Blog on Medical Billing, Billing Outsourcing and Healthcare Billing
The effort taken by most healthcare entities in minimizing claim denials has become remarkable in the recent times. They pay more attention in documenting patient demographics, entering ICD & CPT codes, updating current charges, performing regular AR follow-up and more. However, their claims still get denied by the Payer. Continue reading “It is Insurance Eligibility Verification time!”
Denials are a big problem faced by both healthcare facilities and individual physicians. Even though they take concerted efforts on medical claims processing, claims do get denied by the payer for several reasons. Claims can be re-sent to the insurance company but only on learning the status of the denied medical claims. Continue reading “Denial Management – Check on the Web or Call?”
A common myth about Anesthesia Providers is that their work simply involves giving anesthesia to the patient undergoing surgery. In reality, they have more responsibilities like creating a customized anesthesia plan for a patient, monitoring the health status prior to and after giving anesthesia, and more. Continue reading “Anesthesia Billing – Unique Requirements”
Insurance eligibility verification is the foundation of the medical insurance billing cycle and it has the power to decide the fate of a claim. At times we don’t give adequate significance to doing insurance eligibility verification. We have an impression that certain claims don’t require insurance eligibility verification and we fail to foresee the consequences that we would have to face by not doing the verification. When it comes to business, big or small, a loss is a loss. The loss is to be borne by physicians or patients. Even the medical billing companies are at loss if there are delays and denials. Continue reading “How does insurance eligibility verification helps in reducing denials and the medical billing cycle”
