Dipak Nandi: issues in the DME billing process

The DME billing industry with its ever changing regulatory compliances and the mounting expense is making it extremely challenging for healthcare practices especially today due to the present day crisis to maintain a successful healthcare practice. As straying up to date with the shifting DME billing landscape is a significant challenge itself. In fact, most of the healthcare practices end up with shrinking collections, billing and coding errors for being unaware of the billing regulation. Furthermore, today with the rising demand of the DME requirement among people especially with the aged population, many problems are also seen rising starting from training new hires for DME billing functions, the introduction of various new codes continuously, past permissible reimbursement level and many more.

While in-house DME billers and coders are often seen largely stuck with various administrative and clinical works; delaying the overall process of the DME billing reimbursement. The continuously rising cost of DME biller’s wages is another matter of concern for many healthcare practices.

However, all these can be resolve in no time, if you outsource your DME billing; as today outsourcing is one of the convenient and cost-effective solutions for many healthcare practices to have a better seamless DME billing operation with a better reimbursement rate.

In fact, according to a recent report of the outsourcing market of DME the Global durable medical equipment (DME) market is anticipated to reach USD 246.6 billion by 2026.

Taking care of all your pre and post billing responsibilities, outsourcing aids in reducing your DME billing issues also take care of operational cost reduction, ensures faster collection rate and also resolve your claims submission issues and aging account receivable at the same time so that you can focus more on patient care management.

Dipak Nandi,M.D, recipient of several entrepreneurial awards and a proud member of the prestigious AIIMS alumni and a board certified psychiatrist, who is also a pioneer in the field of healthcare outsourcing and telehealth solutions stated, outsourcing your DME billing is one of the best alternatives for a better billing management process.