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Medical Billing

Medical billing is making a place for itself in the industries. These days, healthcare providers of all types are being overwhelmed by medical billing and claims work as well as inexperience at collecting insurance money. Their need becomes your demand. As an independent medical billing processor or consultant, you'll be relieving doctors, nurses, and other health workers of their biggest headache. You do this by reducing their overhead, eliminating the need for additional medical billing clerks and speeding up their payments on claims. Need further proof? Here are the facts: Fact No. 1: The Agency for Heathcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) states that "the United States spends a larger share of its gross domestic product (GDP) on health care than any other major industrialized country. Expenditures for health care represent nearly one-seventh of the Nation's GDP, and they continue to be one of the fastest growing components of the Federal budget. There are over

Medical Billing Outsourcing

To outsource or not to outsource? That is the question that's been plaguing almost all medical offices these days. Your practice is growing and it's getting busier with each day that passes. Your staff is getting frazzled servicing all those incoming patients, not to mention answering phone calls and whatever crisis your office might be going through that day. Plans don't necessarily apply to life because things are never predictable. As a doctor, you know this more than anyone. Although coding errors might be a fact of life if you do your own medical billing and coding, you really don't have time for it. So how do you deal? The industry tells you that medical billing outsourcing is the answer. But is medical billing outsourcing really beneficial? In a word, absolutely. True that there are cons to medical billing outsourcing, but the pros more than make up for it. With the burden of medical billing handled outside your office, medical billing outsourcing can d