Tuesday 18 September 2012

Medical Billing Partner: A Strategic Avenue for Achieving Revenue Integrity?

Healthcare providers in the current environment are aware of the fact that every step counts, leaving no room for errors as far as securing the revenues and reimbursements are concerned for their services. However, as the procedure of patient billing information has been traditionally managed by different departments in isolation, showing little integration the deficiencies of one department might impact the other department adversely, and even damage the revenue cycle of the healthcare provider, hence providers are now in need of a strategic avenue to procure the right revenue for their clinic.

Processes like medical billing, collections and denials managements are some of the prime activities handled by the health care providers, which play a significant part in ensuring revenue optimisation. However payment accuracy, resolving cases of denials and managing the underpayments are specifically critical in order to maintain the healthy bottom line. Additionally healthcare reforms like – Electronic Health Recording (EMR) mandatory for securing incentives under ARRA, transition to HIPAA and ICD-9 to ICD- 10, though improving quality of care are also slowing down the Revenue cycle. All in all physicians have very little option but to re –organize their clinics entire billing process.

Medical billing partners being specialists in their field provide a practical and optimum choice for improving the revenue cycle, streamlining medical billing functions, ensuring optimal reimbursements, operational efficiency and compliance, thus helping the physicians and health care providers to achieve revenue integrity. Billing partners regularly check for any coding errors adding any modifiers if necessary thus negating any chance of discrepancy in the billing process. Problems like denials and underpayment can also be dealt with on the same platform, as billers assist in helping streamline changes to the clinic due to health care reforms providing experts who are well versed with ICD-10, HIPAA & knowledge about the EMR software suitable for your clinic.

RCM of a health care provider being quite complex, involves various processes and people, ranging from scheduling the patient to billing for the services and collection. MBC through it medical billing service has been helping physicians who are at a constant risk of losing considerable amount of revenue where lack of communication between various departments and inefficiency are common features. Medicalbillersandcoders.com has been involved in revenue maximization for healthcare organizations by billing and coding for over a decade now for physicians across the 50 US States and across varied specialties.

Our team is constantly training and updating themselves about industry requisites also providing consultancy right from the best EHR– to data analytics. At MBC our medical billing and coding experts are constantly striving to update themselves to achieve the right revenue for your organization.