Billing companies that work plastic surgery claims every day. Describe your practice once and compare their proposals.
A few questions about the practice, then billing companies that fit send proposals. You are not committing to anything.
Hand off all of it or just the parts that are breaking. Say which in the form so the proposals match.
Charges entered, claims checked against payer edits, and sent daily so clean claims go out the first time.
Every denial worked, appealed, or corrected, with the root cause tracked so the same denial stops repeating.
Old balances called on and worked by payer and by age until they are paid, adjusted, or written off on purpose.
Certified coders assign CPT, ICD-10, and modifiers from your notes, or audit the codes your providers pick.
New providers enrolled with payers, CAQH kept current, and revalidations handled before they lapse.
Statements, online payment, payment plans, and the phone calls that come with them, handled in your name.
Eligibility checks, prior authorizations, and old AR cleanup go through the same request. If you only need one piece, say so.
There is no right answer for every practice. The usual tradeoffs:
Plastic surgery is the one specialty where half the schedule never touches a claim and the other half gets read line by line. A rhinoplasty paid for by the patient needs a receipt. The same nose, with a deviated septum and an airway complaint in the chart, becomes a functional case with a CPT code, a prior authorization and a reviewer studying your photos. Where that line falls is the first billing decision, and it is made in the consult room, not at the front desk.
The denials pile up on the reconstructive and functional side. Breast reduction under 19318 gets turned down for weight of resection, for missing conservative care, or for whichever threshold that particular plan prefers. A panniculectomy under 15830 is called cosmetic until the chart shows months of documented rashes and infections. Blepharoplasty wants visual field testing and photos with the lids taped. Skin cancer repairs use flap and graft codes that bundle with the excision on the same day, and modifiers 51, 58, 78 and 79 inside a 90-day global decide whether a staged revision pays or vanishes. Modifier 22 on a long case comes back denied when the op note never says why it ran long. Breast reconstruction after mastectomy runs in stages, from expander to implant exchange to nipple work to symmetry on the other side, and every stage has its own authorization and its own clock.
In-house staff usually get three things wrong: one workflow for cash and insurance cases, nobody tracking authorization expiry between stages, and surgeon notes that say "excess skin" without saying what it does to the patient. A good plastics biller reads the op note before assigning a code and knows which payers want photos attached to the first submission. Outsourcing makes sense when insurance work is a real slice of the schedule but too uneven for a full-time specialist, or when the one person who understood your global periods just left. Tell us in the form how your cases split between cosmetic and insurance, where you operate, and who handles authorizations today.
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