MEDICAL BILLERS IN Seattle , WA
MBC provides Medical Billing Services in Seattle, Washington, 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 Washington market. Explore our Seattle Medical Billing Services to see how MBC supports revenue cycle performance for practices in Seattle.
Physical therapy services, owing to their inherent nature, have often been found to be elusive while billing for medical reimbursement. Unless medically deemed fit, these services cannot be billed for reimbursement. Consequently, physicians are apprehensive of undertaking certain services that might deprive them of reimbursement for medical services.
How does medical billing and coding support aid in Physical Therapy reimbursement?
Despite the healthcare providers pre-emptive scrutiny in determining eligibility for medical reimbursement, they may not always be successful in segregating ineligible cases due to their preoccupation with focused medical care as well as somewhat uncertain nature of this specialty-specific billing and coding.
Medicalbillersandcoders.com, the largest consortium of medical billers in the US, are known for accurate screening for deciding the eligibility of certain services for reimbursement. Such an efficient screening is indispensible for mitigating adverse impact on revenues from reimbursement. Laying a firm foundation for a comprehensive and efficient billing reimbursement solution, our Physical Therapy billing Specialists establish a well-phased system for an efficient claim submission and realization.
Our medical billers in Seattle, WA 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 Seattle, WA providers billing procedures so that they can devote more time, energy and resources in providing the highest level of patient care. These Billers 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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Seattle, a major city in the state of Washington in the northernmost part of the country has its fair share of healthcare reimbursement issues. Most clinics here suffer from long revenue cycle periods and denied claims.
Trained Billing professionals would be the ideal way to ensure optimized revenue cycles for Seattle physicians. Our billers and coders in and around Seattle are committed to assist you with all your insurance and patient billing needs of your practice.
Our billers apply their knowledge across healthcare to suit your billing processes and can offer end to end solution for your medical practice. If you are looking to streamline any of the below mentioned functions in your clinic, you may not have to look anywhere:
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Patient registration
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Electronic billing on primary as well secondary insurance claims
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Follow-up on account receivables
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Appeals on denied claims
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Patient collections
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Monthly practice reports
When a claim is partially paid or rejected, it is important that the explanation of the partial payment or rejection is understood by the Billing Professionals. It has been our experience that too few agents actually question why the claim benefit was administrated the way it was and leave it to the patient to follow up with the insurance companies. But not with our Billers in the Seattle area, they would go all the way to benefit your practice without making your patients upset.
From Renton to Seattle our Billers understand the effort of the state of Washington to reduce and detect fraud and insurance abuse, thus they implement the best Medical Billing and Coding practices and facilitate the Department of Social and Health Services. Your very own local Biller is aware of the Medicare and Medicaid programs run by the State, making them your best choice.
Explore the specialty, experience and software used by our Seattle Billers to match your requirement.
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:
- Timely submission of electronic claims
- Posting EOB and verifying ERA postings
- Preparation of patient statement
- Accounts receivable management
- Handling Billing and reimbursement inquiries
- Verifying Benefits of patients
Value-Added Process to Optimize Reimbursement
Our Physical Therapy Billing and coding solutions include the following process:
- Setting up HIPAA compliant patient privacy reporting on any EMR software of your choice. Coupled with the compliant reporting, EMR system also ensures accurate charge-capture, which is crucial to billing and coding. Compliant EMR system – which runs on latest technology platforms – apart from ensuring operational efficiency, could also earn incentives for adhering to accepted level of compliance.
- Having a compliant patient medical record at their disposal, our billing experts apply appropriate CPT codes for corresponding services. Ingenuity in applying diverse codes: CPT code 97110 for therapeutic procedure on one or more areas to develop strength and endurance, range of motion and flexibility; CPT code 97112 for neuromuscular re-education of movement, balance, coordination, kinesthetic sense, posture, and/or proprioception for sitting and or standing activities; CPT code 97116 for gait training including stair climbing; CPT code 97124 for massage, including stroking, compression, and percussion; CPT code 97140 for manual therapy techniques comprising mobilization/manipulation; CPT code 97150 for therapeutic procedure on group of 2 or more individuals. Application of suitable modifiers: modifier GP for service rendered by a l therapist, and modifier 59 for distinct procedural service. Such an ingenious coding system is precursor to an efficient claim submission devoid of any external audit issues
- Finally, having submitted claims for reimbursement, our billing professionals set up a follow up system for expediting reimbursement of medical bills.
Billing Across Multiple Specialties
Employing a sequential system for claim submission and realization, our billing services have the capability to undertake medical bill submission and claim-realization for diverse specialty-specific Physical Therapy services such as:
- Cardiopulmonary
- Neurological
- Integumentary
- Cryotherapy
- Heat Therapy
- Iontophoresis, electrotherapy and body massaging
Consequent to such best practices in billing management, physicians would be able to efficiently realize their claims with a portfolio of leading private insurance carriers such as United health, Wellpoint, Aetna, Humana, HCSC, Blue Cross Group, and public health insurance schemes such as Medicare and Medicaid.
MBC's unique combination of expertise and experience
Having a competent set of pre-qualification certificated by the American Association of Professional Coders (AAPC); proficient in using advanced medical billing softwares like EHR Software: NextGen Healthcare, Epic, Cerner, AthenaOne, NueMD, TherapyNotes, DrChrono, eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, Athenahealth, Practice Fusion, TherapyNotes etc. and application of latest coding software and expert at applying standard CPT, HCPCS procedure and supply codes, and ICD-CM diagnosis codes – and a proactive outlook to ICD-10 and HIPAA 5010 transition, our Physical Therapy billing experts promise to be an integrated solution for operational efficiency and revenue maximization. Therefore, physicians can be assured of much needed relief from complexities in medical billing.