Achieving Revenue Cycle Results for a California-based Mental and Behavioral Health Provider

Understanding California, Payer, and Behavioral health-specific nuances and diligent focus on enrollment, timely filing, and payments reconciliations reduced denial rates and increased collections by 52%.

Read More

Case Study: Revenue Cycle Improvement for a Physical Therapy Clinic – Collections Double, Denials Reduce to 50%

Physical Therapy billing requires expertise to ensure holistic and sustainable improvement. Medical Necessity and prior authorization issues can cripple a practice’s financial health. Structured revenue cycle processes can help Physical Therapy clinics grow and thrive. Diligent tracking of issues and working with physicians can yield as much as 2X improvement in collections and reduce denials by as much as 50%. Get the strategies in this case study.

Read More

Shifting the Focus from Denial Management to Denial Prevention

The adage, “Prevention is better than cure”, does apply to Claim Denials as well. An effective denial prevention program requires an iterative process that includes identification of root cause, finding solutions to prevent the issue from recurring in the future, the institutionalization of these procedures through updates to standard operating procedures, and training the staff on these practices. In this whitepaper from Medical Billing Wholesalers, we bring you a few steps that you can take to prevent denials.

Read More

Best Practices in filing Physician Assistant Claim enable Recovery of over $80 K in out-of-network claims

Recovering claim dues from payers for physician assistance claims requires intricate knowledge of payer-specific guidelines. Medical Billing Wholesalers’ denials research team helped the client identify and resolve out-of-network claims.

With a focus on recovering denials of PA claims from UHC and Oxford, we rebilled the claims after adhering to the payer-specific guidelines and were able to recover over $80K of A/R, while reducing the monthly denials from 73 to 11.

Read More

Reimbursements for COVID-19 Treatments & Testing of Uninsured Individuals

As with all other industries, healthcare providers are facing financial challenges stemming from COVID-19. Getting reimbursements for COVID-19 treatments of uninsured individuals is complicated & requires healthcare providers to stay up to date with the nuances of the HRSA program for the uninsured. In this article we provide a consolidated view of everything one should know about the HRSA program for COVID-19 treatments of the uninsured.

Read More

Revenue Cycle in the Times of COVID-19 – Creating a Sustainable Financial Future

COVID-19 updates by the regulators are across the news today. With many physician practices choosing to operate remotely, and reduced patient visits to the outpatient department, the financial health of healthcare providers is now reeling under the shock of COVID-19. MBW brings you some of the areas that financial administrators working at healthcare provider entities must focus on to stabilize financial operations and restore normalcy.

Read More

Improving Days in A/R: A Best Practices Guide to Optimize Your Revenue Cycle

Improving days in A/R to MGMA benchmark of fewer than 40 days requires a comprehensive relook at the entire revenue cycle and concerted efforts to improve. In this article, we bring you insights on how to reduce the number of days in AR.

Read More