{"id":2749,"date":"2013-07-01T10:29:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T10:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcodersblog.com\/?p=2749"},"modified":"2024-11-25T11:18:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T11:18:32","slug":"necessity-of-experience-and-expertise-in-family-practice-billing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcoders.com\/blog\/necessity-of-experience-and-expertise-in-family-practice-billing\/","title":{"rendered":"Necessity of Experience and Expertise in Family Practice medical Billing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Family practice has traditionally ailed from under revenue collection for various factors related to billing and coding, like modifier omission, lack or inadequacy of supporting documentation, underscoring and claim submission. These may look like minor errors but their impact on revenue is anything but minor.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For example, given the rates at which Medicare pays family physicians now, for underscoring just one level for four visits in a day, a practitioner could lose to the tune of $8.396 in a year.<\/p>\n

Also,family practice treatments involve care components that are often handled by outside agencies<\/strong>, which are included in the same treatment episode; hence outside agencies credentials affect the final revenue outcome of a treatment. Laboratories performing tests is a point in case.<\/p>\n

Following are the reasons how a diagnostic test can affect the revenue outcome of a treatment<\/strong>–<\/p>\n