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Unruly Patients – Knowledge is Power
Every practice has them, the sad, the mad, and the just plain bitter. Patients that are unhappy with co-pays, deductibles and out of pocket expenses. Prescription prices are up and so are premiums. How does a front desk or outsourced management team cope? In a word, education. Remember that customer service is still the easiest product to deliver in any profession. Staff and support team members who are willing to step up to the plate and deliver information in a sincere and confident manner can weather any patient fury. For those practices that lack an information source in a hurried front office consider info sheets explaining how new plan yearly …
Work at Home Medical Billing Career?
Proper medical billing is an important aspect of the medical field, primarily involving processing insurance claims. Work-at-home medical billing opportunities are everywhere, but most lack important information. Coding standards make it relatively simple for anyone to learn the tasks required for medical billing. While there are many ways to acquire medical billing training, working as an independent home processor is far more difficult than just learning proper input and coding. Advertisements commonly suggest medical billing is an easy job done from the comfort of your home, but in reality typically require running an entire medical billing business, including recruiting clients to provide work volume. Rarely can an actual medical billing …
Medical Billing Consulting, Is It Right For Your Practice?
What are medical billing consulting services? Medical billing consulting services are supporting management services provided by professionals who are experienced with the administrative side in providing healthcare. These professionals can provide medical billing consulting services because they have worked in the medical billing and coding industry and understand its’ complexities. They use their expertise to guide physicians and hospitals to improve their reimbursement claims and medical billing processes. When do you think you should avail of medical billing consultancy services? You should consider medical billing consulting services if you are a physician whose present practice is expanding, and you remain eager to learn and improve upon your current medical billing …
Is A Medical Billing Career For You?
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) lists medical billing and coding specialists; together with that of health information technicians as one of the ten fastest-growing allied health occupations spurred by the need for their special skills and knowledge in the field. These medical billing and coding specialists are employed in clinics, hospitals, insurance companies, consulting firms, medical coding and billing services firms, governmental agencies and computer software companies. The basic job function of medical billing and coding specialists is to assign codes to diagnoses and procedures. This is to insure proper financial reimbursement from insurance companies and government agencies. For dedicated medical billing and coding specialists who constantly train …
Medical Billing Outsourcing Benefits
What are the benefits to outsourcing your medical billing to a medical billing firm? Your practice gains substantial benefits when it hires a medical billing outsourcing firm. By hiring a medical billing outsourcing firm, you free your self and your staff from the paperwork headaches of the reimbursement claims process. By hiring a medical billing outsourcing firm, you are able to expedite income generation. Your reimbursement claims can be paid within 7-14 days. Paper claims are processed electronically to check for errors, and a bigger percentage of claims will be paid. By hiring a medical billing outsourcing firm, you eliminate non-productive office hours. For the medical billing, outsourcing firm handles …
Medical Billing Software
More than ten years ago medical billing records were committed on paper. The advent of computers and the introduction of reliable medical billing software have largely phased out the paper system of keeping medical billing records. Today’s healthcare providers have realized medical billing software ensures their reimbursement claims are facilitated in a secure and efficient manner. Medical billing software also tracks each patient’s medical and insurance billing and accounting, all to the benefit of patients. Here are three benefits inherent in the use of medical billing software as compared to the paper based systems. 1. Medical billing software improves staff productivity, as easy to use medical billing software improves efficiency. …
How Much Can I Make Doing Medical Billing?
How Much Can I Make Doing Medical Billing? How Much Can I Make Doing Medical Coding? I receive many emails asking how much can I make doing medical billing? Or How much can I make doing medical coding? Well that has no definitive answer because it is dependent upon how you go into the field, are you going to be a medical billing clerk, a certified coder, a billing company owner and so on. I will discuss what I know to be an average salary in the U.S. for a billing clerk and a coding specialist as well as explain the job requirements for each, but being a company owner …
Shocking Medical Billing Survey
An online survey completed this year by Medical Association of Billers showed some interesting stats from the world of medical billing. Responding to the survey were professionals from billing companies, single provider practices, group practices, hospital medical records, hospital outpatient, ambulatory surgery and insurance carrier. The survey results were divided into 6 categories, each representing a geographical region of the nation. For my analysis of the results I have combined each of the stats and divided to come to a national average based upon the results, and a few of those numbers are discussed here. First let me say that Outsource Management Group, LLC. has no interest in the results …
Consulting Charges vs. New Patient Visits
I thought I would post these thoughts today; as these billing issues have continued to pop-up frequently. As coders, we know that there are many instances when a Consultation charge would be applicable to bill for a physicians’ service. These codes include 99241-99255 However, time and time again I see this mistake occuring when billing for my own client’s who code their superbills. The OIG has issued many intensified directives when billing illegal Consultation charges. I believe that the best example would be as follows to describe the difference and when to use and when not to use a consultation charge. If Dr. Happy refers a patient to obtain an …
New Online Based Consulting Services
We at Outsource Management Group, LLC are happy to announce that we have added an online consulting service to our professional services to assist medical billing and coding colleagues, as well as physician’s who have there own in-house billing staff with tough billing, coding, compliance and management questions. Have you ever had trouble finding the correct code for your claim? Have you seen an increase in denied claims? Have you had trouble filling out your claim forms properly? Have you ever had trouble finding the correct modifier to use? Have you ever had any HIPAA concerns or issues? Do you need assistance with the correct usage of CPT, ICD9 or …
