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Wound care has acquired a new significance as a healthcare discipline and due to a growing aging population in the US; a sizable portion suffer from ailments that expose them to the risk of wounds that require protracted wound care treatment.
The challenge it presents to physicians, hospitals and also to patients is that all types of wound care are not covered by insurance and the ones that are covered require a series of administrative activities, like proper documentation with accurate detailing of medical details of the treatment episode to establish insurance eligibility, which also involves maintaining and furnishing details to establish that the treatment was administered upon the advice of a physician and carried out in the physician’s presence when required.
But even before starting this cumbersome process to prepare and submit claims, care providers have to determine whether the wound treatment they are claiming reimbursement for is covered by the insurance coverage policy framed by Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), which requires familiarity not just with medical necessities but also with insurance coverage.
Our medical billers and coders stationed in New Jersey, provide physicians with the latest in reimbursement strategies and government updates in terms of healthcare industry. Their presence across all major cities such as Newark, Jersey City, Patterson, Elizabeth and Edison offer Physicians options to locate well trained Medical Billers and coders easily.
These medical billers are equipped to reduce your overhead as well as perform complex administrative tasks. Their services guarantee many advantages and can help you to:
The state of New Jersey happens to be the most densely populated and wealthiest state in United States, those are the real indicators of why healthcare is sprawling in the state. Thus, the growing need for number of physicians and a lot of medical billing specialists to support these practices is far from being fulfilled.
These Billers are well acquainted with the payers’ community in New Jersey and track major reasons for denials and plug these avenues of revenue loss first. Their detailed analysis helps you to collect more revenue as per your specialty and maintain high collections regularly.
Our New Jersey medical billers and coders also provide practice management software that ensures that physicians can keep up with the latest health care IT reforms and improvements. They are experienced in the field of patient statements processing, claims management, fee schedules evaluation, insurance collections, and the capability of establishing effective relationships with insurance companies and patients.
Our medical billing and coding team is experienced in insurance collections which can be a tiresome job for a medical biller who lacks experience in this area. They also know how vital timely insurance collections are for the doctors.
By using EMR software that is efficient, our medical billers and coders take minimal amount of time for patient statement processing which can be an increasing burden because of the growing requirement for medical services.
Medical coders and billers at medicalbillersandcoders.com also have professional relationships with key insurance companies across New Jersey so that any setback or errors in claims management can be circumvented in right in the beginning.
The services of medical coding and billing that are provided are not limited to big cities such as Newark, Jersey City, Patterson, Elizabeth and Edison but also all other counties in the state. Moreover, our coders and billers specialize in all the branches of medicine such as Optometry, chiropractic, OB Gyn, Pediatrics, oncology, urology, Family Practice and Hospitalist Billing .All the medical billers and coders at medicalbillersandcoders.com are familiar with ICD9 and CPT Coding which make them preferable choices for physicians and health care providers. Many of our medical billers and coders also offer value added services through specific services such as evaluating fee schedules, helping you prepare online super bills and diagnosing the key grounds for denials.
In New Jersey many physicians are finding it a difficult to digitize their practice and switch to EMRs which would be part of the health care reform. Our medical billers and coders are specialized and experienced in a wide range of software which offers you a choice of the most efficient and updated Medical Billers and coders trained on the latest EMR systems in the market.
These include Medisoft, Misys Tiger, Eclinicalworks, Advance MD, GE Centricity and Altapoint. These EMR would ensure that your office productivity is increased along with the efficiency of the services that you provide as a physician to your patients.
New Jersey has the highest density of population in the United States and the low rate of physicians who are starting to adopt Electronic Medical Records would mean that health care providers would be scrambling to meet the adoption deadlines.
The billing and coding services assist physicians with various EMRs and are experienced with specialized knowledge about the changes related to medical billing, coding, HIPAA guidelines, denial management, patient statement processing, claims management and ability to have long term and effective relationships with patients and insurance companies.
MBC’s team of medical billers and coders are experienced in handling the entire cycle of activities ranging from determining insurance eligibility to submitting claims and performing routine follow-ups. However, wound care being a treatment that’s administered by care providers of all sizes and also independent physicians, choosing a billing and coding service model which is scalable enough to fit any size and need becomes a challenge for care providers.
MBC offers two types of service models, one an outsourced billing and coding and another revenue management consulting model:
Both the models have helped big and small care providers involved in wound care in all the states of the US to overcome the challenge presented by administrative activities to claim insurance improve their revenues and optimize their in-house resources: either by streamlining processes and training them such that the staff have a thorough knowledge of activities they have to perform and details handle to prepare and claim insurance accurately minimizing chances of claim rejections or by thoroughly sparing themselves the responsibilities to handle insurance administrative activities themselves.
