Medical Billing Articles & Guides

Medical billing is the backbone of every healthcare practice's financial health, yet it remains one of the most misunderstood and underinvested areas of practice management. The average medical practice loses 5 to 8 percent of earned revenue to billing execution failures — denied claims that go unworked, visits coded below documentation support, prior authorizations that expire without renewal, and accounts receivable that age past collectability. For a practice producing $1 million annually, that translates to $50,000 to $80,000 in preventable losses.

The medical billing services landscape ranges from full-service revenue cycle management partners who handle everything from eligibility verification through final payment collection, to basic claim submission companies that process transactions without addressing the denial management, AR follow-up, and coding optimization that drive the majority of revenue recovery. Urgent care and anesthesia billing represent two areas of high complexity within the general medical billing landscape. Urgent care centers face high patient volume and the constant challenge of verifying new vs. established patients in a walk-in setting. Anesthesia billing requires precise tracking of base units, time units, and physical status modifiers. Effective accounts receivable management is critical for all practices to prevent revenue from aging past collectability.

Medtransic provides comprehensive medical billing services built on specialty-dedicated coding teams, performance-aligned pricing, and proactive revenue recovery audits. Our guides in this category cover the full spectrum of medical billing topics, from cost analysis and company evaluation frameworks to specialty-specific billing requirements and the warning signs that indicate your current billing operation is underperforming.

Medical Billing Articles

• Accounts Receivable in Medical Billing: How Much of What You're Owed Is Already Gone - Most practices don't have an AR problem — they have an aging AR problem. Claims older than 90 days collect at half the rate. Older than 120 days, the odds drop to 1 in 4. Here's how to know where your practice stands, and what's still recoverable. (13 min read)
• Anesthesia Billing Services: Why Most Anesthesia Practices Are Getting Paid Less Than They Should - Anesthesia practices routinely lose 8–14% of collectible revenue to billing errors that never show up on a denial report. Here's what's happening on every case — and what it's costing you. (12 min read)
• Urgent Care Billing Services: The Per-Visit Errors That Cost High-Volume Clinics Thousands Every Day - Urgent care billing errors don't look dramatic. They're $12 here, $18 there — a wrong visit code, a missed after-hours charge, an S code your biller skipped. Multiply those small misses across 80 patients a day and you're losing $30,000 to $50,000 a month before a single claim is denied. (13 min read)
• Medical Billing Services: What They Actually Cost, What They Fix, and How to Tell If Yours Is Losing You Money - The average medical practice loses 5 to 8 percent of revenue to billing errors — denied claims nobody reworks, visits coded below what the documentation supports, authorizations that expire without warning, and accounts receivable that age past the point of collection. For a $1 million practice, that is $50,000 to $80,000 per year. For a multi-provider group doing $3 million, it is $150,000 to $240,000. Medical billing services exist to close that gap. But not all billing companies are equal, and choosing the wrong one can cost you more than handling it in-house. Here is how to evaluate, compare, and choose. (20 min read)
• Medical Billing Services for Small Practices: You Are Doing Too Much and Collecting Too Little - You finished charting at 8pm last night. You spent your lunch break calling Blue Cross about a denied claim. Your office manager handles billing between check-ins, and half the denials from last month are still sitting in a pile nobody has touched. You are running a medical practice and a billing department at the same time — and both are suffering. Here is what it is actually costing you and what to do about it. (10 min read)