What Is Claim Scrubbing?
On the face of it, claim scrubbing is the detailed process of verifying all the data on a medical claim before it’s submitted to an insurance company or other payer institution. Yet this might sound very simple. It actually required a meticulous process and a professional eye for catching incorrect information as early as possible. Though claim scrubbing is about more than just accuracy and billing amounts. When a claim is processed quickly and efficiently it helps the patient, [...]
How To File An ABA Therapy Claim
Applied behavioral analysis therapy (ABA) practices often find themselves repeating the same traditional claim submissions formula that they were taught back at the university level. Though sometimes consistency can give an ABA provider a false sense of security against claim rejections, denials, and potential payer institution audits. More than one ABA therapy practice that made a change in their claim submission practices found that their previous stagnation was directly contributing to a loss of revenue or unnecessary delays in [...]
Tips ABA Therapists Can Save Time On Insurance Billing
Every ABA therapy practice should have some sort of insurance guide. While there isn’t technically such a guide in print, there are some key industry insights and tips that will help streamline the process in a way that will help save your ABA practice time and money. Stay Informed On Each Patient's Insurance Coverage As an ABA therapist, you need to always be mindful that not all insurance plans cover applied behavior analysis therapy in the same way. With [...]
How to Prevent Medical Billing Fraud
Medical billing fraud has a very real and unfortunate presence in the medical billing industry. Every year private insurance companies, public health institutions and government payer agencies suffer significant financial losses to medical billing fraud. In some cases, the fraud is accidental and simply related to poor practices or not using up to date codes. This is even more likely to occur with solo practitioners and small practices where the individual in charge of medical billing and coding is [...]
Ways To Improve Your Practice’s Revenue Cycle
Medical billing and claim payment are a critical stage of the revenue cycle. Even the smallest of errors in either can lead to major interruptions in your practices stream of income. Correcting a problem once it has occurred further takes away more critical resources that would be better spent treating patients or expanding your practice. The following steps will help you improve each step of the revenue cycle. Verifying information and insurance coverage as part of the scheduling process. [...]
Medical Claim Denials & Rejections in Medical Billing
Operant Billing Solutions is an industry leader helping a wide range of medical and therapeutic practices to streamline their revenue flow through our time-tested medical billing best practices. We strive to help each practice we work with to help reduce their insurance accounts receivable by getting claims paid quickly and efficiently. This allows each of our clients to focus on patient care and eventually expanding their own practice. All while taking the stress of medical billing off your shoulders. [...]
