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Showing posts with label healthcare. Show all posts

Friday, 24 August 2018

An Introduction to charge entry & payment posting process.

Billing cycle begins with charge entry and comes to an end with payment posting. Charge entry process and payment posting services process are the most crucial stages in medical billing. A good payment posting process helps streamline the manual payment process helping you save time and money. It requires careful allocation of codes in the software system handled by experts of the field. Outsourcing it to Bikham means you can sit back and trust the team of professionals who will handle your Charge entry and payment posting process with the due diligence required, resulting in a streamlined operation.

Our professional prowess:

To begin with the charge entry process in medical billing, the service provided by us can either be part of revenue cycle management services or a stand-alone service. Our team has years of experience in managing the charge entry process assisting various medical practitioners.

As such, they can get on with the process straight away, quickly familiarizing themselves with the practice and with Physicians way of working. Saving both time and effort.
Several years of experience with multiple specialties enables us to define a customized strategy which lessens the risk of error resulting in successful claims.

                            Payment Posting Process


Charges are assigned to the client management system software based on account specific rules.
The pending/held documents are returned to the clients for clarification purpose.
The final charges/amount is examined by the quality team before being the claim is sent for processing.

We're one of the leading medical billing companies with competence in handling charge entry for various medical billing practices. Our team isn't just limited to data entry, they also provide value addition. In case, if we find out any error in the final bill at the time of entry, the charge entry for final bill is paused until the clarification is sought from the client.

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The compensation received from the payers or patients are updated in the clients' management system. Payment posting is performed by our team in two ways:

Auto Posting: Explanation of benefits is submitted in electronic remittance advice/ERA form which can be downloaded directly onto the client management system. In brief, the entire payment posting process is done in the system software so as to audit it anytime.

Manual Posting: In this process, the EOB is initially sent to the posting team, where they are examined at the practitioner's place of business, and then eventually shipped by the team in an envelope or delivered to the providers' location by other means. Once the payment is retrieved, the posting process is continued by the batch creation of payments in order to prevent any error.

Bikham Healthcare ensures the process is handled by a team of experienced professionals to make sure physicians get paid on time and there are no errors in payment processing.
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Thursday, 24 May 2018

Leverage Radiology Medical Billing Service to Take your Business to the Next Level

Radiology is the medical field that uses medical imaging techniques to diagnose and treat physical disorders. Radiologists analyze and interpret scans like MRI, X-Ray, PET scans etc. They also play the role of a consultant by recommending doctors to patients if more tests are needed. In the same breath, handling radiology medical billing along with the treatment can be perturbing and time-consuming.

Medical billing for radiology can be demanding because of numerous diagnostic and procedural codes involved in it. We, at Bikham are completely aware of the nature of your radiology practice. By outsourcing radiology medical billing services to us, you get a team which is always up-to-date with the changes in the healthcare system and has the ability to help you submit your claim, incur reimbursement quickly and augment cash flow.

Denial Management Services: The experts in our team are deft in managing and analyzing denials. Figuring out the reason for denials can help a lot to get them paid easily and avoiding further denials and revenue losses, simultaneously. If the reason for a denial is incorrect code, that can also be rectified by our medical billing team. We understand that the wrong codes can't be changed, but the codes that eligible for the reimbursement from the insurance can be put forward for the processing. Denials are needed to be treated carefully because almost 10% of revenue is lost due to ineffective denial management.

Final Verdict: Revenue management services of our medical billing team for radiology provide daily, weekly and monthly reports and hence, keep you updated about all the facets of your practice.

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