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Introduction:
The prime motive of every physician is to provide un-compromised medical services to his/her patients. It is based on the quality of the services that patients decide whether to visit the same physician or change for good.
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Introduction: • Only a well-trained and experienced physician can render high-quality services and to attest his/her merit, provider credentialing is necessary. • Physician credentialing is a process through which Providers are validated for their educational qualification, certification, work history, and conduct. • It is done every time a medical practitioner joins a hospital. Also, re-credentialing is performed each year. • There is yet another process called privileging through which a physician is authorized to render a certain scope of clinical service based on his/her credentials. • All these processes are complicated and consume too much time, affecting the normal functioning of medical 3 billing companies and their revenue cycle. www.ecareindia.com
Accuracy is Key • It is highly essential that the data entered in a medical billing company’s provider credentialing system matches the data entered into the Payer’s credentialing system. • If there is a mismatch, the revenue will eventually get affected. • Therefore, do a thorough check on the Provider’s background information before entering into the physician credentialing system. 4
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Use Cloud-based Platform • Documenting Provider information is essential and realtime data is the best bet. • To enable it, medical billing companies should integrate their systems with a cloud-based platform for efficient provider credentialing. • This way, documenting, accessing, and sharing data will be easier. • Constant reviewing and updating data into the cloud systems is crucial to avoid errors during submission.
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Enhance Operations through Automations
• As physician credentialing is a time-consuming process, traditional data systems will only delay it further. • Using high-end automated systems can really enhance the process. • These systems automate critical credentialing tasks to send reminders and requests for timely submission of applications or reviewing of red flags.
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Follow-up • It is a good practice to keep tabs on insurance companies once the provider credentialing process starts. • By staying in the loop and following up on regular time intervals will let you know the status of the application as well as hasten the process. • Meeting every Payer’s individual set of rules and regulations is essential.
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Tracking & Reporting • Implementing best practices will improve the physician credentialing process. One of them is tracking and reporting. • Keeping a track on the provider enrollment days, department & provider processing times, and multiple payers’ rules set is essential. • The staff must submit weekly or monthly reports with the tracked data to the higher authorities for review. • Necessary steps should be taken if there are areas of improvement. 8
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Outsourcing • Most medical billing companies are preoccupied with major medical billing functions, overlooking provider credentialing. Therefore, they lack the aforementioned streamlining properties. • In that case, outsourcing would be the best bet. Offshore medical billing companies are equipped with high-end data systems and cloud-based software to enhance the physician credentialing process. • They also come with experienced professionals who are adept in rendering error-free credentialing. • Last but not least, they ensure faster turn-around times and better revenue generation at low costs. 9
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About e-care India If you are on the lookout for a good offshore medical billing company, then choose e-care India. This experienced vendor has been serving exceptional medical billing services including quality provider credentialing services for more than 18 years. It prepares, maintains, and monitors Managed Care summaries. E-care resolves enrollment issues and track Managed Care contracts more effectively than the other leading offshore companies in the industry. To know more about e-care and its services, log on to www.ecareindia.com. 10
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