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Insurance processes a claim and patient balances can change. A patient’s costs may include deductibles, copayments, coinsurance, secondary insurance, adjustments, payments, credits, refunds, and corrected claims. If these changes are not recorded accurately patients can receive statements that do not match their account.
RBS offers patient billing services to physician, medical group, hospital, outpatient facility and speciality practices. We review insurance payments and adjustments, keep accurate patient balances, prepare statements, monitor patient A/R and follow outstanding accounts per your procedures. We want to ensure your staff and patients have an accurate, organised, and simple way to deal with patient billing.
Our patient billing services allow healthcare practices to manage patient balances accurately and efficiently. RBS helps you keep patient accounts organised, reduce outstanding balances and improve the overall billing experience for practices and their patients. RBS can help with billing and statement management, payment follow-up and account support.
The first step to accurate patient billing is to confirm the balance is the patient’s responsibility. RBS reviews the EOB or ERA, insurance payment, contractual adjustments, secondary coverage, account history and other financial transactions to confirm the amount due. This assists in ensuring patients are provided with clear and accurate statements based on the final account balance.
The statements should be produced from the current account ledger. Our patient billing services help you prepare statements based on your practice’s billing cycle and communication protocols already in place. This way, the amount shown to the patient matches the financial action that has been taken.
Patient payments need to be applied to the right responsibility and the right account. Our team posts payments, adjustments, refunds, credits and reversals according to the practice’s procedures and the actual transaction. Good patient billing management requires a ledger that clearly shows what has been paid.
An unpaid statement does not necessarily mean the patient did not make payment. It may be a credit or secondary claim or unresolved adjustment or unapplied payment or insurance update on the account. Our patient billing services will review the account history prior to any further follow-up to ensure staff are not pursuing balances in need of correction.
Secondary insurance adjudication, corrected claims, payment reversals, refunds or other account activity may alter patient responsibility. New transactions affect responsibility and the balance is reconciled. This keeps patient billing current instead of an old statement amount.
Practice administrators need visibility into the age and value of patient balances. Reporting can separate recent accounts from older patient A/R, show payment activity, and identify credits or other account conditions that require attention. This gives patient billing management a clearer view of outstanding patient revenue.
A clear patient billing workflow helps practices keep account balances accurate and current. Insurance adjudication, account reconciliation, patient responsibility, statements, payments, and final resolution all connect to ensure each account is reviewed before the next step.
The EOB or ERA is reviewed to determine what amount the payer assigned to the patient.
Payments, adjustments, secondary insurance, credits, refunds, and prior transactions are checked.
The remaining patient balance is validated before the account enters the statement cycle.
The account moves through the practice's established statement process.
Payments are recorded and applied to the appropriate outstanding responsibility.
The balance is closed after payment, approved adjustment, refund, corrected adjudication, or another documented result.
Every step connects to the next — from reviewing insurance adjudication and reconciling the account to confirming patient responsibility, generating statements, posting payments, and resolving the remaining balance.
It starts at registration. The practice collects patient demographic and insurance information. Eligibility is verified and authorization or referral requirements are satisfied as applicable. Accurate information at the front end helps avoid claim issues that could later affect the patient's responsibility.
During the encounter, the physician records the diagnoses, procedures, services, and treatment rendered. Billing uses this information to prepare the claim with the appropriate ICD-10-CM, CPT, HCPCS, modifier, provider, and payer information. The claim is then presented for adjudication.
Once the payer processes the claim, the insurance payment and contractual adjustments are posted to the account. The insurer may apply a patient-responsibility amount, such as a deductible, copayment, or coinsurance. All account activity must reconcile to this amount before issuing a statement from the practice.
Patient demographic and insurance information is collected, eligibility is verified, and applicable authorization or referral requirements are addressed.
Diagnoses, procedures, services, and treatment are documented and used to prepare the claim with the appropriate coding and billing details.
The claim is presented to the payer for adjudication and processed according to the patient's coverage and plan rules.
Insurance payments and contractual adjustments are posted to the account, including any deductible, copayment, or coinsurance assigned to the patient.
Account activity is reconciled to confirm the actual patient responsibility before a statement is issued.
Statements are issued, patient payments are processed, and the balance is tracked according to the practice's established protocols.
Patient billing must stay connected to the insurance outcome because later adjustments, secondary remittances, reimbursements, or posting changes may affect the patient's actual liability.
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The balance is reviewed against the payer's actual response.
Accurate statements require an accurate account ledger.
Additional payer activity can change a balance that was previously assigned to the patient.
Open credits should not remain unnoticed while the same account continues to age.
Patient billing management is structured around the office's established statement, payment, and follow-up workflows.
The cost of patient billing services depends on patient volume, statement frequency, payment activity, account complexity, aging, and the amount of account follow-up required.
Practices should also consider the internal hours spent on statement preparation, payment posting, account research, reconciliation, credits, refunds, and patient A/R reporting. Outsourcing can move these repetitive tasks into a defined workflow while allowing office staff to focus on patient-facing and operational responsibilities.
RBS can audit a representative sample of patient accounts to review EOBs, ERAs, payments, contractual adjustments, credits, refunds, statements, and outstanding balances. The assessment can identify whether patient responsibility is being calculated and maintained correctly. A focused review can also expose upstream insurance or posting problems that continue to affect patient billing management after the claim has already been adjudicated.
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Patient billing is the process of managing balances assigned to the patient after insurance processing or when the patient is responsible for the full charge.
Patient responsibility is generally based on the payer's adjudication and may include deductible, copayment, coinsurance, or another applicable amount after the account is reconciled.
A statement should generally follow confirmation of the account balance and the practice's established billing cycle. Exact timing varies by practice.
Yes. Patient billing services can include payment posting, account reconciliation, credits, refunds, and related patient-account transactions.
Yes. Errors involving insurance payment posting, contractual adjustments, secondary insurance, credits, refunds, or claim processing can affect the amount shown as patient responsibility.
Yes. Patient billing management can include aging review and follow-up on older balances according to the practice's procedures and applicable requirements.
Yes. The two functions should remain connected because insurance adjudication and payment posting determine many balances that ultimately become patient responsibility.
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