It really does pay to engage a vendor who has embraced the current advances in technology and employed automation in a way that ensures accuracy and efficiency in your billing processes. Now more than ever -- with increasing patient billing volumes and the resulting medical billing costs -- healthcare providers who incorporate innovation in their patient billing procedures gain the fiscal advantage.
Working with the Medical Group, Emerald was able to save a potentially disastrous situation, and help the Medical Group quickly adapt to the changing competitive landscape by adopting beneficial technology and automated processes to ensure it won't have to deal with missing Medicaid billing again.
Understanding Medicaid Challenges
Your front office staff probably works hard to verify the patient’s insurance at the time of service and may even assist self-pay patients with enrolling for Medicaid, but what happens after checkout? A time-consuming process of continually monitoring self-pay visits and patient Medicaid enrollment status. This daunting manual task results in many billable opportunities going unnoticed and written off as bad debt or timely filing adjustments.
