{"id":15527,"date":"2022-07-07T13:20:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T13:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcoders.com\/blog\/?p=15527"},"modified":"2025-06-16T14:42:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T14:42:59","slug":"primary-care-physicians-can-earn-more-with-outsourcing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcoders.com\/blog\/primary-care-physicians-can-earn-more-with-outsourcing\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary Care Physicians Can Earn More with Outsourcing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Primary Care Physicians are Leaving Money on the Table<\/span><\/h2>\r\n

According to a recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, primary care physicians left much money on the table for services provided but not coded and billed. This research estimates that a single primary care physician could add $124,435 in preventative services to their practice’s annual revenue if coding and billing practices were rectified.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School used national survey data to conclude that a single primary care physician (PCP) could add $124,435 in prevention services and $86,082 in coordination services to their annual revenue if coding and billing practices were resolved. They also estimated that each PCP provided preventive services worth up to $40,187 in additional revenue.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The survey also found that although services were provided to up to 60.6 percent of eligible patients, billing codes were only used at a median of 2.3 percent.<\/span> The survey suggests that navigating the eligibility, documentation, time, and component requirements of numerous separate codes may be too high of a hurdle to warrant the effort from PCPs to use prevention and coordination codes. The physician fee schedule dominates how primary care and other physicians are paid. However, primary care’s core features, continuous, comprehensive, and coordinated first-contact care, are poorly matched with visit-based payments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Don’t Let Inefficient Primary Care Billing and Coding<\/a> Hold Back Your Practice’s Success!<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

Earn More with Outsourcing<\/span><\/h2>\r\n

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is aware of this issue and has added billing codes for these aspects of primary care, including preventive services and coordination services. However, many of these codes have been characterized by low adoption rates, suggesting that the codes are not being adequately used. Primary care physicians can outsource their medical billing and coding operations to code preventive and coordination services accurately. Outsourcing can help primary care providers earn more. Some of the benefits of outsourcing are listed below:<\/span><\/p>\r\n