{"id":79,"date":"2016-10-10T12:49:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T12:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcoders.com\/dme-billing-services-blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2023-06-07T04:17:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T04:17:12","slug":"5-tips-improve-your-dme-billing-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcoders.com\/dme-billing-services-blog\/5-tips-improve-your-dme-billing-efficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Tips to improve your DME billing efficiency and speed A\/R collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A good <strong>DME billing <\/strong>workflow ensures an effective Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) process. Moreover, with the minimum of errors in your DME billing, the process for claims management and thereby the Accounts Receivable (A\/R) collections also improves impacting the RCM process and providing for healthy cash inflows. Best Strategies to Improve the <em>DME Billing Efficiency<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So what are the necessary ways to ensure that your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcoders.com\/speciality\/durable-medical-equipment-medical-billing-services.html\">DME billing process<\/a> will help speed the A\/R collections?<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Here are some 5 simple yet effective ways to make effective DME billing efficiency and thereby speed up the A\/R collections at your practice<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Verification &amp; eligibility of insurance coverage:<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is most necessary to ensure that when the DME services are billed, the patient\u2019s insurance coverage has been verified and the services\/ equipment\/s are covered by the insurance or by Medicare. If not, this could lead to delays in payment and resubmissions which could prove costly in the long run<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Trained in-house staff \/ Outsourced expertise:<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No matter what you go for in-house DME billing or outsourcing, workers employed in handling the claims submission need to be knowledgeable about the different rules and requirements for claims submissions. The healthcare regulation changes can impact the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/Medicare\/Billing\/ElectronicBillingEDITrans\">RCM<\/a> process and DME services can see reimbursement rates drop by 50 percent at any given time if one is not aware of the updated regulations<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Stringent Coding:<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Coders need to be well-versed in coding, especially when it comes to DME services and the equipment used. The mere error in just a transposed number in a claim code, or even entering an outdated modifier, can lead to a rejected or denied claim, leading to a loss of timely reimbursement<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Effective Claims Management Process:<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Follow-ups are very essential for an effective Billing workflow and A\/R collection. It is known that many DME services lose an average of about seven percent of their reimbursements due to rejections and\/or denials and no follow-ups of the claims. This ineffective claims management process is costly to the RCM of any medical practice. An American Medical Association study, it was found that medical offices waste about $14,600 each year on rectifying denied claims through appeals, phone calls, and troubleshooting.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Improved Technology:<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Automation in Electronic Health records (EHR), enhanced Practice Management systems, improved monitoring, and enabled alert systems go a long way in making the claims process a much more effective and efficient system to improve the A\/R collections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The above 5 tips need not all be simultaneously made effective as it could be a costly overhead. But, with planning and possibly even outsourcing just the billing and\/or the claims management process, your DME services can be made to be more efficient, and thereby a much more effective A\/R collections process can be implemented. The bottom line is to see that your reimbursements keep flowing in to provide for a healthy and profitable <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalbillersandcoders.com\/revenue-management-services.aspx\">RCM process<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/435xdyt\"><strong>Medical Billers and Coders (MBC)<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is a leading medical billing company that can assist you in accurately billing for\u00a0<strong>DME<\/strong>, email us at:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:info@medicalbillersandcoders.com\">info@medicalbillersandcoders.com<\/a>\u00a0or call us at\u00a0<a href=\"tel:888-357-3226\"><strong>888-357-3226<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content addtoany_content_bottom\">\n<div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\" data-a2a-url=\"https:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcoders.com\/blog\/what-makes-outsourced-dme-billing-superior\/\" data-a2a-title=\"What makes Outsourced DME Billing Superior?\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good DME billing workflow ensures an effective Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) process. 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