Year End Medical Billing Checklist: 9 Easy, Essential Steps
Year End Medical Billing Checklist: 9 Easy, Essential Steps The final weeks of the year decide how much 2026 revenue your practice collects and how cleanly 2027 begins. Aged claims, unworked denials, and outdated payer rates all carry into January, which is why many practices turn to Revenue Cycle Management Services for added capacity. A […]
2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Avoid Costly Cuts
2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Avoid Costly Cuts CMS has proposed lower Medicare conversion factors for 2027, and practices cannot wait for the final version to learn what that means for revenue. The 2027 Medicare physician fee schedule is the annual CMS rule that sets Medicare Part B payment rates and policies for physician services, […]
Outsource Pain Management Billing: 5 Proven Cost Savings
Outsource Pain Management Billing: 5 Proven Cost Savings Pain management billing carries more coding, prior authorization (PA), and denial risk than general medical billing, and every unresolved claim consumes staff time while delaying cash flow. Should you outsource pain management billing to a specialized partner? In practice, that means handing claim submission, coding, denial follow-up, […]
Clean Claim Rate Below 95%? Proven Fixes for Revenue Leaks
Clean Claim Rate Below 95%? Costly Causes to Fix A claim that fails the first pass rarely means just one delay; it becomes rework, and rework quietly drains staff time and cash flow before anyone spots the pattern. Reliable Revenue Cycle Management Services exist because this happens often in small practices, where claim follow-up competes […]
Denial Management in Medical Billing: Stop 5 Costly Gaps
Denial Management in Medical Billing: Stop 5 Costly Gaps A denied claim is rarely a final answer; in most small practices, it is simply an unworked one, and unworked denials quietly become write-offs. So what is denial management in medical billing? It is the structured process of logging, sorting, correcting, appealing, and analyzing denied claims […]
TMS Insurance Coverage 2026: Avoid Costly Denials
TMS Insurance Coverage 2026: Avoid Costly Denials Transcranial magnetic stimulation is FDA-cleared and clinically established for treatment-resistant depression, yet a fully delivered course can still be denied over a missed prior authorization or an undocumented medication trial. TMS insurance coverage refers to the set of payer rules that determine whether, and under what conditions, a […]
Timely Filing Limits by Insurance: Avoid Costly 2026 Denials
Timely Filing Limits by Insurance: Avoid Costly 2026 Denials A claim can be documented, coded correctly, and payable, yet earn nothing because it reached the payer after the deadline. Late claims rarely announce themselves and return months later as denials that appeals may not reverse. TMS Billings’ Revenue Cycle Management Services center on claim accuracy […]
Medical Billing Audit Checklist: 27 Hidden Revenue Leaks
Medical Billing Audit Checklist: 27 Hidden Revenue Leaks Revenue rarely disappears in one visible event. It leaves through small, approved-looking transactions, such as a missed charge, an underpaid claim, or a denial that no one appealed, because nothing appears wrong. Our Revenue Cycle Management Services team at TMS Billings focuses on billing accuracy and audit […]
How to Choose a Medical Billing Company 2026:Top Proven Tips
How to Choose a Medical Billing Company 2026: Top Proven Tips A billing vendor that is the wrong fit rarely reveals itself before the contract is signed. It shows up afterward: denied claims, slow payments, and staff hours lost chasing payers instead of patients. Strong Revenue Cycle Management Services start with choosing a partner deliberately, […]
Outsource Gastroenterology Billing: 7 Proven Best Practices
Outsource Gastroenterology Billing: 7 Proven Best Practices Gastroenterology (GI) billing carries specialty-specific rules that generalist billing teams often miss, from colonoscopy reporting that changes with payer and clinical intent to payer-specific modifiers and facility claims. As staffing gaps and denial pressure grow in 2026, more practices choose to outsource gastroenterology billing to a dedicated specialist. […]