Month: December 2015

3 Ways Outsourcing Can Reduce Medical Billing Mistakes

Medical billing is a very complex and grueling task. With thousands of medical codes, hundreds of patients, and multiple insurance companies, it seems nearly impossible for a practice to take on all of the medical billing. Much of a practice’s time is controlled by the medical billing process, but it doesn’t have to be. If…

6 Ways Outsourcing Medical Billing Cuts Costs

Medical billing costs a chunk of money no matter how you look at it. It is a very challenging task with time restraints and enormous pressure. Any practice, small or large, knows just how intense it can get. Because the level of difficulty can sometimes be too much, many practices have turned to outsource medical…

5 Major Reasons Your Claims Are Getting Denied

Getting your claims denied is a tremendous inconvenience for a practice. It not only slows things down in the office, but it also delays your payments. It is important to understand why you may be experiencing a build-up of denied claims. As a medical coding company ourselves, we want to help. Here are the top…

Protecting Patients from Online Hackers

Because the health industry is in a constant state of change, new medical tools are frequently invented to help ease workflow. Practices that do in-house medical billing and coding are happy to invest in any medical tool that might make office work simpler – and this, for the past decade, has included online storage of…

Revenue Cycle Management: Fee Scheduling (Part 6)

Fee schedules are the most subjective things in all of healthcare and can swing wildly from provider to provider, as well as facility to facility. It’s also one of the most mystical things for patients to understand. In fact, it’s is one of the most frequent patient questions we get as a medical billing service…