Physician and Hospital Billing-What’s the Difference?
Physician billing, which is also termed Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) billing or professional billing is the billing of claims for services, which were offered or performed by healthcare professionals or a physician that also includes inpatient and outpatient services. In this blog, we will take a quick look at both physician and hospital billing. Majorly, these claims are billed electronically as the 837-P form. Institutional billing deals with claims for procedures or work executed by institutions like nursing facilities, inpatient and outpatient centers, and hospitals. Moreover, these claims need the 837-I electronic version or the UB-04 paper form. Institutional or hospital billing is basically more complicated and needs separate billers as well as coders. As far as physician billing is concerned, the role of billers and coders is merged many times. Nevertheless, when we emphasize medical billing and coding, one should specifically understand that physician billing services an