How An Experienced Medical Billing Company Can Increase Your Collection Rates

If you manage a healthcare practice, you should know that a medical billing company can handle many of the billing and administrative tasks of your practice and free up your staff so that they can focus more on your patients. An experienced medical billing company can offer more organized and efficient operations within your practice, reduced billing and coding errors and increased patient and employee satisfaction. Another primary benefit of their services includes increased collections rates for your office.

Medical billing and collections are crucial areas in a healthcare practice. A proficient medical biller must be able to efficiently maximize collections and minimize the amount of money lost due to claim denials. In addition to managing many facets of your office operations, a proficient medical billing service can also help alleviate the burden of collections.

An article on Business News Daily explains, “Medical practices rely heavily on the effectiveness of their billing operations. Healthcare might be the top priority, but your medical practice is still a business and needs to make money to survive. Billing is complicated process with a number of opportunities for things to go wrong. From coding errors and processing delays to dealing with insurance companies and trying to track down unpaid patient accounts, your office staff has to balance many tasks while still managing patient care.” Hiring an experienced medical billing company can alleviate many of these time-consuming tasks from your office staff so they can focus more on your patients.

A professional medical billing company will manage all denials and appeals and they will use their knowledge and experience to develop and implement billing and collection improvement strategies that are designed to minimize outstanding accounts receivables, reduce denials and optimize collection results.

In addition to managing all billing and coding services, payment tracking, revenue reporting and financial reports, an experienced medical billing service can also help to streamline your entire collections process by following up on unpaid insurance claims, tracking past due bills, identifying those patients who have fallen behind, and automating late fees.

If you want to increase the collection rates of your healthcare practice, Medical Reimbursement Services of Long Island (MRSLI) can assist your office. MRSLI is a full service, highly experienced medical billing and collections agency that offers expert medical billing and administrative services that can increase the efficiency of daily operations of any medical practice. They offer comprehensive automated solutions to help decrease business spending, increase collection rates and ultimately increase business revenue.

If your practice wants to dedicate more time to patient care and less time to collections, billing, coding and administrative tasks, contact Medical Reimbursement Services of Long Island. Call them today at 516-781-8100.