Prior Authorizations

A reliable pre-authorization process will streamline the entire revenue cycle process. Let our experienced specialists manage your authorizations to decrease denials, reduce duplication and data errors, and expedite payments.

New Bedford pre-authorization services expedite the entire revenue cycle. Our experienced staff work with physician offices and insurance payers, ensuring pre-approval requirements for hospitals, outpatient facilities, and physician offices.

Pre-Authorization Features & Benefits

  • Eliminate coverage issues when your authorization staff is out.
  • New Bedford monitors your schedules and reviews payor requirements BEFORE the patient is seen by the provider.
  • Validate demographic and insurance data early to facilitate timely reimbursement.
  • Detailed logs of authorization activity with routine updates for your team.
  • Streamlined system saves time and money.

Watch Katie Baird’s presentation to radiation oncology administrators for a full description of our authorization services.

Coding

For more than 25 years, physician practices and other healthcare facilities have trusted New Bedford as their partner for medical coding services.

We leverage the most reliable technology to provide medical coding solutions that support your organization’s goals of high quality coding in a timely manner to realize financial goals.

Streamline your revenue cycle management with the assistance of our remote coders, workflow technology and audit services.

  • Certified coders – AAPC or AHIMA certified with 5+ years experience.
  • Specialty focused coders – Knowledgeable coders for each specialty.
  • Customizable rules engine for code validation.
  • Quality Assurance – Daily batch quality assurance by coding management.
  • Trained coders code services correct the first time decreasing denials and ensuring maximum revenue.

Billing

At New Bedford, we offer more than just billing expertise—we provide a team of specialists working together and dedicated to your success.

Our Six Sigma approach is based on doing things right the first time, every time. If we make mistakes, we identify and eliminate the root cause providing you the most effective process possible to collect money in a timely manner.

Denied claims are lost money and sorting through thousands of denial reasons to identify and correct errors is time consuming and costly.

Let New Bedford’s experience and expertise resolve these issues so your staff can focus on patient care.

  • Clean claims.
  • Increase collections.
  • Reduce your teams administrative burden..
  • Reduce write-offs.
  • Decrease third-party collection costs.
  • A knowledgeable partner you can count on.
  • Experienced staff who know your payor issues.
  • Access to trained certified coders and management with 50 years combined experience.

Credentialing

Simplify the business of medicine with New Bedford.

New technologies, provider consolidation, and evolving regulations are creating opportunities to streamline an historically convoluted and burdensome credentialing process. New Bedford uses customized web-based workflow and project management applications to ensure credentialing is completed in a timely manner with minimal provider time required.

Credentialing and Contracting Services:

  • Retrieval of all information needed for the credentialing and contracting process.
  • Records maintenance in our secure database.
  • Submitting the applications and renewals in a timely manner.
  • Routine follow-up on application status.
  • Assistance with re-negotiating current contracts.
  • All states, all payers, any specialty.

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