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Choosing A Medical Billing Company
Deciding to outsource your medical billing is not a decision to be taken lightly, and in the beginning you may not even need to outsource your billing in the beginning. But soon, you will find that your staff is so busy servicing your patients and running your office with its day-to-day goings on, finally you have to look at outsourcing. There have been some horror stories out there about physicians outsourcing their medical billing or practice management to a company and then finding out it cost them even more money because the company just wasn’t up to date on their coding books or simply not experienced enough to handle the …
How is Auditory Rehabilitation Billed?
Medical billing changes occur each and every year in America. 2006 has brought many changes to the forefront. Aural Rehabilitation is one major area of confusion. Medical billing changes to Aural Rehab CPT codes have wrongly caused many people to believe Aural Rehabilitation is not covered. Medicare actually assigned status code “I” to all new medical billing codes for auditory rehabilitation. These codes are 92630 and 92633. This means that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will not pay for auditory rehabilitation, only diagnostic audiology. However, this is only true if an audiologist performs the service and the medical billing. There are several other medical professionals that could possibly …
Is Outsourcing Your Medical Billing Claims Secure?
In a word, absolutely. There are a lot of pros to outsourcing your medical billing. Don’t let confidentiality concerns stop you from outsourcing your medical billing. A reputable firm will provide a confidentiality agreement and rest assured your records are handled with the utmost care. Confidentiality and accuracy are part of a billing company’s standard business practice. Your practice will benefit from outsourcing because with the burden of medical billing handled outside your office, you and your staff will have more time to run your business. It will allow you time to develop relationships with new patients and more time for marketing your practice. Using an outside firm to handle …
Look Into Separating Payments on Separate Tests Performed
Did you know that you can actually bill separate tests performed from your practice for separate payments? Certain practices have been taking advantage of larger reimbursements by doing just that. Say that you have a patient that is new to your practice and they are coming in for an exam. You can both bill for that exam and then bill separate for any other tests or screenings that they will be having performed. Although you may feel as though you are doing something wrong when it comes to medical billing practices such as these, but the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services have been doing a good amount of research …
Sutures-Get Your Reimbursements
If you have had V58.3 denials in the recent past, it’s probably due to your method of reporting the procedure on your superbill instead of an unnecessary procedure. Make sure that you report V58.3 as a two-line entry. Instead of “dressing change/suture removal”. Additionally, the coming ICD-9 2007 changes that will go into effect on October 1st will also have more specifics for reporting in this series. This will include three aftercare types. Remember that V58.3 is no longer a catchall coding for these procedures. The new codings will be as follows: * Nonsurgical wound dressing change or removal–V58.30 * Surgical wound dressing change or removal–V58.31 * Suture removal–V58.32. Payers …
