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Billing & Credentialing — MedCoShare Services
Services Billing & Credentialing

Get paid for the work you've already done.

Full-cycle billing and payer credentialing for independent practices — clean claim submission, aggressive denial management, aged A/R recovery, and the credentialing infrastructure that keeps revenue flowing in the first place.

Figure 01 — A/R Aging
Accounts Receivable
Current Period
0–30 Days
68%
31–60 Days
19%
61–90 Days
8%
91–120 Days
3%
120+ Days
2%
Days in A/R
28
Our Position
The revenue a practice writes off quietly is larger than the revenue it celebrates publicly. Denials, underpayments, stalled credentialing — a thousand small leaks that add up to margin the provider never sees, and a working capital problem no one talks about at the staff meeting.
Two disciplines, one engagement
i.
Billing & Revenue Cycle

Coding accuracy, clean claim submission, denial management, payment posting, and aged A/R recovery — run as a continuous operational program.

ii.
Payer Credentialing

Initial enrollment, re-credentialing, CAQH maintenance, and ongoing payer relationship management — so every provider in your practice is able to bill, on time.

28d
Target Days in A/R
95%
Clean Claim Rate
90d
Typical Credentialing Timeline
100%
Independent Practice Focus

What clean billing actually buys you.

Every practice loses revenue it shouldn't — in the gap between service delivered and cash in the door. These are the categories of return a disciplined billing and credentialing program is designed to produce.

i.

Higher collection ratios

Close the gap between what the practice is owed and what it actually collects — measured as collections against billed, not as a vague monthly number.

ii.

Shorter days in A/R

Cash arrives faster. Aged receivables shrink. Working capital stops being the thing that keeps you up at night before payroll runs.

iii.

Fewer silent denials

Every denial gets worked — appealed when winnable, documented when not. Denials stop being the line item quietly written off at month-end.

iv.

Credentialing that doesn't bottleneck

New providers are enrolled and billable on schedule. Re-credentialing deadlines don't sneak up. CAQH stays current.

v.

Coding that holds up

Codes are accurate and defensible — capturing the work you actually did without exposing the practice to the audit risk that over-coding creates.

vi.

Reporting you can use

Monthly visibility into collection rate, A/R aging, denial rate, and payer mix — so financial decisions are made with data rather than instinct.

Our billing and credentialing practice areas.

Two connected disciplines, each with its own scope of work. We operate them together because credentialing gaps cause billing gaps — but we'll scope the engagement to one side if that's where your practice needs leverage first.

i.Billing & Revenue Cycle
Four areas
01

Claim Submission & Coding

Charge Capture CPT / ICD-10 Clean Claims

Every encounter is reviewed for coding accuracy and submitted clean on the first pass — because the cheapest denial is the one that never happens. Claims scrubbing, charge capture, and specialty-specific coding handled end-to-end.

02

Denial Management & Appeals

Denial Workflow Appeals Root-Cause Analysis

Every denial gets worked, not just tracked. We appeal what's winnable, document what isn't, and feed the patterns back into coding and front-office workflow so denials stop recurring in the same categories month after month.

03

Payment Posting & Reconciliation

ERA / EOB Posting Accuracy Reconciliation

Payments posted accurately and reconciled against expected reimbursement — so underpayments are caught rather than accepted, and write-offs are deliberate rather than accidental.

04

Aged A/R Recovery

A/R Cleanup Legacy Claims Collections Strategy

The claims sitting at 90+ and 120+ days aren't gone — they're often recoverable with the right follow-up. We work aged A/R aggressively to pull cash back into the practice that would otherwise be written off.

ii.Payer Credentialing
Three areas
05

Initial Payer Enrollment

Commercial Medicare Medicaid

Enroll new providers with every payer your practice bills — commercial, Medicare, Medicaid, and specialty plans. Applications prepared, submitted, and followed through until the effective date is in hand.

06

Re-Credentialing & Renewals

Re-credentialing CAQH License Tracking

Re-credentialing deadlines tracked and managed before they become billing interruptions. CAQH profiles maintained, license renewals monitored, and payer rosters kept continuously current.

07

Payer Contracting & Rates

Fee Schedules Contract Review Rate Negotiation

Review existing payer contracts, benchmark your fee schedules against reasonable reimbursement, and support negotiations where rates are measurably below market — so you're not the lowest-paid practice on every panel by default.

How the engagement unfolds.

Billing engagements begin with the honest question no billing company wants to answer: how much revenue is the practice actually leaving on the table? We run a three-phase engagement designed to measure that, recover it, and prevent it recurring.

01
Phase One — Weeks 1–4

Audit and baseline.

We audit your current billing performance, aged A/R, denial patterns, and credentialing status — producing a candid baseline of where revenue is leaking and what's recoverable.

  • Full billing and coding audit
  • Aged A/R analysis and recovery estimate
  • Denial pattern and root-cause review
  • Credentialing and CAQH status audit
  • Prioritized remediation plan
02
Phase Two — Months 2–4

Remediation and recovery.

The highest-impact problems first — aged A/R cleanup, denial remediation, coding gaps, and any credentialing issues blocking revenue. Cash starts arriving that was previously stuck.

  • Aged A/R cleanup and recovery
  • Denial remediation and appeals backlog
  • Coding and charge capture remediation
  • Credentialing gap closure
  • Clean-claim workflow implementation
03
Phase Three — Ongoing

Ongoing revenue cycle operations.

Once baseline is restored, we shift into continuous management — daily billing operations, proactive credentialing, and monthly KPI reporting so you always know where the practice stands financially.

  • Daily billing and claim operations
  • Continuous denial management
  • Proactive credentialing and renewals
  • Monthly financial reporting
  • Quarterly payer and contract review

Why practices engage us to run the revenue cycle.

Most billing companies are volume businesses — measured on claims submitted, not revenue recovered. We operate differently, and the incentives show up in the numbers.

i.Scope

Billing and credentialing, integrated.

Credentialing gaps cause billing gaps. We run both functions under a single team, so enrollment problems don't quietly become write-offs three months later.

ii.Measurement

Measured on recovery, not volume.

The meaningful metrics are collection ratio, days in A/R, and denial rate — not how many claims got submitted this week. That's how we report, and that's how we're judged.

iii.Focus

Independent practices, exclusively.

Hospital systems have in-house RCM teams. Our playbook is built for the economics and payer mix of an independent practice — which is a different engagement entirely.

iv.Continuity

Continuous, not transactional.

Billing isn't a project. Denials don't stop arriving. Credentialing doesn't resolve itself. Our engagements are built for ongoing operation — same team, month over month.

Who our billing and credentialing work is for.

From new practices establishing payer relationships for the first time to established groups cleaning up years of accumulated A/R — we work across specialties and stages.

New Practices Launching
Practices Onboarding Providers
Primary Care Physicians
Specialists
Direct Primary Care
Dermatologists
Mental Health Providers
Medical Spas
Wellness Clinics
Multi-Location Groups

Frequently asked.

The questions practice owners most often ask before engaging us on billing and credentialing.

Yes. The two disciplines are connected but separately scoped — many engagements begin in one and expand into the other. If your practice only needs credentialing support (for example, onboarding a new provider), we scope the engagement accordingly. If billing is the priority, we'll focus there.
It depends heavily on the age and specialty, but practices that haven't worked aged A/R systematically often recover meaningful sums from claims sitting in 90+ and 120+ day buckets. The diagnostic phase produces a candid estimate specific to your situation — we don't promise a number until we've looked at the data.
Most commercial credentialing runs 60 to 120 days from submission to effective date, depending on the payer. Medicare typically runs 60 to 90 days. Medicaid varies significantly by state. We track each application actively and work to prevent the delays that come from missing documentation or slow payer responses.
Most billing companies are paid on claims submitted — so their operational incentive is volume, not recovery. We're measured on collection ratio, days in A/R, and denial rate, which means every denial gets worked, every underpayment gets caught, and aged A/R isn't something we let accumulate. Credentialing is part of the same team, not a separate vendor you have to coordinate.

Stop writing off the revenue you've already earned.

Schedule a consultation to learn how disciplined billing and credentialing can tighten your collection ratio, shorten your A/R, and keep every provider in your practice billable.