Going by the recent statistical result 208 million visits to family physicians each year the relevance of family medicine to the U.S. health care system had never been more pronounced. Family Physicians delivering a range of acute, chronic and preventive medical care services have a patient base unmatched by any other medical specialty. Family Medicine enormous reach entails judicious billing and coding for optimum reimbursement of medical bills, absence of which will adversely impact physicians revenues and medical efficiency, and the healthcare system at large.
Fortunately, Family Physicians can fall back on qualified and experienced billers and coders – certified by AAPC (American Academy of Professional Coders), well versed in ICD-9, CPT and HCPCS coding based on CMS and AMA guidelines, and HIPAA privacy compliance– to mitigate such an adverse scenario. Our billers and coders, who fit the bill, have been favorites of a majority of leading Family Physicians, clinics, diagnostic centers, and hospitals.
Family practice billing is among the most volume-intensive specialties in healthcare — with reimbursement tied directly to visit complexity, chronic care documentation, preventive service coding, and the accurate capture of comorbidities that must be reflected with precision on every encounter. MBC acts as your Revenue Integrity Partner by ensuring that every family practice service is coded to its highest defensible specificity, MIPS and Quality reporting requirements are met, and payer policies around chronic care management, annual wellness visits, and transitional care are applied correctly — so your practice retains every dollar it clinically justifies.
Did you know?
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Family Practitioners using consultation CPT Codes 90241 to 99248, will be accepted by commercial payers but not be accepted by Medicare; hence Family Practitioners engaging Medicare Patients should be aware of this fact to avoid denials.
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Family Practitioners providing an office visit take a decision of surgery on the same day; need to use modifier 57 for the decision of surgery in order to be reimbursed.
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E&M Modifiers 24, 25 and 57 if used accurately provide 100% reimbursement- to Family Practitioners providing any additional service to patients along with an office visit. Hence Family Practitioners can benefit with maximum reimbursements; by making optimal use of these modifiers.
Our medical billers in Hawaii aim to provide you to the best Medical Billing services with maximum efficiency. For almost 10 years in the industry now many of them have been involved in all aspects of medical billing, coding, collections and compliance to HIPAA guidelines. Our billers are located in all the major cities like Honolulu, Hilo, Kailua, Kaneohe and Kapolei. Their skills across the following can help your practice to thrive:
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Patient demographics Entry
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Filing of Electronic claims
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Follow up on outstanding and denied claims
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Auditing Codes with ICD-9 and CPT
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Timely Payment posting
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Providing reports on a regular basis to show claims status
Family practice is a high-volume, documentation-driven specialty where thin margins can erode quickly if billing doesn't keep pace with clinical throughput. MBC helps family practices Yield your EBITDA by maximizing reimbursement on complex E/M encounters, reducing denials on chronic care management and preventive service claims, and ensuring that every billable service performed in your clinic — from annual wellness visits to transitional care management — is captured, coded, and collected in full. The result is a billing operation that turns your patient volume directly into sustainable financial performance.
Ideally Phasing Family Medicine Medical Reimbursement Cycle
Traversing the comprehensive procedures involved in billing and coding, our Family Medicine reimbursement experts have been known for their ideal phasing of reimbursement process into:
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Primary Phase
Patient enrolling, insurance verification and authorization are carried out.
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Secondary Phase
Billing Family Physicians’ diverse services are translated into honest bills using advanced medical billing softwares like EHR Software: NextGen Healthcare, Epic, Cerner, AthenaOne, NueMD, TherapyNotes, DrChrono, eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, Athenahealth, Practice Fusion, TherapyNotes etc.
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Tertiary Phase
Family Medicine billing and coding experts translate aptly billed diverse services – acute, chronic and preventive medical care services; diagnosis and treatment of internal illness, preventive care, including routine checkups, health-risk assessments, immunization and screening tests; personalized counseling on maintaining a healthy lifestyle; treatment of chronic illness, often in coordination with other subspecialists; and prenatal care services – into complying codes (as per AMA and CMS guidelines)for error-free, denial-free, and optimum reimbursement of Family Physicians’ Medical bills.
There has also been diligent application of suitable modifiers to mitigate undesirable return of claimsform insurance carriers. Consequently, there has been a successful track-record of processing Family Medicine bills with the leading private insurance carriers such as Unitedhealth, Wellpoint, Aetna, Humana, HCSC, Blue Cross Group, and Government sponsored Medicare and Medicaid as well.
MBC Objective
With the sole objective of achieving maximum end-to-end Family Medicine services claim reimbursement, our Family Medicine Coding and Billing Specialists set themselves high standards in professional efficiency. Having to meet the Family Medicine Practitioners’ expectancy level amidst stringent coding and billing system, our professionals continually upgrade their competence to match ‘best practices in medical coding and billing’ for Family Medicine services.
Family practices lose significant revenue through undercoded E/M visits, missed chronic care management codes, and incorrectly billed preventive services that payers routinely underpay or deny without pushback. MBC's Revenue Diagnostic evaluates your family practice billing at the procedure and payer level — identifying where visit complexity is being downcoded, which chronic care and wellness claims are being denied and why, and how your AR aging compares against specialty benchmarks. The output is a clear, actionable breakdown of the revenue your family practice is currently leaving uncollected.
Family Medicine physicians who opted for outsourcing their medical billing with our efficient billing and coding services, have stood to gain in terms of revenues, patient influx and referrals, and benchmarking their medical efficiency.
