Medical Billing

Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive programs will provide EHR incentive payments to eligible Professionals & Hospitals as they demonstrate meaningful use of certificate electronic health record (EHR). Max earning EHR incentive $44,000 covering five years, it will decrease if your hospital starts after 2012. Program checklist Physician or Hospital need to verify the eligibility for the Medicare EHR incentive program. And need to get registered for the program, need to use certified EHR technology, also need to demonstrate meaningful use and finally need to attest through Medicare website to get EHR incentive payment. If your hospital registered in 2012. 2012 – $18000 2013 – $12000 2014 – $8000 2015 – $4000 2016 – $2000 Total - $44,000  

Above mentioned three modifiers are used in your claim to get paid, but you need to have supporting document to get paid.  Also your documentation needs to explain why the services required more/less/stopped services in midway.  You should be very careful when you use modifier 22, 52&53. Modifier 22: Description: Service that required significantly greater effort than typically required. Increased procedural services, this modifier used when you update it means physician performing the service more than the actual requirement, as mentioned above you need to have supporting documentation to get paid. Also we cannot use this modifier for E&M services and with 63 modifiers. In below scenario you can use this modifier. Patient condition Physical effort requirement Mental effort requirement Time and Technical difficulty Modifier 52: Description: Reduced Services Reduced services, this modifier used when services is reduces / practical

ecare.com is a great resource for Medical billing, especially its very useful to find NPI details we can use as optional for NPPES.com. we can check eligibility for BCBS, Aetna and other major insurance. Its really a great tool for Medical billing Service. Specially to check patient eligibility for many insurances from one web portal also it provides details like a insurance sites.

Whitepages.com is a great resource for Medical billing and patient statement related cases. Where in we can use the website to find out the patient correct address, there are lot of option available in Whitepages.com. Following are the ways we can find out the patient details. Reverse phone People Search Reverse address lots more. Its really a great tool Medical billing services