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Our National Affiliate, can provide the capability to receive the fastest reimbursement
with their many years in the electronic claims filing arena and excellent
knowledge of the healthcare industry.
Looking for someone to do your UB 92 EDI
processing then you have came to the right destination. Call us details
Today! 330.332.3115
"We are here to educate
"You" on the benefits of the clearinghouse"
Benefits Of Using A Clearinghouse
- Increased Cash Flow - If a healthcare provider were to send claims through the mail,
many weeks would pass before they would receive mail notification that errors were holding
up payment on their submitted claims. A clearinghouse collapses the wait cycle from 4-8
weeks on paper claims into an average of 5-21 days.
- Guaranteed Delivery - Insurance carriers often claim they have not received
claims that healthcare providers send through the mail. When claims travel electronically
through a clearinghouse, these instances are greatly reduced.
An
Electronic Claims Clearinghouse that specializes in maximizing access to more
Medical Payors (Insurance Companies) electronically!
"Through our
National associate they have the capacity to drastically reduce your current expenses, track your claims more
effectively, provide you reports that are truly usable and help you
eliminate issues that delay or cause adjudication errors."
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Objective:
To assist our clients to
get paid faster, easier and more reliably. To be able to
send claims electronically to any carrier who can accept claims
electronically. Our associate will implement any carrier that is not on our
payor list at the request of a client, if applicable.
How do they do this?
We offer excellent service
and support while making it easier for you to submit claims to our
National associate. Their simple and easy to read reports provide you a tool to help you increase
and measure productivity for your practice. In many
instances the service that they provide is less then half of you current
expenditures.
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Our associate
is fast becoming one of the major principals in the medical
claims processing field.
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Our associate specializes
in implementing electronic claims easily and cost effectively for our
clients. |
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They require "NO"
modifications on your system. |
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Our associate
will map the name and address of the carrier as it appears on the
printed HCFA, to their database of carriers that will accept claims
electronically. |
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They work with all Medical
Software packages, regardless of platform. |
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They verify that every
claim is accepted into the carriers electronic pipeline. |
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They provide reports which
will detail errors and other information about each batch of claims
received. |
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Our associate
will print and mail claims which cannot be sent electronically. |
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They provide reports which
will detail errors and other information about each batch of claims
received. |
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They submit to over 753
different carriers and are constantly adding to our capabilities. |
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Our associate has over 13
years experience in servicing the medical community. |
Claim Checking and Custom
Edit Capability
What edits are performed before claims are submitted? See
below.
Frequently Asked
Questions
Can your EDI program
system work with my software?
The system is made to work with almost all Medical Software. All you need
to do is be able to generate either a HCFA Print Image or NSF (National Standard
Format) file. If you have a question regarding this subject, our analysts
will be happy to work with you to get through this issue.
How often can we
submit claims?
Claims
received before 5:00 PM eastern time are transmitted to the carriers overnight.
What happens if there
is a problem in transmitting claims from EDI affiliate to the carriers?
In order to maximize our reliability, they batch all of our client claims
together before they submit them to the carriers. They do this so they can
easily track individual client claims by batch and day. If there is ever
an issue in transmitting to a carrier they will automatically take care of
resending the claims.
EDI affiliate retains all correspondence indefinitely and therefore they have no issue in tracking specific claims if that becomes necessary. They
will archive your claim files indefinitely and have the ability to resubmit a
batch if that is ever required.
How often can we
submit claims to the EDI affiliate?
You can submit claims to them as frequently as you require, from multiple
times per day to once a week.
We need to submit to a
carrier that no one seems to support, what can you do?
They will implement any new carrier at the request of a client, assuming
that the carrier can accept a version of the National Standard Format.
Claim Checking and Custom Edit Capability
Clearinghouse Points of Interest
- A clearinghouse serves as a liaison between the healthcare provider and the insurance
company.
- Insurance carriers have everything to gain by delaying payment to healthcare
providers. This is known as floating claims. Insurance carriers make millions
of dollars annually on the interest accrued in not paying providers in a timely fashion.
How Insurance Claims Are Filed
In most cases, when a healthcare provider renders a service to a patient, the
providers staff must generate a bill to the insurance company. After the insurance
company receives the bill, payment is mailed out to the provider. This may sound
simple, where in fact the only relatively simple part is the keypunching portion. This is
where billing centers are a big help. Healthcare providers have a tough time getting paid
these days. Insurance claims, submitted to insurance carriers, are being heavily
scrutinized for eligibility, fraud, and justification. This is known as the adjudication
process.
Healthcare providers file claims either by paper claim forms through the mail or
electronically using software. In most cases, practice management software is used
regardless of how claims are submitted. If software is used, claims are sent to insurance
carriers via a clearinghouse. Sometimes, insurance carriers act as their own
clearinghouse, enabling healthcare providers to submit claims directly to them and thus
bypassing commercial clearinghouses.
Please take a few moments to answer the following questions. If you answer yes to more than three (3)
questions, you may want to contact us about helping you on how to processing your claims through
our National associate.
1. Are you tired of claims being rejected over and over again?
2. Are you tired of hearing the insurance carrier request information that you
already sent with the initial claim?
3. Are you tired of hearing that your claim was never received?
4. Are you tired of waiting 30-45 days for payments, even though you are sending
electronically? (This generally means that the electronic claim you submitted to
the clearinghouse has been dropped to paper before being sent to the insurance carrier.)
5. Are tired of your clearinghouse editing and downcoding your claims?
Not All Clearinghouses Are Created Equal!
A healthcare transaction clearinghouse performs auditing services on insurance
claims. If a claim is determined to be free of typographical, syntax, and logistical
content errors, it is forwarded to the insurance carrier responsible for payment. If
errors are detected, it is returned to the healthcare provider along with an explanation
of what was wrong. The healthcare provider may then correct the errors and resubmit the
claim for another pass. This process may be repeated until the claim passes the
inspection.
Our purpose is to help you understand the
differences between our associate and the others, so that you can reduce your rejection rate and increase your cash flow dramatically!
Clearinghouse Types
Healthcare providers using the free or low cost software
distributed by some insurance carriers are subject to biased auditing of their claims,
since the software may reject certain coding combinations during data entry. Most
clearinghouse income is derived from the insurance carriers which is referred to as
"rebates". Insurance carriers typically do not charge anything to receive
claims. Insurance company biased processing routinely checks for
ten of thousands of error combinations. Clearinghouses do not modify the claims they
audit, they simply reject or accept the claims. Some rejected claims are reported
back to the healthcare provider, but many more claims just "sit there" until a
tracer or formal complaint is received. Then claim rejection occurs.
Other clearinghouses rely on negotiating rebates with insurance carriers.
We rely on excellent editing prior to traveling to the insurance carriers.
Benefits of a Clearinghouse
It's pretty easy to see the importance of identifying the type of clearinghouse you
work with. Since claims do not
travel direct to the carrier, our associate is able to perform increased cleansing edits prior to
claim submission. They also offer healthcare providers reduced claim processing rates
and enhanced support through our national associate.
The sheer number of practices and clinics filing bankruptcy indicate
that there must be a better way to manage the billing process. Let's take action
today.
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