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Why Medical Billing Claims Get Denied?
There are a number of reasons that your medical billing claims could be getting kicked back. Next time you have a medical billing claim kicked back, carefully check it to see why it was returned. Finding out why your medical billing claims were refused will sometimes uncover an unhealthy pattern in your office such as not keeping up with the changes to the CPT codes. And that’s our number one reason, usage of outdated or improper codes. The CPT updates a number of times a year and keeping up with those changes can be difficult. However, if you don’t use the most current coding the carriers are well within their …
The Answer For a Busy Staff
Very little can compare to how busy a doctor’s office can get. Besides the patients that you have scheduled, your staff will also have to handle endless phone calls, questions from patients and potential patients, patients without appointments that simply walk in and emergency and urgent care situations that require other patients be re-scheduled so an urgent matter can be performed. Along with the patient care and servicing come the day-to-day office duties that include coding your medical billing claims correctly, keeping up with the CPT codes, knowing which modifiers to attach to which claims, making sure that your practice is credentialed to be servicing patients that have other insurances, …
The Benefits of Getting Credentialed
One thing you learn quickly when you establish your own practice is that there are many types of insurance plans as there are patients and in order to get paid for the services that your render, you must be approved or rather “credentialed” to do business with your patient through that particular insurance company. The process of getting credentialed with each insurance company is a little different as to what each carrier will require from you but each will require a lot of paperwork and following up. That’s where a third party partner can help you.If you want to get credentialed with as many different carriers as possible but you …
Office Visits And Well Checks
Any time you are coding for problem visits that a patient has, it is important that you take into consideration any other office visits that they may have recently had. Basically, you are going to want to look to see if there is a connection between visits for preventative medicine as well as current health issues that may be in place, which also needs some attention. Many times, a physician will end up seeing a patient that shows up in search of a visit to fall into the category of preventative medicine. Then, upon further evaluation, the doctor will then need to look at the patient further for some sort …
Avoiding Costly “Medically Unlikely Edit” Denials
It can happen to any individual who is involved with coding, dealing with MUEs can end up being a nightmare if you do not know when and how to use them. MUEs, which is short for the term Medically Unlikely Edits, happen to be put in place to try and help limit the amount of billing errors. The more you understand them, the better off you will be when you find that you need to use them. If you are worried about dealing with MUEs, then you really should know that you are not alone. Luckily, there are a couple of things that you can look to and keep in …
