Evaluating Compliance Strategies | [Type the document subtitle] | | This is about the evaluating compliance strategies on billing and coding and how if following the guidelines of the insurance companies. Also that the payer will paid the bill if it is correct. | | By: Bonnie S. Jarosiewicz | 1/15/2012 | |
It is a very long process for billing to prepare the bill that is required to submit for payment. There also have been a lot of mistakes when billing because some did not know the guidelines of medical coding when sending the bill to the insurance company. This assignment will show how to making medical billing and compliance strategies so mistakes will not be made. Even through that not any means is any one perfect …show more content…
There are times that the claims are not complete and are return to the medical office for further information. Because a lot of claims have been sent back to the medical office they have to come back with a decision that is evaluating compliance strategies in medical coding to keep the billing consisting and efficient. There are so many methods of evaluation compliance strategies in medical coding then meeting with the doctor and billing staff to make sure the necessary handbooks are understand and how to use the coding systems. The insurance companies sends out there rules and guidelines to make sure the billing staff has a better understanding in billing codes and form completion procedures. One of the biggest complaints that the insurance companies have is that the doctor reports are incomplete. This is very hard on the insurance companies to give the properly bill for what the patient was diagnosis …show more content…
In the document it will explain what the doctor has done with the patient. For example if the doctor has order labs then it will be in the document. When sending the claim to the insurance company all document needs to be fill out correctly and they do there own investigation to make sure every thing is correct if there is something wrong with the diagnosis or in the report the insurance company will send it back and payment could be a delay or even worse. By make sure the information is correct the billing department in the medical office needs to make sure it is legal to read and that the codes are correct. The Medicare and Medicaid have there on guidelines so the billing department needs to read all rules that Medicare and Medicaid have. If the billing department has any question they can call the Medicare and Medicaid office or look up on the website to see how to code the diagnosis right. If Medicare Integrity program was cited as example of guidelines used by regulators to identify coding errors during audit and deny the payment to the provider when improper billing occur.
For each denied claim payment owned to the medical practice are also