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Mistakes in medical coding and billing can negatively affect your practice in various ways. They can disrupt your cash flow and take your attention away from your core function of providing high quality care to patients. They can even possibly lead to fraud charges, which will harm your reputation and practice. Making a mistake and actually engaging in fraud are two entirely different things, of course. However, if the mistakes seem habitual and claims are always getting rejected, suspicions may arise.

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Medical billing is a complicated and extremely demanding process and it can be difficult for a practice to deal with all of the tasks involved. The billing function probably takes up a huge chunk of your support staff’s time—time that could be better spent caring for patients. The good news is that you can choose to outsource this process. By outsourcing medical billing, your team will have more time to deal with other important responsibilities as a healthcare provider while reducing billing mistakes.

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Even with the adoption of electronic solutions and digital overhauls in medical information management and billing practices, one of the greatest challenges that healthcare providers face still has to do with their revenue cycle. Medical billing is a complex and drawn out process. Without the right medical office software, information management and billing processes become even more complicated, resulting in all kinds of delays and losses. Below are some of the most common challenges medical practitioners face in terms of information management and medical billing, which the right software solution can definitely help ease:

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The ultimate goal of any healthcare provider is to ensure the health and wellbeing of patients. However, just as important as attending to people’s healthcare needs are several functions that make up your practice, like medical billing and coding. These areas are integral to any successful practice. Both of these functions fall under health information management, which, needless-to-say, requires pinpoint accuracy so as to avoid costly and sometimes even life-threatening errors.

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Administrative costs account for over 25% of the total expenditures of healthcare clinics and hospitals. A large portion of this goes to paperwork involved with billing, coding, records, and insurance. Each patient visit adds to the already voluminous paperwork healthcare providers have to deal with on a daily basis. What’s more is these medical facilities are obligated to maintain all these records for at least 10 years after any patient’s final visit. With the amount of information that practitioners have to manage, how do you ensure your own practice’s reliability, accuracy, and efficiency in keeping patient records?

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Here’s a fact: hundreds of millions of claims are denied by insurance companies in the US every year, amounting to billions of dollars. If you don’t have an efficient medical billing claims system, just imagine how much money your medical institution or healthcare organization is losing. Perhaps it’s time to review those rejected claims, get paid for them, and ensure that rejections are avoided in the future.

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Medical billing can be an extremely complicated process. This is why many healthcare institutions and providers hire an offshore company to handle their medical billing, in efforts to improve their accounts receivables and cash flow. There are some very reliable medical billing companies in India. The best ones have over 16 years of experience. They are ISO-certified, SSAE16-certified, are certified members of the HBMA (Healthcare Business Management Association), and comply with all applicable regulations (such as the latest HIPAA rules). They provide end to end medical billing services, including denial management, coding services, medical records indexing, insurance eligibility verification, and other services like Physician Credentialing, data conversion etc.

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For most hospitals, clinics, and private practices, the answer to this question is a resounding yes. If you take a closer look at your accounts receivable management, you will likely find that ignored insurance claims are the reason for slow cash flow. And you are not alone. Over 200 million insurance claims are denied every year in the US—and many of those denied claims are no longer followed up, leading to loss in income. Like many other billing companies yours is probably losing a huge amount of reimbursement because of underpaid, unpaid, or delayed insurance claims. Denials are usually caused by coding errors, and unattended claims remain ignored for years because of irregular (or non-existent) follow up efforts.

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