Billing companies that work allergy and immunology 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:
Allergy billing looks easy from the front desk and is not. The revenue is a pile of small things: percutaneous and intradermal tests, antigen preparation, injection visits, spirometry, and an office visit that may or may not earn its own payment on a testing day. Each line is worth little by itself, so payers deny them by the hundred and nobody chases them. The usual culprits are modifier 25 on a visit when you also test, test units that do not match the antigens named in the chart note, and antigen vials billed by visit count when the payer wants doses.
The expensive half of the practice is biologics. Asthma, hives, eosinophilic disease and eczema patients now spend years on injectable drugs, and every one of them runs on a prior authorization with an expiration date. Miss the renewal and the next claim denies, sometimes for a drug you already bought. Then comes buy-and-bill: does your office stock the drug and carry the cost until the payer pays, or does a specialty pharmacy ship it? Each path has its own claim form, its own unit conversion from the vial, and its own way of losing a month. Timed food and drug challenges add another problem, because the note has to show the minutes and the physician in the room.
In-house staff usually get a few things wrong. Shot-only visits go out under the wrong supervision story. Antigen prep claims never match a delivery claim. Prior auths live on a sticky note. A good allergy biller keeps a renewal calendar for every biologic patient, audits units against the chart every month, and reads the payer's testing limits before your panel gets cut down. Outsourcing makes sense when one person holds the whole injection and prior auth workflow in their head, when you have started buying biologics, or when a second physician has doubled the volume. In the form, give your weekly injection visits, say whether you buy and bill, and name your EHR.
Three steps. Most practices hear from the first billing company within a business day.
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