The Advantage of a Billing Partnership
with Straightline Medical Billing

Limited resources for billing

A team of coding, billing and reimbursement specialists

Loss of billing functions due to sick and vacation time, short-term disability and staff turnover

No loss of billing functions –team coverage sick, vacation, and other lost time

Overhead including personnel, benefits, office space, computer & office equipment and supplies, maintenance and computer repairs, telephone, long distance, internet access, postage

Billing costs are included in the contract

Supervision and management of the billing personnel/department

Revenue cycle management including daily oversight, monthly reporting and data analysis

Limited knowledge or time to keep current on state and federal regulations pertaining to practice management and the ever changing policies of coding, medical policies and billing protocols

A team of resources from certified professional coders (CPC and RCC), a certified compliance officer, and specialists dedicated to the most current information available on state and federal legislation to commercial carrier medical policies and protocols

Data analysis limited to the skills and abilities of the billing staff

Extensive customized reports and detailed data mining to analyze the revenue cycle daily cash flow information

Reliance on the software vendor to resolve claim mapping and clearinghouse issues

Expertise developed from years of providing billing support for software vendors including EDI claim mapping, ANSI standards and direct working relationships with many major software vendors and clearinghouses

Limited expertise to meeting Meaningful Use and Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) standards

Expertise to reaching Meaningful Use payments and Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Standards