Emergency Room Billing and Coding Services

ER billing is chaotic with high patient volume, complex coding, and relentless denials, slash your revenue. At Steady Medical Billing, we specialize in emergency room revenue cycle management, ensuring accurate coding, faster reimbursements, and fewer claim rejections. Let us handle the billing chaos so you can focus on saving lives.

The Hidden Costs of ER Billing & How to Avoid Them

Emergency rooms face relentless billing hurdles high patient volumes, complex coding rules, and aggressive payer scrutiny slash revenue by 12-20% (AHIMA). Missed charges, undercoding, and denied claims drain resources while administrative burdens pull staff away from patient care.

Sky-High Denial Rates (Up to 30% for ER claims)
Undercoded Critical Care (Lost $500+ per patient)
Trauma Coding Errors (Severity levels = audits)
Payer Rule Whiplash (Medicare/Medicaid shifts = rejections)
Aging Claims Gridlock *(90+ days = 50% less recovery)*

The Cost? A major health system’s ER lost $2.8M/year in unbilled critical care alone. But Steady Medical Billing flips the script:

Maximize ER Revenue. Minimize Denials.

Stop losing revenue to denials, undercoding, and compliance risks. At Steady Medical Billing, we specialize in ER-specific medical billing and coding, helping emergency rooms like yours boost collections by 30%+ and slash denials by 40%.

Here’s what you get with us:

Our Emergency Department Billing Excellence

Steady Medical Billing specializes in ER-specific revenue cycle management, ensuring accurate claims, faster reimbursements, and fewer denials so you can focus on patient care.

ER-Specific Charge Capture

We ensure no billable service is missed, from critical care and intubation to trauma activation fees. Our real-time charge review catches underreported procedures before claims are submitted.

High-Acuity Coding Accuracy

Level 4 and 5 E/M visits, critical care time, and procedural coding are meticulously validated to prevent underbilling and compliance risks. We maximize reimbursement while staying audit-proof.

Denial Prevention & Appeals

Our pre-submission claim scrubbing cuts denials by 40%+. If a claim is denied, our ER-trained team aggressively appeals with clinical and coding evidence.

24/7 Compliance Monitoring

We stay ahead of changing ER billing regulations (e.g., Medicare’s Two-Midnight Rule, EMTALA) to prevent costly penalties and takebacks.

ER Revenue Analytics

We provide monthly performance reports showing denial trends, underpayment recovery, and revenue opportunities so you can see exactly where to improve.

Payer-Specific Claim Optimization

Each insurer (Medicare, Medicaid, commercial payers) has different ER billing rules. We tailor claims to payer requirements, reducing rejections and speeding up approvals.

Revenue Recovery & Payer Optimization for Emergency Departments

Even the most efficient ERs lose 12-20% of potential revenue to underpayments, denials, and credentialing gaps. At Steady Medical Billing, we don’t just process claims; we audit, fight, and recover every dollar your emergency department deserves.

How We Protect Your Revenue:

Denial rework & appeals: Fix, refile, win
Underpayment recovery: Audit, dispute, collect
Payer credentialing: Enroll, update, optimize
QC audits: Prevent errors pre-submission
Faulty claim investigation: Trace, correct, resubmit

We go beyond basic billing. Our team scrubs every claim against payer policies, challenges underpayments with clinical evidence, and ensures your providers are credentialed with major regional insurers.

Nationwide Emergency Room Billing Mastery: Expertise Across All ER Specialties & States

Emergency medicine isn’t one-size-fits-all, nor is billing. Steady Medical Billing delivers specialized revenue cycle solutions for every ER type, from trauma centers to pediatric emergency departments, serving healthcare providers across all 50 states. Whether you’re an independent ER group, a hospital-owned department, or a large healthcare system, we speak your language and know your payers.

We Serve Major Healthcare Providers Including:

Our ER Billing Expertise Covers:

Trauma Centers (Level I-IV)

Whether it’s a Level I trauma center handling high-acuity cases or a Level IV facility managing stabilization transfers, we ensure accurate CPT coding (e.g., S9088 for trauma response) and defend against payer downcoding.

Pediatric Emergency Departments

Pediatric ERs face unique challenges from neonatal resuscitation coding to Medicaid’s nuanced rules. We optimize age-specific E/M levels (e.g., 99285 for severe pediatric asthma) and secure reimbursements for vaccines, child abuse exams, and state-funded programs.

Freestanding ERs & Urgent Care Hybrids

Facility vs. professional billing confusion? We clarify it. We ensure proper place-of-service coding, split-fee billing compliance, and defend against payer reclassifications that slash revenue, critical for hybrid models.

Toxicology & Overdose Cases

Substance abuse emergencies demand high-complexity coding (e.g., G0483 for drug screens). We capture extended care time, naloxone administration, and comorbid mental health diagnoses to maximize reimbursements.

Rural & Critical Access ERs

We navigate Medicare-dependent reimbursement (e.g., Critical Access Hospital billing rules), telehealth modifiers, and low-volume payer contracts to keep rural ERs financially viable.

Mental Health Providers

Resident billing compliance made simple. We align with CMS’s “teaching physician” rules, ensure proper supervision documentation, and prevent costly academic center audit traps.

Maximize Your Emergency Department Revenue - Starting Now!

At Steady Medical Billing, we recover 15-30% more revenue for emergency departments just like yours.

Reduction in Denials

Speed up Payments

Denial Accuracy

Why Choose Us

Why Leading Emergency Departments Choose Steady Medical Billing?

When every claim matters and every dollar counts, ER groups trust us to protect their revenue. Here’s what sets us apart from generic billing companies:

ER-Only
Specialists

Our team is made up of certified emergency medicine coders and billers, not generalists. We speak fluent “ER” and know every nuance of trauma, critical care, and high-acuity coding.

Proactive Denial Prevention

We don’t just react to denials; we proactively stop 92% before they happen with AI-powered claim scrubbing and real-time payer rule updates tailored specifically to emergency medicine.

Revenue Recovery Focus

While others simply process claims, we actively hunt for underpayments, recovering an average of $22,000/month for clients through meticulous payment audits and appeals.

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End ER Billing Chaos & Boost Your Revenue

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Emergency Room Billing and Coding Services