Medical Billing Errors

Document Type:Creative Writing

Subject Area:Health Care

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There are five major types of medical billing errors namely; missing information, submitting two claims for the same service, service was previously decided, the patient's insurance does not cover service and late filing of Missing information. In several occasion, the demographic data on claims are missing while in other situation the information displayed is incomplete. Besides, there are some fields which can delay the entire process of processing an application such as date of birth and a complete address (Hobgood et al. The claim can also be delayed or denied as a result of the coding errors or the usage of the old codes. These errors can be solved by ensuring that all billing systems have been installed with a robust software which will reveal most of these errors preceding to the submission of the medical claim electronically.

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