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Making Sense of Medical Billing (2015-06-30)
We have all complained, at some point or another, about the cost of medical services. We complain that doctors are not as readily available as they used to be. We complain that medicine costs too much and that it takes different doctors to figure out something your parents’ doctors would have told them in one session.
While some of the complaints are certainly legitimate, in all fairness, there are some good reasons why things cost too much and take too long. And if you look at it that way, you might actually be thankful that things are not as bad as they could have been.
Part of the reason things have become complicated is that we live in a much more networked society. There was a time you would go to a doctor, pay the visit fee, get your medicine from the neighborhood pharmacy, send the papers to your insurance company, they would send (relatively) quick reimbursement, and that was that.
But that is not the reality anymore. Because everything costs more, patients do not want to pay a dime more than they have to. The want doctors and insurance companies to deal with each other directly.
This has complicated the physician billing and ambulatory surgery center billing procedures. Because there are not as many doctors per patient as there used to be, doctors cannot cope with the business side of their practice the way they used to. So, in the process, they have had to rely on medical billing and coding companies to help with the accounting side of the practice.
Since this has given rise to a massive number of such billing and coding companies, doctors also have had to find best medical billing companies that can take care of their business as quickly and efficiently as possible.
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