Aug 9, 2008 | Medical billing basics
The main thing which client need – Reports Daily Reports After the daily routine of demographics, charge entry, claims processing etc are done, the accounting day is closed. This is a process wherein you are closing a particular day and opening the next day for...
Aug 7, 2008 | Medical billing basics
The final process – Budget payment and move to collection agency Some times patient may not be able to pay full payment of co-pay dues,co-insurance dues, Deductible dues or any balance mentioned by insurance.They would be ready to pay their dues in installments...
Aug 6, 2008 | Medical billing basics
Calling process – Patient calls In most of the Companies, they do not encourage doing Patient Calling from here (India). Because the caller should be very polite, very co-operative, not to use any irritating words and should talk friendly manner to the patients....
Aug 3, 2008 | Medical billing basics
Calling process – Insurance callsThe call center (In India) function in co-ordination with the analyst is the most important function in billing. They are the persons who actually speak with the other parties in billing viz. like the insurance and the patient.In...
Aug 1, 2008 | Medical billing basics
Role of Account receivable person AR – part 1 Bringing down receivables Let us discuss each category in detail.CLAIMS NOT IN SYSTEMThere may be various reasons why insurance carriers say claims are not in system.(a) The claims mailing address may be...
Jul 31, 2008 | Medical billing basics
Role of Account receivable person AR – part 1 Introduction There may be some claims which would have been sent to the carrier but would not have reached them or would have kept pended with them for want of certain information or would have reached them but not...
Jul 29, 2008 | Medical billing basics
Very important process in Medical billing DENIALS/REJECTIONS Action on Regular Mails or denials This is a most important function in the process flow of data. Unless this is taken care of, insurance AR will only be on an upward trend. Regular Mails contain tremendous...
Jul 28, 2008 | Medical billing basics
What are the payments we have ? Hello Friends,Other than regular insurance payment we need to know other payments also. They are Offset:· If there is an adjustment in an EOB shown by the insurance company of a claim previously paid incorrectly and now they are taking...
Jul 26, 2008 | Medical billing basics
How to post the payment – payment posting process Yes, We will continue from last posting.ClaimClaim # is the ticket number followed by 1, 2 or 3 for primary, secondary and tertiary insurance companies respectively.•Claim•Line Item•Patient Payment•CLAIMSelect...
Jul 25, 2008 | Medical billing basics
How to post payments – Payment posting process – Introduction Once the claims reach the carriers and they complete processing, they issue a check and prepare an Explanation of Benefits (EOB). The checks and the EOBs would be sent to the pay-to address with...
