Friday, March 4, 2016

Utilization Management: Physicians Are Asking Medical Billing Companies For It

By Jazmine Edwards


You are the go to person for physicians everywhere. They depend on you to make them money. Without proper billing, not healthcare establishment can survive. It is hard to get a professional billing company to believe in you. It is a fact that medical billing companies today have to know a lot about: collection, benefit verification, revenue cycle management and utilization management. It is hard to understand how all of this works under ICD-10 if you are not properly trained.

It takes a lot of education to learn ICD-10 properly. A person must spend years in training before they can call themselves and expert. Many billers today are expected to have at least a bachelor's degree and certification in ICD-10. Doctors, hospitals and medical practitioners expect you to understand utilization management as well. Utilization management is a process in which you have assistance with effective clinical documentation, an intensity in services and program scheduling. There are peer to peer reviews and eligibility verifications. Medical billing today also involves benefit verification and revenue cycle management.

It is becoming harder for medical billing companies to find qualified people to do coding. They are beginning to outsource their work to professional companies that have offices. It seems like the medical industry is moving away from working with their in house billing team. The main reasons because they are not experts in it. Medical billing companies spend many years perfecting their craft. They know and understand billing like the back of their hand. Would you rather have a professional chef that cooks day in and day out to host your wedding or a home cook?

If you want to stay in business, make sure to work with the doctors that you represent. Doctors have to worry about using medical treatment for necessary ailments. Doctors can't just give people random blood tests for no reason and expect the insurance company to pay for it. Today, those day as over with.

Today, insurance companies are asking doctors to be more responsible and don't give a patient what they don't need. Insurance companies are trying to put a stop to bogus billing. Bogus billing was popular under ICD-9. Many blood labs would take multiple blood tests from a client just to get money from the insurance companies. Today, this has changed completely. Your business must have benefit verification and revenue cycle management as well.




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