Health Insurance Verification

Taking proactive steps to verify patient health benefits is essential for every medical practice to prevent denials and delays in payment. An established medical billing company based in the U.S., Outsource Strategies International (OSI) can take care of your health insurance verification tasks, helping you save time and money as you focus on patient care. We verify patients’ insurance benefits prior two days services are provided, preventing non-payments that can impact your bottom line.

We provide customized patient eligibility verification services for various medical specialties. Our HIPAA-compliant medical billing company has vast expertise in working with government insurance as well as commercial insurance companies such as Blue Cross Blue Shield, United Healthcare, AETNA, and GHI etc.

Once we receive the patient schedules we verify patients’ coverage benefits via payer websites and calling up the insurance company directly.

The comprehensive health insurance verification services that we provide for medical practices of all sizes are:

  • 1) Insurance Benefit Verification
  • 2) Insurance Authorization
  • 3) Updating the Medical Billing or Practice Management System with verified details.

We verify all aspects of the patient’s coverage: payable benefits, co-pays, coinsurance and deductibles, policy status and effective date, type of plan and exclusions if any, claims mailing address, referrals and pre-authorizations, and lifetime maximum. Our team also contacts patients if necessary to confirm contact details and demographic information.

Our comprehensive and efficient medical eligibility verification services can:

  • 1) Speed up your medical billing process
  • 2) Prevent claim submission errors and rejections
  • 3) Free up your in-house resources
  • 4) Reduce bad debt
  • 5) Increase cash collection
  • 6) Improves patient satisfaction

Besides verifying new patients’ insurance, we will also ensure that returning patients’ records are kept up-to-date by re-verifying contact details and medical coverage which may change over a short period of time.

Highlights of Our Health Insurance Eligibility Verification:

  • 1) Batch and real-time eligibility and benefits verification
  • 2) Every Practice will have a dedicated team and a team leader.
  • 3) Stringent QA processes
  • 4) Regular reporting
  • 5) Cost savings of 30-40%
  • 6) HIPAA compliance
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