Medical Billing RFP Template: What to Include
Medical Billing RFP Template: What to Include When Comparing Vendors Written by: TMS Billings Coding & Compliance Team — CPC- and CPB-certified billing and coding specialists with a combined 15+ years across primary care, specialty, and behavioral health billing. Reviewed by: Angela Ruiz, CPC, CPCO — Compliance Reviewer, TMS Billings Three vendor proposals are open […]
AI in Medical Billing: Benefits, Risks & Future Trends
AI in Medical Billing: How Automation Is Transforming Revenue Cycle Management Written by the TMS Billings Coding & Compliance Team | Reviewed by [Jacob White] Your phone rings between patient visits, and it’s another vendor pitching AI in medical billing as the fix for your denial rate, your slow reimbursements, and your stretched-thin front office […]
Top 10 Medical Billing Companies in 2026 | TMS Billings
Top 10 Medical Billing Companies in 2026 Written by: TMS Billings Coding & Compliance Team TMS Billings Coding & Compliance Team brings combined decades of hands-on medical billing experience, including CPC and CPB certified billers, supporting practices across multiple specialties nationwide, from credentialing through denial resolution. Reviewed by: [Jacob White, CPC/CPB — Compliance Director, TMS […]
Medical Billing Company Red Flags:7 Signs Its Time to Switch
Medical Billing Company Red Flags: 7 Signs It’s Time to Switch A late report here. An unreturned call there. A small, unexplained fee nobody questioned. Six months into a vendor relationship, one practice found a stack of denied claims that had never been reworked — tens of thousands of dollars in recoverable revenue sitting untouched. […]
In-House Biller Leaving? Your 30-Day Contingency Plan
In House Biller Leaving? Your 30-Day Contingency Plan Your in house biller leaving is the kind of news that turns a routine Monday into a scramble. Maybe you got two weeks’ notice over coffee. Maybe your medical biller resigned by email on a Friday and never came back. Either way, the claims queue keeps growing, […]
Medical Billing Company: 15 Questions to Ask Before You Sign
How to Choose a Medical Billing Company: 15 Questions to Ask Before You Sign A growing family practice in the Midwest picked its medical billing company the way a lot of offices do: they compared quotes, went with the lowest percentage, and signed. Six months later, the office manager found a stack of unworked denials, […]
CPT Code 90792: What It Means,Billing & Reimbursement Guide
CPT Code 90792: What It Means, Billing & Reimbursement Guide Written by TMS Billings Coding & Compliance Team — certified coders (CPC, CPB) with over 12 years of combined mental health billing experience. Reviewed by Jacob White, CPC, Compliance Director. Published August 6, 2026. A psychiatric nurse practitioner assumed every new-patient evaluation qualified for the […]
Mental Health Billing Cost Comparison:In-House vs Outsourced
In-House vs. Outsourced Mental Health Billing: The True Cost Comparison for Private Practices A solo therapist who managed her own billing thought she was saving money — until she added it up. Once she counted her biller’s salary, benefits, software subscriptions, and the hours lost each month to fixing denied claims, a real mental health […]
Coordination of Benefits in Medical Billing Explained
Coordination of Benefits in Medical Billing Explained Two claims. Same patient. Same visit. One gets paid in ten days because the biller confirmed which of the patient’s two insurance plans was primary — the process known as coordination of benefits in medical billing — before submitting. The other sits in denial for six weeks under […]
How to Negotiate Insurance Reimbursement Rates
How to Negotiate Insurance Reimbursement Rates With Payers: A Guide for Medical Practices (2026) Two primary care practices. Same payer. Same specialty. Same zip code. One practice sits on a fee schedule that hasn’t moved in four years — buried in an evergreen contract that auto-renewed every January without anyone reading it. The other renegotiated […]