CO-50 Denial Code: 5 Costly Mistakes (And How to Fix Them)
CO-50 Denial Code: 5 Costly Mistakes (And How to Fix Them) The CO-50 denial code is consistently one of the most frequent denial reasons payers issue, and tighter medical-necessity review means many practices are seeing more of these denials in 2026. Our Revenue Cycle Management Services team works through these denials regularly, so we know […]
Top Costly Anesthesia Denial Codes 2026 (+ Proven Fixes)
Anesthesia Denial Codes: The Top Reasons Anesthesia Claims Get Denied (and How to Fix Them) Rising claim volume, tighter payer scrutiny, and increasingly detailed requirements for medical-direction documentation and time units can make 2026 a difficult year for anesthesia billing teams. anesthesia denial codes help your team identify where a claim failed and what evidence […]
ABA Billing Services Cost 2026: Avoid Costly Surprises
ABA Billing Services Cost 2026: Avoid Costly Surprises Rising ABA caseloads, a growing number of new BCBA-led practices, and tighter payer scrutiny on prior authorizations and service units mean more organizations are comparing in-house billing against ABA Therapy Billing Services than at any point before. Understanding ABA billing services cost 2026 has become essential for […]
Superbill in Medical Billing 2026: Costly Mistakes to Avoid
Superbill in Medical Billing 2026: Costly Mistakes to Avoid Self-pay volume, high-deductible health plans, and growing out-of-network utilization in behavioral health and therapy practices mean more practices are issuing superbills in 2026 than at any point in the past decade — frequently without a standardized process behind them. Our Medical Billing Services team works with […]
Best Outsourced Medical Billing Virginia: 7 Powerful Perks
Outsourced Medical Billing Virginia: 6 Key Benefits Virginia medical practices are under growing financial pressure. Reimbursement rates continue to tighten, staffing costs keep rising, and the payer mix your front-desk team manages every day has grown more complex, especially with Cardinal Care, Virginia’s Medicaid managed care program, now central to daily claims work. TMS Billings’ […]
Good Faith Estimate Requirements: 5 Rules to Avoid Fines
Good Faith Estimate Requirements: 5 Rules to Avoid Fines Under the No Surprises Act, failing to meet Good Faith Estimate requirements for a self-pay or uninsured patient can trigger civil monetary penalties of up to $10,000 per violation. Practices that treat this step as an afterthought — a verbal number at check-in instead of a […]
Outsource Medical Billing Georgia: Best 2026 Guide
Outsource Medical Billing Georgia: The Complete 2026 Guide for Practices Georgia’s Medicaid managed-care landscape is in the middle of a significant transition. Amerigroup and Peach State Health Plan’s long-standing Care Management Organization contracts were not renewed, while CareSource continues its participation and Humana and Molina Healthcare of Georgia join UnitedHealthcare of Georgia as new plan […]
GLP-1 Billing 2026: Avoid Costly Prior Auth Denials
GLP-1 Billing Challenges Every Practice Should Know (Wegovy, Zepbound & More) A single injection pen can be billed three different ways — a covered diabetes drug, a denied weight-loss prescription, or a covered cardiovascular or sleep-apnea treatment — depending only on the diagnosis code attached to the claim and the payer reading it. That instability […]
7 Costly MassHealth Billing Challenges to Avoid
7 Costly MassHealth Billing Challenges Every Massachusetts Practice Should Know MassHealth routes claims through three separate structures: Managed Care Organizations (MCOs), Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs, including Accountable Care Partnership Plans), and the legacy Primary Care Clinician (PCC) Plan. Generic Medicaid billing advice rarely accounts for the routing and authorization differences between these structures, and that […]
9 Costly Medical Billing Errors North Carolina Practice Make
7 Critical Medical Billing Errors North Carolina Practices Make By the TMS Billings Revenue Cycle Team North Carolina’s payer landscape does not behave like the national averages most billing guides are written around. Blue Cross NC controls the largest share of the commercial market in the state, and NC Medicaid Managed Care splits coverage between […]