4 Tips to Help Your Practice Speed up Medical Claims Payments

Do you want to get paid on time, without delays? Here are four useful tips that you can use to speed up the payment of your medical claims.

The procedure of submitting claims and getting paid has always been filled with errors. To contest this, payers now use electronic submission and some kind of billing software as well. However, even with these steps, practices are still struggling to get paid on time. Though some problems lie with the payer, there are best practices that you can use to get paid faster.

Here are four tips that you can use to speed up your medical billing process. By implementing a few or all of these suggestions, you can get your practice’s medical claims submitted on time and paid at a much faster pace.

Make it your goal to get your claims submitted within three days or less from the time of the service. You can then track the claims through payment. If everything is in order, you can receive your claims within 40 days or less and enjoy a net collection of 95%.

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5 Best Practices for Successful Medical Claims Processing

Do you want to improve your ROI and maximize your productivity, while streamlining operations? If yes, read the following five best practices for successful medical claims processing.

The AMA (American Medical Association) recently stated that the rise in claims processing errors is causing unnecessary costs for the healthcare industry. The complexity in medical claims processing makes it difficult for medical insurers to find a way of reducing claims processing expenses. Usually the unwanted expenses associated with claims processing is related to claim delays and denials. The several manual and complex steps involved in the claims system further complicates the situation.

How can health insurance companies improve their ROI, reduce the steps involved in claims processing and streamline operations? The impossible can be possible by adhering to some of the below best practices. From improving your accuracy and productivity to preventing operational issues and errors, here is how you can make a success out of medical claims processing.

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