Thus it can be said that the pressure on these physicians to cater to the population may be higher. The administrative jobs and claims filing will also be higher. A huge requirement for Medical Billers and Coders is felt in the New York City region to handle physicians administrative jobs.
The future of a medical biller and coder is not only brilliant in New York city but the entire state of New York. There is a high demand for medical billers and coders in New York City area and also the rest of the Tri-State region. The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics states that there will be a severe shortage; almost 50,000 qualified medical billers and coders by 2015. This would mean that medical billers and coders are going to be difficult to source.
In an effort to make it easier for physicians to locate us easily, Medical billers and coders across New York State and United States have come together and are listed below:
Physicians in New York are increasingly preferring to have professional Medical billers and coders manage their billing process. Numerous physicians have observed that the cost of maintaining these professionals can be very high too thus an increasing trend in looking out for expert billers locally who may or may not be associated with the practice full time.
With an average of 10 years of medical billing and coding experience, our certified billers are available to service your practice in any city of New York including the New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers and Syracuse.
They help practices protect patient information, minimize interruptions in cash flow by due to staff turnover and absences, elimination of backlogs and providing continuity of revenue collections. You can count on them for medical billing and coding services where they can help you to:
- Increase revenue steadily
- Faster claims processing as they are dedicated to billing not multi-tasking
- Follow up on rejected or partially paid claims
- Consulting in coding to increase revenue through better code utilization
- Adopting best Medical Billing practices and recovering collections quickly
Outsourcing to MBC:
MBC’s medical billing and coding services cover the entire range of insurance-claim-related requirements for plastic surgery, starting from eligibility verification of the patient to claim submission and post submission follow-ups.
Plastic surgery practices lose significant revenue through misclassified reconstructive claims denied as cosmetic, undercoded tissue flap and wound repair complexity, and multi-procedure operative sessions reduced by incorrect modifier application that payers exploit without pushback.
MBC's Revenue Diagnostic evaluates your plastic surgery billing at the procedure, payer, and operative session level — identifying where reconstructive complexity is being downcoded, which skin substitute and post-mastectomy reconstruction claims are failing adjudication and why, and how your AR aging compares against specialty benchmarks. The output is a clear, actionable breakdown of the revenue your practice is currently leaving uncollected.
With years of experience in dealing with plastic surgery cases in particular and insurance claim preparation and submission in general, our medical billers and coders understand the nature of your organization, its size and scale and bring to you an approach that’s customized to your specific needs.
It helps you meet your administrative and technical responsibilities involved in claim preparation and submission and improve your finances.
MBC delivers this both through a consulting model where it helps you to streamline your revenue management cycle by recommending appropriate software applications, helping plug sources of revenue leakages and trainings where required, and also outsource your entire billing and coding responsibilities to MBC.
Plastic surgery billing operates at one of the most complex reimbursement boundaries in healthcare — where revenue depends on the precise segregation of reconstructive and cosmetic services, accurate documentation of medical necessity for insurance-covered procedures, and the correct application of modifiers across multi-procedure operative sessions that payers challenge routinely.
MBC acts as your Revenue Integrity Partner by ensuring that every plastic surgery encounter is coded to its highest defensible specificity, reconstructive vs. cosmetic service boundaries are correctly maintained at the claim level, and payer policies around skin substitute applications, tissue flap complexity, and post-mastectomy reconstruction sequencing are executed with precision — so your practice retains every dollar it clinically justifies.
Some of the popular procedures that our billers and coders recommend could be problem areas in your revenue leakage:
Breast Reconstruction :
Although a type of plastic surgery, it is for the most part a complex reconstructive or health-related procedure, where, if the attendant health risks are not adequately addressed, the patient would go through long suffering and be faced with serious health hazards.
This being the nature of the surgery, it often presents the physician with the challenge of separating the parts of the procedure that are covered by Medicaid and the parts that aren’t. Our medical billers are coders are adept in handling these complexities and helping you prepare an air-tight claim with minimal chances of denial.
Palatoplasty :
A surgery to repair cleft palate, this procedure involves parts that are not purely cosmetic but reconstructive presenting the challenge to physicians or clinicians to identify such parts of the procedure as would be eligible for insurance reimbursement.
Our medical billers are coders are skilled in helping you conclusively separate the parts of the procedure that have reconstructive character and therefore insurance eligibility from parts that don’t.
Blepharoplasty :
A procedure to correct hooded eyelids, even though it’s cosmetic in nature, it is a surgical correction of a defect with the potential to damage a body part – the eye – and therefore reconstructive in parts at least.
We help you identify the reconstructive areas of the procedure to ensure you are reimbursed for them.
Rhinoplasty (nose job):
It involves correction of a part of the nose that, if not properly aligned, can affect the functioning of the nose. However, as Rhinoplasty is broadly cosmetic in nature, physicians often overlook this reconstructive element which is eligible for reimbursement.
MBC’s billing and coding professionals have helped health care providers involved in plastic surgery bring down their insurance denial rates substantially leading to timely payment of their services and optimal use of their staff either by helping them to focus solely on healthcare or by providing consultancy services so that they handle their revenue management responsibilities more effectively with the help of appropriate software applications and smoother and easy-to-follow processes.
MBC will help you perform the perfect plastic surgery by taking over what MBC does best so that you have to only do what you do best – surgery.
Plastic surgery is a procedure-intensive, documentation-driven specialty where revenue leakage accumulates through reconstructive-cosmetic misclassification, missed add-on codes across complex wound repair and flap procedures, and medical necessity documentation gaps that give payers grounds for denial without internal detection.
MBC helps plastic surgery practices Yield your EBITDA by maximizing reimbursement on high-complexity reconstructive procedures and multi-stage operative sessions, reducing denials on tissue flap, skin substitute, and post-mastectomy reconstruction claims, and ensuring that every billable service performed — from complex wound closures to microsurgical reconstructions — is captured, coded, and collected in full. The result is a billing operation that turns your surgical complexity directly into sustainable financial performance.