Billing companies that work sleep medicine claims every day. Describe your practice once and compare their proposals.
A few questions about the practice, then billing companies that fit send proposals. You are not committing to anything.
Hand off all of it or just the parts that are breaking. Say which in the form so the proposals match.
Charges entered, claims checked against payer edits, and sent daily so clean claims go out the first time.
Every denial worked, appealed, or corrected, with the root cause tracked so the same denial stops repeating.
Old balances called on and worked by payer and by age until they are paid, adjusted, or written off on purpose.
Certified coders assign CPT, ICD-10, and modifiers from your notes, or audit the codes your providers pick.
New providers enrolled with payers, CAQH kept current, and revalidations handled before they lapse.
Statements, online payment, payment plans, and the phone calls that come with them, handled in your name.
Eligibility checks, prior authorizations, and old AR cleanup go through the same request. If you only need one piece, say so.
There is no right answer for every practice. The usual tradeoffs:
Sleep medicine looks like simple billing until you try it. A home sleep apnea test, an in-lab polysomnogram, a split-night study, a CPAP setup visit and a follow-up with a compliance download are five different claims with five sets of rules, and the payer decides which ones it will pay for before the patient ever lies down. Prior authorization is the first wall. Plans push toward home testing and want a documented reason before they approve an attended study, so the order and the clinical note have to agree, and they have to agree before the date of service.
The second problem is how the work gets split. The technical component belongs to whoever owns the equipment, and the professional interpretation belongs to whoever reads the study. A practice that does both has to keep the modifiers straight or lose half the claim. Scoring that is late, signed late, or never tied to the right study sits in a denial pile. Multiple sleep latency and maintenance of wakefulness tests carry their own documentation demands. Authorization for a nerve stimulation implant should read like a surgical case file. Pediatric studies get different treatment from many payers, and an in-house biller working from a cheat sheet will be wrong on those more often than anyone admits.
The third is equipment. If you dispense CPAP machines and supplies you are also running a DME business, with its own payer enrollment, resupply timing and adherence data due early in therapy. Treat that as a footnote and you find out when a machine has been rented for months and nobody can prove the patient used it. Outsourcing makes sense for sleep when denials keep climbing, when signed studies sit unbilled, or when the one person who knew the codes has left. A good sleep biller reads the interpretation queue, works the prior auth list and calls on short pays. In the form, say if you run in-lab studies, home testing or both, if you dispense equipment, and which payers hold the most unpaid balances.
Three steps. Most practices hear from the first billing company within a business day.
Specialty, providers, claim volume, your software, and what you want handled.
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