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Chiropractic billing is
different in many respects than much other medical insurance
billing. The chiropractor has an established client base that is
returning for treatment on a regular basis. From strictly a
billing standpoint this means many things. When you run into questions on your chiropractic billing, you can often find the answers you need at a medical billing forum. If someone hasn't already asked your question, you can post it yourself and get notified when anyone posts answers to your questions. You can sign up to access our medical billing forum here. Quite often as the practice grows, the provider finds that the income is not keeping up with the growth of the business. He or she is seeing more and more patients and not bringing in as much income as should be coming in for the number of patients seen. The problem with this is that as the practice grows, it becomes more difficult to keep up with all the required tasks of authorizations, referrals and insurance billing. It takes time to check to make sure he or she is getting paid for all the visits and to deal with the problems that arise with insurance billing. It is not unusual to be on the telephone for 40 minutes or longer trying to straighten out an insurance issue when you are doing insurance billing. If you want to make sure you are getting paid for all your visits, you must have good systems in place. You need a system for billing out all your insurance and patient bills, a system for tracking them, and the time to take care of all this. If you no longer have that time to devote to the insurance billing, you need to hire someone who will take care of this process for you. For more information on setting up good systems that work, check out our new book “Chiropractic Billing Made Easy”.We bill for many chiropractors in several states. If you are interested in contacting us about submitting and tracking your insurance claims call Alice or Michele at 1-800-490-4299 Return to Home from Chiropractic Billing |