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Practical guidance for practice owners, administrators and revenue cycle teams. Each published guide emphasizes clear workflows, primary sources, update dates and actions your team can take—without promising reimbursement outcomes.

Published guides

Start with these cornerstone articles

Denial management, enrollment clarity, A/R interpretation, eligibility, timely filing, modifiers, CAQH maintenance and specialty denial prevention—built for decision-makers researching outsourcing partners.

Denial Management

Denial Management Playbook: Tracking Root Causes Fast

Learn how to track denial root causes quickly with a proven denial management playbook. MB Claims shares practical strategies to reduce claim denials fast.

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Credentialing

Medicare and Medicaid Re-Validation: Avoiding Credentialing Gaps

Learn how Medicare and Medicaid re-validation works and discover practical strategies to avoid costly credentialing gaps that disrupt your revenue cycle.

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Provider Enrollment

Commercial Payer Enrollment Steps for New Provider Panels

Learn the essential commercial payer enrollment steps for new provider panels. MB Claims guides practices through credentialing and RCM setup.

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Credentialing

CAQH Profile Management Tips That Prevent Enrollment Delays

Discover practical CAQH profile management tips that prevent enrollment delays. Learn how proper credentialing practices streamline revenue cycle managemen

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Credentialing

Medical Credentialing Timeline: What Practices Should Expect

Understand the medical credentialing timeline for your practice. MB Claims breaks down each phase, typical delays, and how to prepare for a smoother proces

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Medical Billing

Proactive Claim Scrubbing Before Clearinghouse Submission

Learn how proactive claim scrubbing before clearinghouse submission reduces denials, accelerates reimbursement, and improves clean claims rates for your pr

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Medical Coding

ICD-10 and CPT Coding Accuracy Checklist for Cleaner Claims

Use our ICD-10 and CPT coding accuracy checklist to reduce denials and submit cleaner claims. Practical steps to improve medical billing accuracy.

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Medical Billing

How End-to-End Medical Billing Improves First-Pass Claim Acceptance

Discover how end-to-end medical billing streamlines revenue cycle management and boosts first-pass claim acceptance rates for healthcare practices.

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Revenue Cycle

Clean Claim Rate Basics: The Essential Smoke Test for RCM Performance | MB Claims

Learn how to calculate and benchmark your clean claim rate—the fundamental smoke test that reveals billing efficiency and revenue cycle health.

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Medical Billing

How to reduce claim denials

How to reduce claim denials

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Denial Management

A Practical Guide to Medical Billing Denials

Categorize medical claim denials, prioritize recoverable balances, prevent repeat failures, and build an accountable denial workflow.

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Credentialing

Provider Enrollment vs. Credentialing

Understand credentialing, payer enrollment, contracting, and directory maintenance—and why each needs separate tracking.

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Revenue Cycle

How to Read an A/R Aging Report

Review medical A/R aging by payer, claim status, balance, filing deadline, and next action—not only bucket totals.

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Medical Billing

Eligibility Verification Checklist

A practical eligibility checklist for medical practices: what to verify, when to re-check, and how to prevent denials.

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Denial Management

Timely Filing Limits by Payer Type

Track timely filing by Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial payer type so denial teams protect recoverable balances.

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Medical Billing

Modifier 25 and 59 Pitfalls

Avoid common modifier 25 and 59 outpatient billing pitfalls with documentation checks, NCCI awareness, and denial review.

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Credentialing

CAQH Re-Attestation Guide

Keep CAQH profiles attestation-ready: documents, deadlines, common stalls, and how CAQH differs from payer enrollment.

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Credentialing

Medicare vs Medicaid Enrollment Paths

Compare Medicare PECOS and state Medicaid enrollment paths, including why managed-care contracting stays separate.

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Medical Billing

Medical Billing Company Pricing Explained

Educational overview of medical billing company pricing models and ranges—without fake guarantees or invented quotes.

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Revenue Cycle

Medical Billing vs RCM

Compare medical billing and revenue cycle management so practices choose the right scope for ownership and reporting needs.

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Denial Management

Behavioral Health Denial Prevention

Prevent behavioral health denials tied to telehealth POS, session limits, carve-outs, documentation, and enrollment lag.

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About MB Claims

What Is MB Claims?

MB Claims is a US medical billing and RCM company—not an auto insurance bureau. Services, contact, and how we differ from similarly named organizations.

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Behavioral Health

Psychiatry vs Therapy Billing

Separate psychiatry and therapy billing workflows: E/M vs psychotherapy, same-day combinations, rendering providers, and common denial traps.

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Behavioral Health

Behavioral Health Telehealth Billing

Align telehealth place of service, modifiers, and payer policy with documented behavioral health encounters to prevent denials.

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Credentialing

LCSW, LPC, LMFT Credentialing

Credential and enroll LCSW, LPC, and LMFT clinicians: CAQH, payer panels, Medicaid pathways, and roster timing before first claims.

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Denial Management

BH Carve-Out Routing Checklist

Stop wrong-payer behavioral health denials with an eligibility checklist for carve-out vendors, plan IDs, and claim routing.

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Behavioral Health

Collaborative Care Billing Basics

Operational basics for Collaborative Care Model billing: team roles, documentation, monthly billing readiness, and common denial traps.

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Denial Management

Mental Health Parity Appeals Workflow

A practical parity appeal workflow for behavioral health denials: categorize remits, gather evidence, choose corrected claim vs appeal, and track deadlines.

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Behavioral Health

BH CPT Documentation Pitfalls

Avoid common behavioral health CPT and documentation pitfalls: time support, E/M plus psychotherapy, add-on misuse, and denial feedback loops.

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Denial Management

PHP/IOP Authorization Denials

Reduce PHP and IOP authorization denials with intake checks, concurrent review tracking, documentation readiness, and denial categorization.

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Medical Billing

Choosing a BH Billing Company

Evaluate behavioral health billing companies on specialty depth, auth tracking, carve-outs, enrollment, reporting, and honest scope—not fake collection guarantees.

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Medical Billing

Outsourced vs In-House Billing

Compare outsourced and in-house medical billing using ownership, specialty complexity, denial capacity, enrollment coverage, and reporting—not slogans.

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Revenue Cycle

Clean Claim Rate vs Net Collections

Understand why clean claim rate and net collections measure different things—and which operational KPIs practices should track instead of vanity metrics.

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Medical Billing

Billing Vendor Onboarding Checklist

A practical onboarding checklist for medical billing vendors: access, ownership maps, payer mix, specialty rules, denial inventory, and reporting cadence.

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Urgent Care

Urgent Care Charge Capture Checklist

An urgent care charge capture checklist for same-day procedures, eligibility timing, E/M plus procedure pitfalls, and denial prevention.

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EHR Billing

Epic Medical Billing Support

How MB Claims supports medical billing inside Epic workflows without rip-and-replace—access, charge review, denials, and reporting ownership.

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EHR Billing

eClinicalWorks Billing Support

Practical eClinicalWorks billing support guidance: charge entry, scrubbing, denial follow-up, and ownership maps without replacing your EHR.

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Free A/R audit

Find the revenue cycle gaps holding back your practice

We will review aging, denial patterns, payer enrollment gaps and billing workflow concerns, then outline practical next steps for your team.