Advantages of Utilizing Medical Billing Services

These days most doctors prefer cost-effective medical billing services as opposed to maintaining in-house billing staff to obtain maximum profits. Out-sourcing their billing to a reputable and knowledgeable billing service allows them to increase their revenue without spending their precious time collecting insurance and patient balances. It is important to consider several items that will help you evaluate the contract between you and the medical billing service provider. Important points to keep in mind are the work quality, level of customer service as well as the pricing of these services.

A few advantages of out-sourced medical billing services are as follows:

• You can utilize billing services on a percent of collections which means that the billing company is motivated to collect for you as they too will increase their revenue.  It also means that the money you pay out monthly is solely dependent on the revenue generated, keeping billing fees in direct alignment with collections received.  In-house billing costs are hard costs as they are the same each month regardless of how well the collections are. Outsourcing also allows you to concentrate on your clinic and your patients’ care. Having a medical billing company which uses a team of knowledgeable people to complete your billing ensures accurate medical billing services that fit within your budget.

• Utilizing a medical billing company can lead to higher profits as such companies are skilled in reviewing billing for correct coding and reimbursement rates for CPT codes, reviewing EOBs for correct reimbursement and can be aggressive in collecting monies owed to the doctor.   Having more than one pair of eyes looking at your billing is essential in having a check and balance system for your billing.  A good medical billing company means many billers on the back end to manage your billing efficiently.

• Hiring medical billing services allows a physician to concentrate on their business.  When the worry of how the money is coming in to run the practice is eliminated, the doctor’s energy can be directed at patient care, which is why they became a doctor to begin with.

• Some billing services also offer consulting to help train in billing procedures and changes in coding and billing.  Such knowledge may help you to increase practice productivity and project a positive image to your patients thus encouraging an increased number of patients to visit your hospital or clinic.

• The patient interaction with the billing service is crucial.  Having a healthy billing service as part of your practice cannot be stressed enough.  Bad billing can inhibit current patients from returning and certainly impact new referrals.