Billing

Overview

Essential Components Of The Medical Billing Workflow

Introduction As we speak of better and more efficient medical billing in healthcare, managing and moving patients through every visit while assembling data for the submission of claims and collecting the outstanding balances of patients, the components of the medical billing workflow work precisely its duty. Promote Patient Engagement ● …
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How to Use Modifier 25 Correctly

Introduction Modifier 25 is a critical part of the Medicare program, but it can be difficult to understand and use correctly. In this post, I’ll explain what Modifier 25 does, why it’s needed, and how to use it properly. If a patient comes in for a preventive visit and the…
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Are You Chasing Your Revenue

Introduction Your practice’s revenue cycle management is the process of collecting, tracking, and reporting on your payments from patients and payers. If you’re not collecting 100 percent of your revenue, it’s not only costing you money—it’s also hurting your reputation with patients who may decide to go elsewhere when they…
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How to Measure Productivity of Medical Coders

Physicians and other healthcare professionals spend a large amount of time coding patient data. A medical coder is responsible for entering the codes into electronic medical records, billing the insurance company, and submitting claims to receive reimbursement. The amount of time spent coders varies between practices based on their coding…
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Claim Rejected By the Insurance?

Here’s the Top 5 COMMON CLAIM REJECTIONS And How To Fix It Fixing claim rejections is easy once you know what’s going on. Multiple rejection messages may appear for one entry because each payer/clearinghouse worded their rejection message differently. MISSING OR INVALID PAYER ID According to this rejection, the payer…
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WWS SPECIALIZED MEDICAL BILLING PAYMENT POSTING

EOB READING AND ANALYSIS In medical billing, decoding the payment posting process includes decoding the Patients’ names, account numbers, control numbers, service dates, procedure codes, billed/allowed/adjusted amounts, denials information, deductibles, co-insurances, co-payments if any, and so on. The second you receive the EOB from the insurer, you should read it…
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