Whats Involved With Medical Insurance Billing Coding?
If you are healthy, you can probably attribute part of that to excellent health care. This indicates that whether you wish to or not you have most likely been involved in some way with medical insurance billing. When you give your physician or dentist your insurance information, you have started the ball rolling that’s happening in health care offices all across the United States many times each day. Ordinarily a person would think that medical insurance bills are a pretty simple thing to handle. All you have to do is stick a bill in an envelope and stick it in the mail. Actually, there is more to it than meets the eye. In medical insurance billing and coding, the very first thing your doctor’s staff will do is to make a copy of your insurance card, so be sure to have it handy. They will then need to interpret your insurance benefits. There are similarities but also marked differences between Medicaid, Medicare, PPO’s, IPA’s and HMO’s. This task can seem monumental and with the constan
