Outsourcing Billing Operations

Is billing a distraction rather than a focus? Here's what some companies have done. When Frank Marshall went to assess the billing operations of a surgeon's practice, he was stunned to learn that somewhere between 700 and 800 surgeries had not been paid for. They had not even been billed! Another medical practice had 60 percent of its insurance claims denied because of billing errors. In both of these situations, millions of dollars a year were lost due to badly managed billing operations.…