If you are alive and well you probably can attribute a portion of that to great health care. This means that in one way or another you have probably been involved in medical insurance billing. When you provide your doctor or dentist your insurance information you have begun a process that is repeated many times every day in health care facilities and offices across the nation.
You would think medical insurance bills would be pretty simple, just tuck an invoice in an envelope and mail it off. But there is actually a lot of detail involved in the billing process. One of the first things your doctor's staff will need to do is verify your health insurance and then interpret the patient's insurance benefits. Unraveling the mysteries of insurance that include Medicaid and Medicare, HMO's, PPO's and IPA's is a big task and with ever changing insurance rules, rates, co-pays and deductibles it can get quite confusing.
After the insurance and the benefits have been figured out you need to be able to bill the insurance in a very special way. This way consists of coding that helps your doctor communicate with your insurance company. These billing codes will determine what your insurance will pay and what is the patient's portion. Health care is not cheap and if the billing is done incorrectly it will cost you a lot of time to get it cleared up. You should always look at all your bills from any health care facility from doctors to hospitals to make sure you have been charged correctly and your insurance has paid the correct amount.
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