{"id":30629,"date":"2026-07-02T19:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcoders.com\/blog\/?post_type=wpseo_locations&#038;p=30629"},"modified":"2026-07-02T19:19:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:49:31","slug":"why-are-new-york-obgyn-practices-losing-claims-they-already-earned","status":"publish","type":"wpseo_locations","link":"https:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcoders.com\/blog\/locations\/why-are-new-york-obgyn-practices-losing-claims-they-already-earned\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are New York OBGYN Practices Losing Claims They Already Earned?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">New York OBGYN practices are losing earned revenue to a billing constraint that has no appeal path and no recovery window \u2014 a 90-day Medicaid timely filing deadline that permanently closes the door on antepartum claims not submitted within three months of the encounter date.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">The 90-day window is the shortest Medicaid timely filing requirement of any major state. It creates an operational vulnerability that mid-volume OBGYN practices \u2014 particularly those managing high antepartum visit counts across multiple locations or attending physicians \u2014 cannot absorb without automated claim submission infrastructure. A single documentation delay, a credentialing lapse on a covering physician, or a split-care arrangement where the covering provider&#8217;s claims are batched separately can push antepartum visit claims past the 90-day threshold without triggering a denial. The revenue disappears from the collectible pool without generating an AR aging flag \u2014 invisible until year-end reconciliation confirms the loss. <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcoders.com\/blog\/are-global-period-gaps-costing-your-ob-gyn-practice\/?utm_source=sab&amp;utm_medium=blog%28sab%29&amp;utm_campaign=blog%28sab%29&amp;utm_id=sab&amp;utm_term=02%2F07%2F2026SAB&amp;utm_content=%28SAB%29\">Are Global Period Gaps Costing Your OBGYN Practice?<\/a><\/p>\r\n<hr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\" \/>\r\n<h2 class=\"text-text-100 mt-2 -mb-1 text-base font-bold\">The Triple Threat to New York OBGYN Net Realized Revenue<\/h2>\r\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">Three payer-specific pressures converge simultaneously for New York OBGYN practices entering H2 2026 \u2014 and none of them appear on a standard AR aging report until the revenue is already gone.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"><strong>The 90-Day Medicaid Timely Filing Cliff<\/strong> is the first and most structurally dangerous. New York&#8217;s eMedNY portal enforces the filing deadline without exception \u2014 and unlike commercial payer timely filing disputes, there is no appeal mechanism once the window closes. For a mid-volume OBGYN practice managing 180 to 250 antepartum encounters per month across two or more locations, the exposure is between $45,000 and $120,000 in permanently uncollectable Medicaid revenue per 12 months. Practices operating without a claim submission tracking infrastructure tied to the encounter date \u2014 not the submission date \u2014 are absorbing this loss without a denial flag, a rejection notice, or an AR aging entry. For context on how global package billing interacts with timely filing requirements, see <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcoders.com\/article\/ob-gyn-coding-guidelines.html?utm_source=sab&amp;utm_medium=blog%28sab%29&amp;utm_campaign=blog%28sab%29&amp;utm_id=sab&amp;utm_term=02%2F07%2F2026SAB&amp;utm_content=%28SAB%29\">Basics of OBGYN Coding Guidelines<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"><strong>EmblemHealth and Anthem Blue Cross Modifier 25 AI Bundling<\/strong> is the second failure mechanism. Two of New York&#8217;s largest commercial payers are applying AI-assisted claim review to OBGYN Modifier 25 claims at the highest intensity of any commercial market in the state. The specific audit target: claims where the E\/M documentation shares clinical language with the same-day procedure note. The result is systematic E\/M bundling that generates accepted underpayments \u2014 not appealable denials. These underpayments are posted as paid, accepted as contractual adjustments, and written off without review. For a practice billing 300 same-day procedure encounters per month, undetected Modifier 25 bundling represents $40,000 to $95,000 in lost revenue per 12 months \u2014 revenue that never appears on an AR aging report because it was technically paid, just at the wrong amount. <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcoders.com\/article\/em-codes-in-ob-gyn-billing.html?utm_source=sab&amp;utm_medium=blog%28sab%29&amp;utm_campaign=blog%28sab%29&amp;utm_id=sab&amp;utm_term=02%2F07%2F2026SAB&amp;utm_content=%28SAB%29\">Accurately Using E\/M Codes in OBGYN Billing<\/a> defines the documentation architecture that separates E\/M and procedure notes at the clinical language level \u2014 the standard that prevents AI-assisted bundling before it reaches adjudication.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"><strong>The NYCE PPO Transition Disruption<\/strong> is the third and most recently activated pressure point. The January 2026 replacement of GHI CBP with the NYCE PPO \u2014 a joint EmblemHealth and UnitedHealthcare product covering New York City employees \u2014 created mid-cycle billing disruption for every OBGYN practice serving City of New York patients. New plan IDs, new authorization workflows, new claim submission portals, and new remittance formats required simultaneous updates across every practice management system. Practices without dedicated <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcoders.com\/revenue-management-services.aspx\">RCM Services<\/a> support absorbed the transition as claim delays, authorization gaps, payment posting errors, and duplicate claim submissions \u2014 all of which feed directly into AR aging past 60 and 90 days.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"overflow-x-auto w-full px-2 mb-6\">\r\n<table class=\"min-w-full border-collapse text-sm leading-[1.7] whitespace-normal\" style=\"width: 100.338%;\">\r\n<thead class=\"text-left\">\r\n<tr>\r\n<th class=\"text-text-100 border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.6)] py-2 pr-4 align-top font-bold\" style=\"width: 36.5245%;\" scope=\"col\">New York OBGYN Billing Risk<\/th>\r\n<th class=\"text-text-100 border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.6)] py-2 pr-4 align-top font-bold\" style=\"width: 35.4839%;\" scope=\"col\">Mechanism<\/th>\r\n<th class=\"text-text-100 border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.6)] py-2 pr-4 align-top font-bold\" style=\"width: 70.5515%;\" scope=\"col\">Revenue Impact Per 12 Months<\/th>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/thead>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\" style=\"width: 36.5245%;\">Medicaid 90-day timely filing cliff<\/td>\r\n<td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\" style=\"width: 35.4839%;\">Claims past the deadline are permanently uncollectable<\/td>\r\n<td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\" style=\"width: 70.5515%;\">$45,000\u2013$120,000<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\" style=\"width: 36.5245%;\">EmblemHealth\/Anthem Modifier 25 AI bundling<\/td>\r\n<td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\" style=\"width: 35.4839%;\">E\/M bundled into procedure silently<\/td>\r\n<td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\" style=\"width: 70.5515%;\">$40,000\u2013$95,000<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\" style=\"width: 36.5245%;\">NYCE PPO transition gaps<\/td>\r\n<td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\" style=\"width: 35.4839%;\">New plan ID\/auth workflow errors<\/td>\r\n<td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\" style=\"width: 70.5515%;\">$30,000\u2013$80,000<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\" style=\"width: 36.5245%;\">Split-care documentation gaps<\/td>\r\n<td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\" style=\"width: 35.4839%;\">Covering physician claims batched separately<\/td>\r\n<td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\" style=\"width: 70.5515%;\">$25,000\u2013$75,000<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\" style=\"width: 36.5245%;\"><strong>Total combined exposure<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\" style=\"width: 35.4839%;\">\u00a0<\/td>\r\n<td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\" style=\"width: 70.5515%;\"><strong>$140,000\u2013$370,000<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<hr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\" \/>\r\n<h3 class=\"text-text-100 mt-2 -mb-1 text-base font-bold\">Where New York OBGYN AR Aging Compounds the Loss<\/h3>\r\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">Accounts receivable aging beyond 90 days in New York OBGYN does not recover at the same rate as national benchmarks \u2014 because New York&#8217;s payer environment adds structural friction at every stage of the appeal cycle. EmblemHealth&#8217;s appeal portal requires separate submissions for Modifier 25 disputes versus global package downcodes. UnitedHealthcare&#8217;s NYCE PPO operates under a new claims adjudication timeline that differs from the legacy GHI CBP processing standard. And New York Medicaid&#8217;s eMedNY portal does not process timely filing appeals \u2014 the claim is either submitted within 90 days or it is not collectible. <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcoders.com\/blog\/why-is-obgyn-ar-aging-beyond-90-days\/?utm_source=sab&amp;utm_medium=blog%28sab%29&amp;utm_campaign=blog%28sab%29&amp;utm_id=sab&amp;utm_term=02%2F07%2F2026SAB&amp;utm_content=%28SAB%29\">Why Is OBGYN AR Aging Beyond 90 Days?<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"><strong>Old AR recovery<\/strong> on New York OBGYN accounts requires specialty-specific knowledge of eMedNY submission standards, EmblemHealth and Anthem appeal workflows, NYCE PPO remittance reconciliation, and split-care documentation protocols \u2014 capabilities that most general <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcoders.com\/medical-billing-services.aspx?utm_source=sab&amp;utm_medium=blog%28sab%29&amp;utm_campaign=blog%28sab%29&amp;utm_id=sab&amp;utm_term=02%2F07%2F2026SAB&amp;utm_content=%28SAB%29\">Medical Billing Services<\/a> vendors do not maintain for a single state&#8217;s payer environment. See <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcoders.com\/blog\/5-ob-gyn-billing-challenges-in-2025\/?utm_source=sab&amp;utm_medium=blog%28sab%29&amp;utm_campaign=blog%28sab%29&amp;utm_id=sab&amp;utm_term=02%2F07%2F2026SAB&amp;utm_content=%28SAB%29\">5 OBGYN Billing Challenges in 2025<\/a> for the upstream documentation patterns that create the AR aging problem before it reaches the 90-day threshold.<\/p>\r\n<hr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\" \/>\r\n<h3 class=\"text-text-100 mt-2 -mb-1 text-base font-bold\">The Infrastructure Gap Behind the New York Revenue Loss<\/h3>\r\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">The practices absorbing this loss are not billing incorrectly. They are operating a billing infrastructure built for a payer environment that no longer exists \u2014 before EmblemHealth deployed AI-assisted Modifier 25 review, before NYCE PPO replaced GHI CBP mid-fiscal-year, and before New York Medicaid&#8217;s 90-day filing window became the binding constraint on antepartum revenue recovery. The revenue gap is not a coding error. It is an infrastructure mismatch \u2014 and it compounds every billing cycle that goes unresolved.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">The second dimension most New York OBGYN practices do not measure is <strong>payer variance<\/strong> \u2014 the difference between what a contract specifies on a global maternity package and what EmblemHealth, Anthem, and NYCE PPO plans are actually remitting per encounter. Unlike denials, underpayments do not appear on AR aging reports. They are posted as paid, accepted as contractual adjustments, and written off without review. <strong>MBC&#8217;s Revenue Integrity Framework<\/strong> cross-references every global package remittance against contracted rates by payer, by plan, and by CPT cluster \u2014 recovering underpayment revenue that current billing operations have no mechanism to identify. For a mid-volume New York OBGYN practice billing $1.2 million per month, undetected payer variance across EmblemHealth, Anthem, and NYCE PPO typically represents an additional $80,000 to $150,000 in recoverable revenue per 12 months \u2014 revenue already earned, already remitted, sitting in the difference between what was paid and what was contractually owed.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">The year-end pressure point is specific to New York: malpractice premiums ranging from $150,000 to $200,000 per physician per 12 months make <strong>net realized revenue<\/strong> optimization not optional but the financial condition that determines whether a practice sustains operations into the next fiscal year. The write-off decisions made between October and December \u2014 on Medicaid claims past the 90-day window, on Modifier 25 underpayments accepted without dispute, on NYCE PPO transition claims aged past the appeal threshold \u2014 lock in the financial performance a New York OBGYN practice reports for the full year. Identifying the infrastructure gap now is the only path to recovery before those windows close permanently.<\/p>\r\n<hr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\" \/>\r\n<h2 class=\"text-text-100 mt-2 -mb-1 text-base font-bold\">How MBC&#8217;s Revenue Integrity Framework Protects New York OBGYN Net Revenue<\/h2>\r\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"><strong>MBC&#8217;s Revenue Integrity Framework<\/strong> is built specifically for the New York OBGYN billing environment, not adapted from a general outpatient billing workflow that does not distinguish between EmblemHealth&#8217;s Modifier 25 audit criteria and Healthfirst&#8217;s documentation standards for antepartum visits.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">Our <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcoders.com\/speciality\/obgyn-medical-billing-services.html?utm_source=sab&amp;utm_medium=blog%28sab%29&amp;utm_campaign=blog%28sab%29&amp;utm_id=sab&amp;utm_term=02%2F07%2F2026SAB&amp;utm_content=%28SAB%29\">OBGYN Medical Billing Services<\/a> team applies <strong>denial root-cause engineering<\/strong> to identify the New York payer-specific pattern before the next submission cycle: which commercial plans are applying AI review to which OBGYN code clusters, where timely filing exposure is building in current AR, and which NYCE PPO authorization workflows require manual intervention versus automated submission. For actionable billing protocols aligned with this framework, see <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcoders.com\/blog\/tips-for-ob-gyn-medical-billing\/?utm_source=sab&amp;utm_medium=blog%28sab%29&amp;utm_campaign=blog%28sab%29&amp;utm_id=sab&amp;utm_term=02%2F07%2F2026SAB&amp;utm_content=%28SAB%29\">Tips for OBGYN Medical Billing<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"><strong>Payer variance detection<\/strong> infrastructure cross-references every global maternity package remittance against contracted rates across EmblemHealth, Anthem Blue Cross, NYCE PPO, Healthfirst, and Fidelis Care \u2014 identifying where New York OBGYN practices are being systematically underpaid below contracted rates without a denial flag.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">MBC&#8217;s <strong>dedicated account manager<\/strong> model assigns a New York-credentialed OBGYN billing specialist to your account \u2014 tracking eMedNY timely filing deadlines claim by claim, managing NYCE PPO authorization workflows, validating Modifier 25 documentation separation before submission, and reconciling EmblemHealth remittances against contracted global package rates. Revenue loss is prevented at the claim level \u2014 not discovered at year-end reconciliation.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">With a 97% clean claim rate, 30% A\/R reduction within 90 days, and 98% client retention across 25+ years of OBGYN billing in high-complexity state markets, MBC delivers the <strong>net realized revenue<\/strong> performance that multi-physician New York OBGYN groups require from an enterprise revenue integrity partner.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"><a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcoders.com\/contact-us.aspx?utm_source=sab&amp;utm_medium=blog%28sab%29&amp;utm_campaign=blog%28sab%29&amp;utm_id=sab&amp;utm_term=02%2F07%2F2026SAB&amp;utm_content=%28SAB%29\">Request Your Free Revenue Diagnostic<\/a> \u2014 identify exactly how much New York Medicaid, EmblemHealth, Anthem, and NYCE PPO revenue your OBGYN practice is currently leaving on the table, and what it is worth to recover before year-end.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"overflow-x-auto w-full px-2 mb-6\">\r\n<table class=\"min-w-full border-collapse text-sm leading-[1.7] whitespace-normal\" style=\"width: 100.585%;\">\r\n<thead class=\"text-left\">\r\n<tr>\r\n<th class=\"text-text-100 border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.6)] py-2 pr-4 align-top font-bold\" style=\"width: 80.3398%;\" scope=\"col\">MBC OBGYN Performance Benchmark<\/th>\r\n<th class=\"text-text-100 border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.6)] py-2 pr-4 align-top font-bold\" style=\"width: 251.456%;\" scope=\"col\">\u00a0<\/th>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/thead>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\" style=\"width: 80.3398%;\">Clean claim rate<\/td>\r\n<td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\" style=\"width: 251.456%;\">97%<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\" style=\"width: 80.3398%;\">A\/R reduction within 90 days<\/td>\r\n<td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\" style=\"width: 251.456%;\">30%<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\" style=\"width: 80.3398%;\">Client retention<\/td>\r\n<td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\" style=\"width: 251.456%;\">98%<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\" style=\"width: 80.3398%;\">Experience<\/td>\r\n<td class=\"border-b-0.5 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.3)] py-2 pr-4 align-top\" style=\"width: 251.456%;\">25+ years<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<hr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\" \/>\r\n<h4 class=\"text-text-100 mt-2 -mb-1 text-base font-bold\">FAQ<\/h4>\r\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"schema-faq wp-block-yoast-faq-block\">\r\n<div id=\"faq-question-1782998987836\" class=\"schema-faq-section\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">What is New York\u2019s Medicaid timely filing deadline for OBGYN claims?<\/strong>\r\n<p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">New York <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicaid.gov\/\">Medicaid<\/a> enforces a 90-day timely filing window \u2014 the shortest of any major state \u2014 meaning antepartum and postpartum claims not submitted within three months of the encounter date are permanently uncollectable with no appeal path through the eMedNY portal.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div id=\"faq-question-17829991348241\" class=\"schema-faq-section\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">How does EmblemHealth review OBGYN Modifier 25 claims in New York?<\/strong>\r\n<p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">EmblemHealth applies AI-assisted claim review targeting OBGYN Modifier 25 claims where the E\/M note shares clinical language with a same-day procedure note \u2014 generating accepted underpayments that do not appear as denials in AR aging reports and therefore accumulate silently per billing cycle.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div id=\"faq-question-17829991348242\" class=\"schema-faq-section\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">What changed for New York OBGYN practices billing City employees in 2026?<\/strong>\r\n<p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">GHI CBP was replaced by NYCE PPO in January 2026 \u2014 a joint EmblemHealth and UnitedHealthcare product requiring new plan IDs, new prior authorization workflows, and new claim submission portals for practices serving New York City employees, creating mid-cycle AR disruption for practices without dedicated RCM transition support.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div id=\"faq-question-17829991348243\" class=\"schema-faq-section\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">How do New York malpractice premiums affect OBGYN net realized revenue?<\/strong>\r\n<p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">New York OBGYN malpractice premiums range from $150,000 to $200,000 per physician per 12 months \u2014 making net realized revenue optimization the financial condition that determines practice sustainability, not a secondary operational concern.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div id=\"faq-question-17829991348244\" class=\"schema-faq-section\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">How does MBC handle New York OBGYN billing differently from general RCM vendors?<\/strong>\r\n<p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">MBC maintains New York-specific OBGYN billing infrastructure, including eMedNY timely filing tracking, EmblemHealth and NYCE PPO authorization management, Modifier 25 documentation validation, and payer variance detection across all major New York commercial plans \u2014 capabilities built for the New York payer environment, not adapted from general billing workflows.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"wpseo-all-locations\"><div id=\"wpseo_location-29314\" class=\"wpseo-location\"><h3><span class=\"wpseo-business-name\">What Should You Look for in Medical Billing Services in New York?<\/span><\/h3><div class=\"wpseo-address-wrapper\"><\/div><span class=\"wpseo-phone\">Phone: <a href=\"tel:8883573226\" class=\"tel\"><span>888-357-3226<\/span><\/a><\/span><br\/><span class=\"wpseo-fax\">Fax: <span class=\"tel\">888-316-4566<\/span><\/span><br\/><span class=\"wpseo-email\">Email: <a href=\"mailto:sal&#101;&#115;&#064;me&#100;i&#099;&#097;lbi&#108;lers&#097;nd&#099;o&#100;e&#114;s.c&#111;m\">&#115;&#97;&#108;&#101;s&#64;me&#100;i&#99;a&#108;b&#105;l&#108;&#101;&#114;s&#97;ndcod&#101;&#114;s.com<\/a><\/span><br\/><\/div><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York OBGYN practices are losing earned revenue to a billing constraint that has no appeal path and no recovery window \u2014 a 90-day Medicaid timely filing deadline that permanently closes the door on antepartum claims not submitted within three months of the encounter date. 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