Oncology billing and coding is highly specialized due to the complex and long-duration treatment procedures involved in cancer care. As patients undergo various tests, pre- and post-procedural visits, and multiple stages of treatment, ensuring proper documentation and payment tracking at every stage is critical for timely reimbursements.
Oncology billing requires navigating through intricate processes, making it essential for healthcare providers to rely on administrative support to manage the reimbursement cycle effectively.
- Tracking copayments, deductibles, and fee schedules.
- Regular code audit checks to ensure the use of appropriate codes.
- Generating custom reports to analyze cash flow and manage accounts receivable.
Massachusetts, the state with one of the highest taxes is considered one of the most affluent states, but the cost of healthcare is considered as one of the basics and physicians across the state are trying to reduce healthcare costs. Experts working on your reimbursement make sure you have better collections.
Since the last 10 years our medical billers and have been providing medical billing and coding as well as accounts receivables follow up and practice management service to Massachusetts physicians.
Certified medical billing and coding professionals who have an extensive experience in all specialties, are available in all cities such as Boston, Worcester, Springfield, Lowell and Cambridge. They have shown skills for lowest claim denials and fastest reimbursement. Some of the services which our medical billers are proficient in are;
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Electronic claims submission
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Tracking of claims
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Patient statements
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Payment posting
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Customized monthly report
Comprehensive Medical Billing Services in Massachusetts
MBC experts in Massachusetts have been providing medical billing and coding services for over 25 years, ensuring improved collections and optimized revenue cycles for physicians. Despite the state's high healthcare costs, our MBC billers help reduce overhead and manage accounts receivables efficiently.
MBC coding specialists are based in major cities such as Boston, Worcester, Springfield, Lowell, and Cambridge, and are skilled in handling all specialties. Our key services include:
- Electronic claims submission
- Tracking of claims
- Patient statements
- Payment posting
- Customized monthly reports
Massachusetts Medical Billing Specialists Drive Practice Growth
Our MBC billers understand the complexities of medical billing and work to maintain your practice’s cash flow while ensuring HIPAA compliance and timely follow-ups. Our expertise has led to reduced claim denials and faster reimbursement rates.
MBC billers are well-versed in Massachusetts’ state regulations, which they integrate into their billing practices. By outsourcing your medical billing, you can increase collections significantly, optimize operations, and improve profitability. Our experience with multiple billing software platforms ensures a streamlined, efficient process that helps your practice grow steadily.
Oncology entails complex and long drawn out treatment procedures in the process of providing preventive and curative cancer care. As the patients go through the innumerable tests and pre- and post-procedural visits, they need authorizations and rigorous follow-up with the physician. Consequently, the billing and coding process is quite complicated as the documentation and tracking of payments at each stage clinical service is critical for getting reimbursement on time. In order to focus on their patients’ healthcare, the doctors have to fall back on administrative support to manage their reimbursement process.
This is where our oncology billing and coding specialists can support health care providers. Our billers and coders are certified, tech-savvy, experienced, and have a track record of providing error-free and denial-free billing and coding services nationwide. These billing experts consistently upgrade and adapt their professional knowledge in order to provide a pro-active approach and optimum skill set to ensure a healthy revenue return for your practice.
Because of their impressive credentials, our billers and coders have been the preferred choice of individual physicians, clinics, multispecialty groups, hospitals, and diagnostic centers across the nation. Here is quick glance of our affiliates’ credentials:
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Certification from The American Association of Professional Coders (AAPC)
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Familiar with medical billing softwares like EHR Software: NextGen Healthcare, Epic, Cerner, AthenaOne, NueMD, TherapyNotes, DrChrono, eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, Athenahealth, Practice Fusion, TherapyNotes etc.
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Trained on coding software.
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Being able to apply standard CPT, HCPCS procedure and supply codes, and ICD-CM diagnosis coding as per CMS guidelines
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Successful track-record of processing medical bills with leading commercial carriers such as United health, WellPoint, Aetna, Humana, HCSC, Blue Cross Group, etc.
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Ability to negotiate successfully with Medicare and state-specific Medicaid policies.
Applying qualitative credentials to diverse services
Our billers and coders handle diverse billing and coding services to optimize revenue generation and patient influx for physicians while relieving them to focus on research and development.
Extent of oncology services billed and coded by our experts
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Billing and coding of clinical services, wherein the prime focus is on billing and coding of certain systemic treatments such as chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and radiotherapy to treat patients with both curative and palliative aims appropriately
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Billing and coding of diagnosis and treatment procedures for cancers of the female reproductive system
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Billing and coding of services involving diagnosis and treatment procedures for cancers of the blood and lymphatic system
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Billing and coding of radiation services such as ultrasound, computed tomography (CT) computed axial tomography, nuclear medicine, positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to diagnose or treat cancers
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Billing and coding of surgical services
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Billing and coding of histopathology services comprising biopsy procedures for determining type and stage of cancer
Value delivery to physicians
The physicians who conscientiously chose to outsourced their oncology billing and coding services have been able to reap advantages of our proactive billing management cycle, which has yielded radical benefits such as:
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Simplification of revenue cycle
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Appreciable increase in collection rates
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More patient inflow and referrals
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Increased avenue for research and development by physicians