I asked 3 times if he wanted me to send paper, he said no. He wants all "clean electronic" billing.
Medicare Part B: I need a submitter ID as a billing company in TX, he needs to apply for electronic billing privileges after my ID comes in.
Aetna, BCBS, Humana and UHC I haven't contacted yet, I'm assuming it's the same deal. I have them on the calendar to call tomorrow.
He needs web access as well to all payers. Or can I sign up for that as a practice management company. I want to be able to see claims online and download the remits. Right now the agreement is his staff to fax or email to me.
I need copies of his contracts, he does not have any on file or can not find them, therefore no fee schedules available to me at this time. Can I call on his behalf to obtain these? Or will he need to?
I'm using a software vender to submit claims, but I am not sure if I have to register with Availity for a submitter ID as well.
Merry,He's Chiro. I have not billed Chiro before, but I do have 7 years experience with PPO's and Medicaid. No Medicare experience though. I am about to buy Michelle and Alice's Chiro billing book so I can start reading and learning about billing for chiro And I've seen a lot of Chiro ?s here and on Linda's site, I plan to read and reread all of them lol. I asked 3 times if he wanted me to send paper, he said no. He wants all "clean electronic" billing. The company he was using is called Inception, I have not heard of them but they are still using the old paper cms1500 form, so his claims have all been kicked back. He's ready to take a loss on the billed claims and just submit April forward. Medicare stated I can submit for him on paper, just not electronically until my ID comes in. So far looking up BCBS, BlueLine, Humana, UHC, Aetna and Cigna it looks like I just have to register with availity. Hopefully that's all I have to do and I can get to helping him bring in cashflow. We bill Medicaid like that at the "real" job I have. Our smaller Medicaid payers do not have portals to direct bill, so we submit claims through TMHP (Texas Medicaid) and they transfer them, man if I could do that with Medicare lol