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Friday, March 4, 2016

By Ellen Donalds


If you are looking to start a medical billing company or have one, then 2016 is a great year for you. You will start to notice that many healthcare providers are looking for a professional billing company to represent them. They are looking for a billing company to save them both time and money. You will stand out if you know ICD-10 coding and have a history of getting higher returns.

It is clear that billing in 2016 is going to get a lot harder and billing companies are going to reap the rewards of their hard work. For years, medical billing companies had to battle for business against stay at home medical billers. With the new ICD-10, it is a lot harder and 9 out of 10 times, home billers do not have the right software to work with professional healthcare establishments. This makes medical billing a lucrative and great industry to be involved in.

If you look on the internet and search for "medical billing companies", you will find that there are thousands of them in the United States alone. It is going to be hard to choose which one to go with. If you are a professional doctor, it is best to choose a business that works well with your company. If you are trying to land a good customer, it is best to make your services stand out. In order to do this, you will have to follow some simple rules.

As a medical biller, you are required to do billing perfectly. There is no room for error. Professional billers that work for billing companies often say that they are afraid of losing their job. This fact is mainly due to the fact that they are afraid of their bosses saying that they are not good enough to work for them. Medical billing jobs are not hard to find. However, good medical billers are. There is a 17% job shortage of qualified workers in the medical billing field. Most people do not understand ICD-10 coding.

Having a medical billing client is the easy part. The hard part is having them stay with you for life. In today's competitive market, it is becoming standard that a medical billing company should get a 20% to 30% higher revenue than an average in house biller will get. If you can't do better than an in house biller, than a doctor would most likely say, "Why should I outsource my practice to you?" You have to make the doctor feel like he is getting something extra special out of this.

Acting like an aggressive collector in front of your client is often good. When a client sees that you care about their business, they are more prone to work with you. Many billing businesses will suffer if they cannot do a better job than an in house biller can. Set the business up to be professional. Don't set up a home office. Most doctors frown upon working with stay at home billers. Instead, rent out some office space.




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