How Medical Billing Services that come with Free EMR help your healthcare business

Author: JamesHenry32 | Posted: 07.03.2012

In the healthcare industry, concentrating on your core operations is always the best avenue for spending your resources; such as providing quality medical care while entrusting the surrounding operations to dedicated experts. Like billing procedures and processes to a medical billing company.

EMR Workforce are proven medical billing experts and consultants. We are directly hands-on with all the billing work for our clients and do not outsource ancillary functions off to foreign companies. Additionally, all our procedures and methods are HIPAA compliant and your data privacy and security is a high priority for us.

Every practice has a certain set of problems on the business side of things that are simply too much of a headache for the physician to devote his already committed time to resolve:

Insufficient staff and resources to dedicate to complex billing procedures and compliances.

Insufficient time resolving problems on the business and billing side of things rather than on providing healthcare services.

Problems with receivables and claims management.

Overabundance of calls from related parties with questions and confusions about bills.

Before the healthcare IT boom, physicians didn’t have to deal with as many problems on the administrative and business side of things, nor did they require as much specialized staff to carry out everyday operations. But today’s physicians not only have to manage their own practice, but they also are burdened with handling medical records, billing and claims.

EMR Workforce helps ease all physicians’ burdens with its robust medical billing services and EMR solution offerings. Billing is especially critical in the healthcare business because unlike other industries, physicians often fail to recover the imbursements for the care they provide due to complexities with claims and insurance.

Getting your claims approved from insurance companies is a complex process riddled with hurdles and obstacles. Handling all aspects of billing and claims requires a great deal of knowledge and experience with CPT and ICD-9 codes may apply to any patient’s treatment while staying up to date with every deleted, updated, and added code.

On top of all this, you constantly need to keep up with the specific CPT and ICD-9 codes combinations that insurance companies accept. Add to this the non standard modifiers that come with all of these which are also required by the insurance companies, you’ll have your hands full when it comes to having claims to submit to the insurance, knowing where to submit them to and what procedures to follow in order to keep from having them rejected.

Even if a practician somehow manages to find the time to get all of these things done and have a claim submitted by himself, then there’s still a high chance of problems arising further down the pipeline with your document making its way through half a dozen different locations and possibly ending up in a shred file after rejection.

Even if you do manage to get a claim processed successfully and get paid, you need to be aware of and keep up with relevant insurance regulations to make sure you were paid the right amount for every procedure. The problem lies in the fact that you have to be familiar with the thousands of different EOB formats before you are able to understand what you were paid for, what you have to adjust off, and what you can legally bill the patient.

Let’s suppose that a brilliantly multi-skilled and multi-tasking physician somehow manages and comes through all of these problems as well, he still is going to need to bill secondary payers wherever applicable run through the entire convolution all over again. If you are lucky and there is no secondary payer, then you can bill the patient. But then other problems may arise such as discrepancies between the amount you bill and what the patient thinks is already paid for; which may or may not have reached collection yet.

So instead of taking on all these headaches by sacrificing valuable time that can be spent providing better healthcare to your patients, you can hand over your administrative tasks to a medical billing company that has the expertise and knowledge to get everything from your billing processes to your claims’ approval done.

About Us:

EMRWorkforce offers medical billing solutions to healthcare services at 3-5% of the collected amount along with Allscripts MyWay EMR-EHR solution, which is a fully featured CCHIT certified EHR (Which means that the healthcare professionals may claim the Stimulus Incentive by utilizing it). You can now get Allscripts MyWay EMR- EHR for free by signing up for EMR Workforce’s medical billing services. (Conditions Apply)

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