MEDICAL BILLERS IN Birmingham , AL
MBC provides Medical Billing Services in Birmingham, Alabama, supporting physician groups, multi-specialty practices, and outpatient facilities across the region. Our billing operations integrate directly with your existing workflows to reduce denials, accelerate collections, and maintain compliance across all major payers active in the Alabama market. Explore our Birmingham Medical Billing Services to see how MBC supports revenue cycle performance for practices in Birmingham.
Extensive coverage of diverse Radiology medical billing
Radiology medical billing requires significant knowledge of CPT codes and appropriate modifiers. As radiologists, you may be bound by diagnostic priorities that limit your exposure to medical billing.
Clinical priorities cannot be excuses for failed medical billing, resulting in delay, denial, or resubmission of claims. Medical Billers and Coders offers to mitigate such adverse billing results with streamlined medical billing management for the entire range of radiology services such as:
- CPT code 73100 (x-ray examination wrist 2 views, both left and right) coded as CPT 73100RT & CPT 73100LT modifiers can also be coded as CPT73100-50 modifier
- Our experts updates for 2013 include that the CPT codes 78000 & 78001 codes( thyroid single & multiple determination) have been replaced by a single CPT code 78012
- While billing for CPT code 72040 (x-ray cervical spine)which was 2-3 views in 2012, has now been replaced by 3 views in 2013
Radiology billing is among the most interpretation-driven specialties in healthcare — with reimbursement tied directly to imaging modality specificity, technical versus professional component differentiation, contrast administration documentation, and the precise capture of laterality and body region distinctions that must be established with precision on every study.
MBC acts as your Revenue Integrity Partner by ensuring that every radiology procedure is coded to its highest defensible specificity, MIPS reporting requirements are met, and payer policies around global versus split billing, teleradiology arrangements, and bundling rules for multi-sequence imaging studies are applied correctly — so your practice retains every dollar it clinically justifies.
Our medical billers in Birmingham, AL have reduced the tedious and time consuming medical billing tasks which are responsible for the ultimate revenue collection. The experience of our billers and coders in streamlining Birmingham, AL provider’s billing procedures so that they can devote more time, energy and resources in providing the highest level of patient care. These Biller’s leverage their technology as well as domain expertise in your specialty to service your practice better. Their expertise lies in:
- Excellent understanding of fee schedules, Medicaid and commercial payer regulations
- Answering all patient queries regarding billing appropriately
- Compliance to HIPAA rules and regulations to ensure accurate billing
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Our expert billers in Birmingham are able to reduce the occurrences of denies claims and slow reimbursements. Birmingham practices have been greatly benefited from our services and have seen an increase in profit and reduction in their expenses. Birmingham though has accessible healthcare still has administrative problems of trained professionals.
These billing procedure followed by our Alabama billers can help you to with understanding your billing requirements precisely:
- Physician credentialing
- Timely submission of paper and electronic claims
- Accounts receivable management
- Customized financial report on a monthly basis
- Collections management
- Regular consultations on billing and coding issues
Our billers follow specific billing instruction of the State of Alabama, they help to make patients aware of the out of pocket expenses too, hence reducing patient billing collection calls. With the various insurance options provided by the Alabama Department of Insurance, our billers are aware of the options and billing requirement of each of these payers to steadily increase the revenue of your clinic.
In a state where 51% of insurance is employer provided, physicians must look for billers with experience across specialty and having number of experience in dealing with payers and patients alike.
Try our Billers in the Birmingham and surrounding area to match your requirements
In the state of Alabama, we have medical billers in all the major cities like Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile, Huntsville, Tuscaloosa. With more than 10 years of experience, our billers and coders provide accurate medical billing solutions. They are highly skilled in data entry along with coding and payment review.
Our Billers also take special interest in follow up of denied claims along with HIPAA compliance and privacy guidelines to protect patient information. The expertise gathered by them in various specialties help them in the following billing procedures too:
- Credentialing of providers
- Code auditing
- Claim submission either electronically or paper based
- Payment posting
- Recovery of account receivables
- Bone densitometry
- CAT scans of chest/thorax, abdomen, head/neck, pelvis/spine, and extremities
- MRI of chest, extremities, spine/pelvis, and head/neck
- Ultrasound of various internal organs, and Doppler/duplex-vascular ultrasound
- Nuclear medicine for limiting and curing internal disorders
- X-ray of different internal organs
Our radiology medical billing services are attributed with being affordable and efficient – while voluminous operations help us conduct business at physician-friendly fees, unwavering commitment to quality ensure that your medical billing, coding, submission and realization are carried out to the maximum efficiency.
As a result, there would be considerable appreciation in billing efficiency, revenues, and clinical efficiency.
Radiology practices lose significant revenue through undercoded imaging studies, missed contrast and guidance add-on codes, and incorrectly billed technical and professional component splits that payers routinely bundle or deny without pushback.
MBC's Revenue Diagnostic evaluates your radiology billing at the procedure and payer level — identifying where imaging complexity and modality specificity are being undercaptured, which interventional, diagnostic, and teleradiology claims are being denied and why, and how your AR aging compares against specialty benchmarks. The output is a clear, actionable breakdown of the revenue your radiology practice is currently leaving uncollected.
That is why majority of diagnostic centers across the 50 states in the U.S. make use of our billing services for a variety of diagnostic modalities, such as x-ray radiography, ultrasound, computed tomography (CT), nuclear medicine, positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and interventional radiology.
Significant utility of availing our experts’ services is that they are thoroughly trained and competent at applying right CPT codes for the diverse set of radiology services highlighted above, and appending suitable modifiers to mitigate undesirable consequences such as delay, denial, resubmission, and audit exposure.
You can also match your requirements with the skills of our expert radiology billers in your area.
MBC radiology medical billing and coding credentials:
Our extensive reach and voluminous operations are driven by our affiliates’ credentials, comprising:
- Certification from The American Association of Professional Coders (AAPC)
- Familiar with medical billing softwares like EHR Software: NextGen Healthcare, Epic, Cerner, AthenaOne, NueMD, TherapyNotes, DrChrono, eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, Athenahealth, Practice Fusion, TherapyNotes etc.
- Trained on coding software.
- Being able to apply standard CPT, HCPCS procedure and supply codes, and ICD-CM diagnosis coding as per CMS guidelines
- Successful track-record of processing Radiology medical bills with leading commercial carriers such as United health, WellPoint, Aetna, Humana, HCSC, Blue Cross Group, etc.
- Ability to negotiate successfully with Medicare and state-specific Medicaid policies.
MBC improve your RCM through pertinent intervention
Traversing the entire cycle of radiology billing management patient enrollment, insurance enrollment, scheduling, insurance verification, insurance authorizations, charge entry, coding, billing and reconciling of accounts, denial management & appeals and physician credentialing our medical billing specialists ensure simplification of revenue cycle, appreciable increase in collection rates, more patient inflow and referrals, and increased avenue for diagnostic research and development.
Radiology is a high-volume, study-driven specialty where thin margins can erode quickly if billing doesn't keep pace with modality documentation and payer-specific component billing arrangements.
MBC helps radiology practices Yield your EBITDA by maximizing reimbursement on complex interventional and diagnostic imaging procedures, reducing denials on technical and professional component claims and multi-sequence study combinations, and ensuring that every billable study performed in your imaging center, hospital outpatient department, or teleradiology operation — from routine diagnostic imaging through advanced interventional procedures — is captured, coded, and collected in full. The result is a billing operation that turns your study volume directly into sustainable financial performance.
While our current pool of radiology billing affiliates is sufficiently trained and compliant with current system of radiology medical billing, we are on course to be ready for ICD-10 and HIPAA 5010. Therefore, you can expect your radiology bills to be processed as per relevant clinical and operational norms.