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ClaimCare Medical Billing Services has interviewed countless candidates that have just graduated from a medical billing school and coding school. As a rule, we find that the courses in a medical billing school (and coding school) add little value or knowledge to the resume of an individual with no prior medical billing experience.
Medical billing is a critical service that supports healthcare providers by submitting claims and collecting payments from insurance companies and patients. Medical billing specialists need to be experts to guarantee that the bills are in full and in a speedy manner. It is quite common for over 20% of a practice’s collectable revenue to remain unclaimed because of improper coding and ineffective collection tactics.
A well designed and executed Revenue Cycle Denial Management system can improve a medical practice or facility’s collections by up to 20 percent. If your medical billing team or medical billing company does not have a proper denial management system in place then you are, without question, losing money.
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Right now, the Australian Information Technology labour market is a very tight one; it’s difficult to find IT staff to hire at all, let alone retain them for any length of time. It recruitment agencies specialize in finding IT staff offshore. Even worse, Australian IT staff are expensive; people who work in white collar jobs tend to want to be paid more than blokes who work with their hands, and IT staffers are no different. An outsourcing business will enable you to save up to sixty per cent of you wage bill.
Submitting clean claims is critical to a strong medical billing process. A fundamental element of good process design is to catch problems as soon in the process as you can. Correcting a diagnosis error before a claim is submitted may take 5 minutes; correcting it after the claim has been denied will take well over an hour (and it will delay collections by 3o or more days).
Each state has passed a Clean Claim Law. The level of benefit these laws provide to medical practices and facilities starts on the low end with states such as South Dakota that provide little more than a slap on the insurance company’s wrist to states such as Texas which levy substantial financial penalties on tardy payers.