Health Care, Medical Billing and Coding

ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLES - CALLING

The main thing in medical billing is AR calling. This help us to check why are payments have not been received.

Medical accounts receivable follow-up involves following up with entities such as Insurance carriers, Physicians, Hospitals and patients for information required to resolve the pending accounts at the earliest. Calling is a support media for A/R Analyst to close an outstanding account. Calling is done on accounts which are outstanding for more than 40 days and for which no correspondence has been obtained.
SCOPE:
Calls are made to the following entities by an AR representative:

 Insurance carriers
 Hospitals
 Physicians office
 Patients

I will explain you need details about what exactly its all about the above calls to be made and why?