PSYCHIATRIC BILLING SERVICES
Our mental health billing services are designed to alleviate the burden of paperwork, allowing you to prioritize patient care.
For over a decade, Remote Expert Solutions has been offering comprehensive psychiatry billing services to mental health providers. Our objective is to optimize insurance and patient collections, enabling our clients to concentrate on patient care and expand their practices. With our experienced team handling your psychiatry medical billing, you can minimize administrative tasks and dedicate more time to your patients.
Psychiatry Medical Billing Services Increase Provider Revenue
Our medical billing company offers a groundbreaking approach to revenue cycle management, encompassing all aspects from credentialing to daily claims management to annual reviews. Simply put, we safeguard your income. Our mental health billing services are delivered by a team of experts who possess a deep understanding of the coding and billing system as a whole, along with the expertise to identify the codes and situations specific to this specialized field.
Billing Services Tailored for Your Specialization
Psychiatry entails highly specialized medical care, demanding meticulous attention to detail in billing. Remote Expert Solutions provides comprehensive revenue cycle management (RCM), encompassing claim processing and resolution of rejections and denials, thereby significantly easing administrative burdens and enabling psychiatrists and medical staff to concentrate on patient care. Outsourcing RCM and associated administrative duties, such as payer credentialing and compliance reviews, has emerged as a successful strategy for practitioners and medical establishments nationwide. We deliver mental health billing solutions designed to facilitate reimbursement from payers seamlessly.
Compliance Reviews and Payer Credentialing Available
Remote Expert Solutions offers comprehensive behavioral and mental health billing services that go beyond mere coding and billing. Our full suite of revenue cycle management (RCM) services includes credentialing to broaden your network, verifying coverage and obtaining pre-approvals, conducting audits, and more. We believe in flexibility, so our services are not bundled, ensuring that you only pay for what you truly need.
Medical Billing Issues Encountered in Psychiatry
Psychiatry billing and coding present inherent complexities, compounded by annual code changes and evolving payer policies. These challenges can overwhelm a busy practice striving to deliver excellent patient care. While not exclusive to psychiatry, these aspects significantly heighten the billing complexity for this specialty. Fortunately, our team of mental health billing specialists is equipped to manage these intricacies on your behalf.
Complex Coding
In psychiatry coding, there exists a multitude of codes for similar services, each serving distinct purposes. For instance, a different CPT code is mandated to specify whether an evaluation was conducted by a medical or non-medical provider. This complexity poses challenges for inexperienced coders who may struggle to accurately complete claim forms due to the sheer volume of details involved.
Furthermore, add-on codes are prevalent and obligatory but necessitate pairing with a primary code. It is imperative for psychiatry billing specialists to be well-versed in these codes to ensure both are included; failure to do so may result in claim denials.
Referrals are Usually Required
Typically, patients require a referral from a general practitioner to consult with a psychiatrist. Thus, it’s crucial to ensure that the referral has been submitted to the payer before the patient’s appointment. To simplify matters for patients, medical practices often refer them to specialists within the same insurer’s network to ensure coverage for treatment. As a result, psychiatrists must be credentialed with a wide array of insurers, as well as government payers.
Complicated Rules for Coverage
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), all plans available through the Health Insurance Marketplace are mandated to include mental health and substance use disorder services. However, the ACA does not specify the exact coverage requirements, resulting in significant variations in coverage among plans. Even within the same insurance carrier, policies may differ from state to state.
Medicare provides coverage for mental health care through separate parts: Part A for hospital insurance, Part B for medical insurance, and Part D for prescription drug coverage. Given that patients may be enrolled in various options for each part, along with supplemental insurance, managing mental health billing services becomes highly complex and necessitates specialized training and experience. Professional billing companies are well-versed in these intricacies, allowing them to accurately file claims on your behalf.
Seamless Billing, Happy Patients: Optimize Your Practice with Our Billing Services
Providing mental health care to a high-need population can be demanding for both medical staff and doctors. Adding administrative stress to the mix only exacerbates the situation unnecessarily. Outsourcing revenue cycle management to Remote Expert Solutions offers a solution that alleviates this burden.
Certified Coders and Billers Manage Your Claims
Our certified and experienced coders and billers specialize in providing psychiatry medical billing services. They are adept at identifying issues and swiftly resolving claims-related problems. By eliminating lost staff time spent on appealing claims and successfully obtaining payment on denied and rejected claims, we save you money, more than covering the small percentage of collections that constitute our fee.
Outsource Your RCM to Remote Expert Solutions
You can entrust all your psychiatric billing needs to Remote Expert Solutions as our services are tailored to suit your requirements. From comprehensive revenue cycle management (RCM) to integrating new coding into our proprietary software, we ensure your billing stays current and efficient. This allows you to devote more time to patient care. Contact us today to discover how we can enhance your revenue management.