Doing your own billing G Hanson

From: Gwen Hanson <gs_hanson@yahoo.com>
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 07:54:56 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [Practiceimprovement1] billing question
Reply-To: Practiceimprovement1@yahoogroups.com

Hi Scott,

The claim form is mailed to the address on the
patient's insurance card. You keep a payer library in
EZ claim with correct addresses and you do have to
check these often. EZ claim will sometimes insert the
wrong address (because there are mult. addresses per
insurance company).

Entering checks/EOBs into EZ claim is very quick and
practically fun. Denials decrease and your billing
behaviourchanges quickly when you are directly in the
feedback loop. Even if you continue to use a billing
service, be SURE to carefully examine your EOBs to
detect behaviours you should change.

For example, Aetna says phlebotomy is experimental and
they won't pay unless the patient signs a waiver
before the blood draw. Now, all my patients sign a lab
waiver before I draw their blood. There's no way my
billing help would have told me that.

Good luck with all this! I'm VERY HAPPY I do the
billing now and I was very scared before.

Gwen Hanson