Since the past few years, more and more urgent care facilities, hospitals, and health systems have been outsourcing their urgent care billing. They believe it increases overall efficiency and improves the revenue cycle.
The COVID-19 pandemic has added to the difficulties of in-house urgent care billing by way of adverse economic effects. This in turn has made it even more important for urgent care centers to outsource their billing and coding work to vendors and urgent care billing services.
Not only does outsourcing help better the processes and operations, but also makes it easy to manage the workings of your organization. Other than that, outsourcing your urgent care billing has the following additional benefits.
Positive Effects of Outsourcing to Urgent Care Billing Services
- Makes Time for Improved Patient Care
Urgent care billing is a time-consuming and intensive job. Even a slight miss or medical billing and coding error can lead to hundreds if not thousands of dollars in lost revenue. Not to mention the many hours of back-and-forth with insurance and collections companies. As an urgent care facility, your top priority should be your patients. Why have your staff spend hours each week filling out paperwork, when you can easily outsource your urgent care billing services. Outsourcing helps your resources focus on the aspect of their job that matters most –– taking care of patients.
- Reduces Costs
When all your urgent care billing needs are handled in-house, you need to hire full-time staff. Coding, billing, and communicating with insurance companies is time-consuming and tedious. It’s true that full-time coding and billing professionals can make the process run smoother, but adding on more resources also adds more expenses, including retirement benefits, vacation hours, and more. There’s a lot less to worry about if you outsource your urgent care billing work. You not only receive high-quality billing services but also reduce costs. You can also easily upgrade or downgrade any service at any time. Plus, you can do it without having to lay off anyone.
- Decreases Stress
Operating a hospital, clinic, urgent care center, skilled nursing facility, health system or medical laboratory involves a lot of work. From contacting and connecting with patients to hiring trained staff, to also managing day-to-day operations and more. All these activities leave very little time for one of the most important aspects of your business — revenue. But when you outsource a lot of the weight is taken off your shoulders. Your staff gets more time to focus on their patients and no longer have to spend hours trying not to make mistakes while billing and coding patient records.
- Improves Regulatory Compliance
When your staff is tasked with juggling several different activities in your urgent care center, something is bound to fall through the cracks. Unfortunately, even a slight failure to comply with rules and regulations, could cause you to lose your medical license or even end up paying a huge settlement. The fact that the rules and regulations are constantly changing makes compliance even more important. A qualified urgent care billing specialist can help you remain nimble and help you to adapt and adjust.
Why Wait? Take Advantage of the Expertise of GMB
Gables Medical Billing (GMB) has been providing medical billing and coding for years in Florida. Our team of dedicated billing specialists and billing managers have helped several companies and catered to their unique demands.
Once you hire urgent care billing services in Florida, for all your billing needs, you can bid adieu to slow billing and delayed claims payments. For more information you can speak to a GMB urgent care medical billing specialist today at (786) 725-2120, (855) 469-1422 or visit https://www.gablesmedicalbilling.com/ and leave your queries. We assure you a quick response.
