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 billers and coders in Maryland work with the sole purpose of providing quality medical billing services to physicians. They are dedicated to providing you regular cash flow for your practice since they have an overall understanding of the dynamic nature of healthcare insurance. This knowledge and understanding has come to them as a result of years of training in the state of Maryland.
These billers believe in being close to their physicians to resolve any issues that may spring up and therefore are present in all cities of Maryland like Baltimore, Rockville, Frederick, Gaithersburg and Columbia. Besides they have the required expertise to successfully operate with different specialties across all healthcare practices. Some of the services which our medical billers specialize in are:
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Coding with CPT and ICD-10
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Electronic submission of claims
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Accounts receivable management
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Patient billing and collections
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Customized reporting
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Compliance to HIPAA and other rules and regulations
Comprehensive Medical Billing Services in Maryland
MBC experts in Maryland provide quality medical billing services to physicians, ensuring consistent cash flow. With 25 years of experience and a deep understanding of healthcare insurance, we’re equipped to navigate billing complexities. Our MBC billers are located in major cities like Baltimore, Rockville, Frederick, Gaithersburg, and Columbia, offering specialized services tailored to each physician's needs. Key services include:
- Coding with CPT and ICD-10
- Electronic submission of claims
- Accounts receivable management
- Patient billing and collections
- Customized reporting
- HIPAA compliance and adherence to other healthcare regulations
Maryland Medical Billing Specialists Financially Empowering Your Practice
MBC billers are dedicated to relieving your staff of excessive multitasking, increasing both productivity and profitability within your practice. Our ability to design efficient billing patterns and smoothen workflow can significantly enhance your operations in just a few weeks. We have been serving local physicians for years and maintain strong relationships with both public and commercial carriers, ensuring efficient processes for your practice.
MBC billers in Maryland are well-versed in state regulations and leverage their extensive experience to ensure your practice’s billing is compliant. This knowledge and expertise allow them to maximize revenue, reduce costs, and support the federal government's efforts to reduce healthcare costs. By outsourcing your medical billing, you could see significant improved collection.
With accurate coding, code audits, and timely insurance follow-ups, MBC billers in Maryland are focused on achieving higher profitability for your clinic. Our experience with a variety of billing software and certifications ensures that your practice will grow steadily while maintaining high standards of service and compliance.
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. 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.
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.
