Physician Services

The process of billing for services can make or break a practice. The health of your organization is heavily dependent on how well your patient accounts and reimbursements are managed. Physicians Advantage Services offers comprehensive medical billing including medical claims processing, patient collections and more. We provide expert medical billing to healthcare services providers, medical practitioners, therapists and other medical care services seekers across the nation.

Medical Claims Processing

Understanding exactly what happens when the claim is sent from your office to the time you are reimbursed for your claims will help make your decision to outsource your medical billing a lot easier. No matter how you get your paperwork to the billing company, the claims submission process is roughly the same for all claims. This standardization in submitting claims, make the reimbursement process a lot faster for you.

You are well acquainted with the procedures for coding and documenting a patient's visit to your office. If you do your own billing inhouse, the claims are then sent by your office staff to the carrier or Medicare for reimbursement. The reimbursement process can take anywhere from 3 to 6 weeks if you are filing your own medical claims.

Internal Patient Collections

Our professional collection service is designed to manage delinquent patient accounts that fall beyond the regular collection activities. In rare instances, tougher actions are required to get your delinquent accounts current. This value added service operates in compliance with the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

Insurance Contract Review

Understanding the language and benefits of your insurance contract is essential to ensuring that payment for your medical services is processed and reimbursed accordingly by the insurance carrier. If you are considering enrolling with a new insurance carrier, we can evaluate the contract prior to signing and help you make a more educated, informed decision.

Physician Credentialing

Insurance companies and contracts are forever changing. Physician offices should be dedicating their time and efforts on patient care, not paperwork. Leave the tedious paperwork to us. We know the process of insurance applications and contracts. We work with contracting issues therefore; we know who to contact, what language to watch for, and how to speed up the process so that you can be participating and treating your patients.

As a provider you have many licenses, certificates and provider numbers that you must keep current. We can update your provider information for the licenses, certificates and provider numbers so that you have one less thing to be concerned about. We watch expiration dates on these items so that there is no lapse in you treating a patient. Let us do the business paperwork and we will let you be the excellent physician that every patient deserves.