Effective Medical Billing: Get Paid On Time by Pinky McBanon how you run
your practice. Your patients must know their benefits and eligibility.
Encourage your patients to contact their insurance company regarding their
unpaid claims. The insurance is more attentive when the member makes the
phone follow up.As a medical biller myself, I can collect Medicare payments
by "paper billing" in less than 2 weeks!, you can imagine the electronic
claims submission. I refuse denial and rejection, because I believe, if
the medical service have been rendered, it is just right to have it get
paid. Many of my provider clients just give up, but, well, I don't.
As long as he wants his payments, I never give up collecting his money..
at the end, we were successfully got paid. It is just a matter of how
you deal with the insurance and aggressive follow-ups.Medical claims should
be submitted on a daily basis. Never delay claims submission. Promptly
respond "immediately" to insurance letters that you receive, if they require
additional documents,
such as, medical referral, medical prescription, progress notes and letter
of medical necessity to process the claims. Always comply what they require
to expedite processing of the claims.As a medical biller, you should also
be a medical coder. The doctor gives the diagnosis description on the
script but usually always with the wrong diagnosis code. It is not their
concern to code a diagnosis,
but to descriptively provide the diagnosis. You must know how to analyze
and help your provider submit the right diagnosis code.Author The Author:
Pinky Mcbanon is a Systems Engineer and a Medical Biller/Coder.She shares
her medical billing and coding expertise with http://www.medclaimsplus.com
And she shares her technical support expertise with http://www.fix-exchange.com
(your online source for free computer technical support!)