Internal Medicine Billing Services
Internal Medicine Medical Billing Services & Revenue Cycle Management
An internal medicine billing practice often includes general and family medicine patients, so it can have one of the highest numbers of different patients coming through its doors in any given week. This means there may be any number of reasons patients come in, resulting in billing and coding issues arising constantly. While there may be few complicated procedures performed in the office, there will certainly be minor procedures and prescriptions in addition to the wide array of diagnoses that must be coded.
Losses due to medical billing and coding errors
The internal medicine billing services & revenue cycle is hit especially hard by losses due to medical billing and coding errors because it is a low-paying specialty, as medical fields go, and insurers are prone to cut allowable billing amounts for so many of the more common services that are performed when seeing general medicine patients
Internal Medicine Billing Challenges in Medical Billing and Coding
While each area of medicine has its own issues, we have found the following to be common concerns for internal medicine practices.
Front-office Challenges
The large number of routine and non-routine activities that regularly occur means that scheduling, rescheduling, and annual scheduling require additional staff time.
Government Offerings and Incentives
Because internists see such a broad sector of the population and are often the first point of contact for patients entering a diagnosis and treatment cycle, there are a huge number of government incentives and offers that the offices must be aware of, and which make staying up to date on coding updates imperative, but unlikely for busy office staff.