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.
For more than a decade our medical billers have been providing outstanding medical billing solutions to providers in Missouri. Currently, we have medical billers catering to practices in Jackson, Gulfport, Hattiesburg, Biloxi and Southaven.
Our highly qualified staff of medical billers is experienced in billing and successful collection of your claims. Their in-depth knowledge and expertise allows physicians to concentrate on patient care and market their practice. Some of the services, our billers are specialized in:
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Charge entry and insurance verification
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Accurate entry of CPT and ICD-9 patient coding
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Accurate Payment posting
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Follow up on primary and secondary claims
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Collection of all aged account balances
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Customized month report
Medical billing can be considered to be a complicated service in terms of technicality and ever changing regulations, which make it quite difficult to standardize medical billing processes. To bring about some amount of uniformity in the process of billing and coding, the Coding Standards Committee developed new coding standards which also comprise a pool of designated coding and billing professionals. Our local billers and coders in Missouri have kept been following these changes on a regular basis.
Comprehensive Medical Billing Services in Missouri
MBC billers have been providing outstanding medical billing solutions to providers across Missouri for over two decades. Our experts cater to practices in major cities like Saint Louis and Springfield.
Our highly qualified team of medical billers is experienced in successful claims collection, allowing physicians to focus on patient care and practice growth. Some of our key services include:
- Charge entry and insurance verification
- Accurate CPT and ICD-10 patient coding
- Accurate payment posting
- Follow-up on primary and secondary claims
- Collection of aged account balances
- Customized monthly reports
Missouri Medical Billing Experts Maximizing Your Practice Revenue
Medical billing can be complex due to technicalities and ever-changing regulations. MBC experts in Missouri stay updated on the latest coding standards and regulations, ensuring compliance with Medicare, Medicaid, and all commercial insurance. MBC billers specialize in streamlining paper-based and electronic billing processes, following the latest fee schedules and payment criteria.
MBC coding specialists in Missouri have years of experience to help practices optimize revenue. Outsourcing your billing can improve collections, reduce costs, and boost profitability. Accurate coding, code auditing, and timely insurance follow-ups are important to ensuring higher profitability and steady growth for your clinic. Our billers' expertise with various billing software and medical billing processes ensures your practice thrives.
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