As the insurance reimbursement environment becomes increasingly stringent, the incidence of denials, delays, underpayments, and lost or ignored claims seems to be on the rise. Consider this interesting statistics compiled by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS: 70% of claims are paid the first time they are submitted; 30% of claims are either […]
Medical Billing and Coding Services in USA
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How Medical Billing Services Contribute to Retaining Patients at Your Facilities
The intense competition in the healthcare industry is triggering unprecedented benefits to the patient fraternity. While the quality of medical care has improved by leaps and bounds, patients now, have choices and alternatives just in case they feel deterioration in the perceived level of medical care. This sudden shift in favor of patients means physicians […]
Medical Billing Services: A Safe Passage for Denial and Delay Management
Payer denials and delays is a cause of worry for every doctor in the US. A denied or a delayed claim leads to loss of revenue for the physician. To top it all the physicians are now looking at an uncertain future working in the Medicare program due to introduction of reimbursement cuts. In the […]
Improve your Revenue by Overcoming Hurdles in EMR Implementation
There has been a definite improvement in the United States in the adoption of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and its implementation in the last decade (2001-2011). A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that 57 percent of office-based physicians in the country have adopted EMRs. However, 34 percent of physicians only […]
AR aging over to 120 days – Is it Prudent to opt for a medical billing service?
Accounts receivables (A/R) management is a vital element of revenues for physicians and forms a crucial part of a physician’s revenue because of the role of insurance companies and other similar entities in the whole revenue cycle process. There are several methods of managing accounts receivables and there are no common techniques of evaluating this […]
Appealing a Claim- Will a Standard Format Work to Improve Your Practice’s Medical Billing?
The procedure of appealing an insurance claim is intricate, although it can be successful if completed properly because there are many grounds for claims to be denied by an insurance company or a payer. The payer collects a lot of claims on a daily basis and the claim can be easily denied if there has […]
‘Pay-as-you-go’ as a value-based medical billing service model
While we are not alien to the term ‘pay-as-you-go’, it is something that is catching the imagination of physicians opting for outsourced medical billing services. Unlike in the past, when ‘pay-as-you-go’ was sporadically availed by a few physicians, it is now emerging as a viable alternative to long-term contractual medical billing services. Well… what is […]
The Growing Emphasis on Medicare-Specific Medical Billing Services
Medicare, which continues to remain as the nation’s largest public health insurance scheme covering nearly half the United States’ population in its health insurance ambit, has gone through considerable reforms over the years. In fact, the evolution of Medicare can be defined as: Phase-I when it actually used to reimburse physicians the actual cost of […]
How do modifiers increase your AR by more than 60 days?
The number of days a physician’s takes to collect their receivables is a good indicator of how well the physician’s clinic is collecting its accounts receivables. Industry standards state that organizations which were considered as “better-performing medical practices” – excelled in four performance management categories, one of which were Accounts Receivable and Collections. Depicting that […]
MBC’s job board for increased job prospects!
MBC has recently launched a job board to lessen the complexity of bringing physicians and coders together, eventually working as an easy-to-use interface between them through the facility on job listing. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Medical billers and coders are considered to be in high demand among the allied health […]