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.
Many providers in Washington are exploring various options of optimizing their billing and medical billing process by hiring specialists locally. These physicians expect their specialists to handle their medical billing and be involved with any day to day operations.
They can help you streamline your medical billing process by customizing the services which will ultimately decrease your efforts and increase your productivity. These certified Medical Billing Specialists are located in major cities like Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Vancouver and Bellevue and provide services such as:
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Timely submission of electronic claims
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Posting EOB and verifying ERA postings
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Preparation of patient statement
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Accounts receivable management
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Handling Billing and reimbursement inquiries
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Verifying Benefits of patients
Specialized Medical Billing Services in Washington
Our specialized medical billing services in Washington support healthcare providers across Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Vancouver, and Bellevue. We deliver comprehensive Revenue cycle management solutions, including electronic claims submission, ERA verification, patient statement management, and strategic accounts receivable oversight.
Understanding Washington's stringent fraud prevention measures and Department of Social and Health Services requirements, our experts ensure complete compliance while maximizing legitimate reimbursements. Through detailed analysis of partial payments and denials, we implement effective appeals processes to optimize revenue recovery.
Washington Medical Billing Specialists Enhance Practice Performance
Our medical billing experts in Washington combine local expertise with proven revenue optimization strategies. Through efficient benefits verification, proactive claims management, and systematic payment tracking, we help practices improve collections by 20%.
Our certified medical coding team maintains a thorough understanding of state regulations, providing customized solutions that reduce administrative burdens and increase productivity.
By leveraging advanced billing knowledge and established processes, we help Washington medical practices achieve sustainable growth while meeting federal cost-reduction initiatives. This comprehensive approach enables healthcare providers to maintain strong financial performance while ensuring regulatory compliance.
With a claim partially paid or rejected, it is important that the explanation of partial payment or rejection is looked into and understood by billing experts.
Our billers in Washington can take care of that. They would track and deal with even the last dollar on your behalf. Some of these billers specialize in writing appeals and reversing denials.
They also understand the efforts taken up by the state legislators to reduce and detect fraud and insurance abuse. They strive to provide the best medical billing and coding practices and conform to the Department of Social and Health Services.
Take the time to evaluate the best resource in the industry, as this one-time investment will ensure you a lifetime of trouble-free medical billing in Washington.
Our Billers in the state of Washington are specialized to service medical practices as per the regulations of the state government. Their knowledge and experience have been acquired by years of effort in perfecting medical billing procedures, which they now leverage to help your practice collect more revenue.
The federal government’s effort to reduce healthcare costs can only be supported by physicians in the state of Washington by optimizing costs and enhancing revenue. Let a Leading Medical billing company handle your medical billing. This can help you increase collections by 20%.
Accurate Coding and code audit, along with timely insurance follow-up and account receivables, are the basis on which these billers in Washington 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.
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.
