Billing companies that work DME 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:
A DME claim is only as good as the paper behind it. The item might be a CPAP, a hospital bed, a power chair or a case of catheters, but the payer is looking for the same things: a written order that matches what shipped, chart notes showing the patient needs it, and a delivery record with a date and a signature. Miss one and the claim bounces, usually months after the product left your warehouse. That is why DME denials feel different from office-visit denials. You cannot fix them by resubmitting. Someone has to call a physician's office and ask for a document the physician has long since forgotten about.
The traps are specific. Rental items need the right modifiers every single month, and one missed month can stall a capped rental. Oxygen and CPAP need compliance or retest documentation on a schedule. Power mobility and some orthotics sit behind prior authorization, and the order has to line up with the paperwork to the letter. Resupply is its own problem: billing a monthly supply claim for a patient who stopped using the device, or never asked for the refill, is how audits start. In-house staff tend to treat all of this as data entry. A good DME biller treats it as a calendar and watches the dates more than the amounts.
Owners underrate payer mix. Medicare and the Medicare Advantage plans have separate rules for the same item, Medicaid managed care plans change theirs with little warning, and commercial plans often route DME through a separate benefit manager. Outsourcing makes sense when you have more orders waiting on paperwork than people to chase them, or when your aging report shows claims sitting for reasons nobody can name. It makes less sense if the real problem is intake, because no biller can invent a face-to-face note that was never written. On the form, say what you supply and which payers carry the volume. Then give the number of claims stuck today.
Three steps. Most practices hear from the first billing company within a business day.
Specialty, providers, claim volume, your software, and what you want handled.
Your request goes to billing companies that work your specialty and take on practices your size.
Compare fees, scope, reporting, and contract terms side by side. Pick one, or none.
What practice managers usually ask before they fill out the form.
Describe the practice once and compare proposals from billing companies that fit. No obligation.
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