Tracy Smith

As a medical provider, you rely on your medical billing service to handle the insurance claims your patients need to pay for the services you provide. Both sides — you and your patients — deal with different aspects of this process. When everything goes right, it’s a process with a defined outcome: your patient receives the service and you receive the payment from their insurance with little effort on either part. Let’s chat denials and appeals. Unfortunately, it’s not something that always goes exactly as planned. Insurance may deny the claim for any number of reasons, including mistakes made on the paperwork or the services falling outside the scope of what’s covered. Mistakes on paperwork Let’s start with the first scenario: mistakes on paperwork. These scenarios are often simple mistakes that prove costly and frustrating for the patient. When you and your billing service work well together, these mistakes become less common. These mistakes include misspelling the patient’s name o