Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Treatment Centers: The Benefits Of Outsourcing Your Billing

By Daniel Oatwoods


Let's face it. Nobody likes to do medical billing unless you have to. It is time consuming and tedious. Many treatment centers outsource their billing to established companies that handle ICD-10 coding. They are professional at what they do and often get you a higher return on your investment. Outsourced medical billing companies often charge anywhere from 4% to 10% on average. Is it worth it to pay them that kind of money or to have an in house person work for you? In reality, it is better to choose this for yourself.

In order to get paid on your claims from insurance companies, you are going to have to document everything. A good coder today will document everything about your client. Insurance companies today want to know how much progress your client is getting for what they are giving you a payment for. Many treatment centers today claim to give clients their best services. Insurance companies may not see your treatment as being necessary and therefore may not pay you. If you send a claim in to the insurance company for $30,000 for 30 days of treatment, they will often give you $10,000 for many different reasons. In order to combat this, a person with lots of experience must handle your coding.

When you outsource your medical billing to a company, they work hard for you. In order to keep you as a client, they know that they must make you happy. If you are not happy with them, then you will most likely fire them. They often charge you between 4% and 10% for their service. This may or may not work for you depending on how much money they can get for your rehab. Alcohol rehabs are expensive to run. You need to pay employees from all walks of life to work for you and for various reasons. If your treatment center is not profitable, you could be losing money each week and thus your business will eventually be shut down.

Medical billing companies are not hard to find these days. If you search in Google, there are over 30,000,000 searches that come up. That is a lot of information and so few people know which one to choose. If you are not having any luck with you in house biller, it is important to outsource the work. Most coders are not prepared for ICD-10. It is mainly because nobody really knew that the changes would be so significant. Many coders now are asking themselves if they should go back to school or get certified. It is coming to a point where everyone is going to have to get certified eventually. Those certifications mean that you know what you are doing.

Outsourcing your billing works for many treatment centers these days. The main reason is that these coding companies have been training for ICD-10 for over 2 years. You're in house staff may not be trained or equipped to handle these longer codes and therefore it will keep you from getting paid. You may have to wait longer than 90 days to see a check from an insurance company today if you don't know what you are doing. Having a staff around you that knows what they are doing makes complete sense.




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