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The mandatory reporting – using appropriate modifiers, time units for actual administration, prevalent stringent coding and privacy norms – has begun to take a heavy toll of Anesthesiology physicians, depriving them of the quality time that could have improved their medical efficiency substantially. The intricacies involved in medical billing unlike the clinical practice itself, which physicians manage with ease and efficiency, have made it a specialist job.
Our anesthesiology medical billing service management, which prides itself on the highest qualification and expertise, has been significant in ensuring maximum reimbursement of claims, resulting in greater revenues, patient inflow and referrals, and physicians’ medical efficiency.
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:
The requirement of billers and coders in the New York City area as well as the Trio-State region is swelling and procurement is becoming increasingly difficult in the expensive state of New York.
As stated by the United States Bureau of Statistics, there will be a severe shortage of almost 50,000 medical billers and coders by the year 2015. Since we already have the largest number of billers in New York, you can locate a biller of your choice in almost all the major cities.
Our Billers in the state of New York are specialized to service medical practices as per the regulations of the state government. Their knowledge and experience has been acquired by years of efforts in perfecting medical billing procedures which they now leverage to help your practice collect more revenue.
The federal government’s effort to reduce healthcare cost can only be supported by physicians in the state of New York by optimizing costs and enhancing revenue. Letting a specialist handle your medical billing can help you improve collections by 20%.
Accurate Coding and code audit along with timely insurance follow up and account receivables are the basis on which thesebillers in New York guarantee higher profitability for your clinic. Their experience in various software and certification in the medical billing processes will support your practice to grow steadily.
Assigning appropriate modifiers to diverse situational procedures and reporting them in time units (in minutes) has been core to our policy of unique value propositions in Anesthesiology billing management. Consider the following list of modifiers scrupulously applied to diverse procedures that determine whether the procedure was personally performed, medically directed, or medically supervised.
| Modifiers | Procedures |
| AA | Services personally performed by the provider |
| AD | Medical supervision by a physician; more than four concurrent units of administration |
| G8 | Monitored administration |
| G9 | MAC for at-risk patient |
| QK | Medical direction of two, three or four concurrent procedures involving qualified individuals |
| QS | Monitored administration |
| QX | CRNA service with medical direction by a physician |
| QY | Medical direction of one CRNA by a physician |
| QZ | CRNA service without medical direction by a physician |
With the sole objective of achieving maximum claim reimbursement, our Anesthesiology billing services specialists set themselves high standards in professional efficiency. Having to meet high expectancy level amidst stringent coding and billing system, our professionals continually upgrade their competence to match ‘best practices in medical coding and billing’ physician services.
Engaging our Anesthesiology billing and coding professionals’ services – capable of delivering the following manifold benefits to your anesthesiology practice – is indeed a prudent decision to maximize you claim-reimbursement, and clinical efficiency:
It is natural that our Anesthesiology billing management – which prides on the following set of highest qualifications and expertise: American Association of Professional Coders (AAPC) certified; expertise on advanced billing and coding software; experience in application of standard Current Procedural Terminology (CPT), HCPCS procedure and supply codes, and ICD-CM coding as per CMS guidelines for successful management of billing and coding of diverse procedures; and successful track-record of processing diverse medical bills with the leading private insurance carriers such as United health, Wellpoint, Aetna, Humana, HCSC, Blue Cross Group, and Government sponsored Medicare and Medicaid – will propel your reimbursement rate to an all-time high.
