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Quick Overview: Our Provider Matching Service
What It Is
A free matching service that connects New York medical practices with vetted medical billing companies experienced in New York payer mix, National Government Services (NGS) Medicare rules under Jurisdiction K, and New York State Medicaid billing.
What's Included
Full-service medical billing, medical coding, AR recovery, denial management, payment posting, patient statements, and revenue cycle management reporting through our matched partner network.
Typical Result
New York practices get matched in roughly 30 minutes. Partner billing rates start at 6%, with partner network clean claim rates reported around 98% and average days in AR under 35.
How to Get Started
Submit a free quote request, share a few details about your practice and specialty, and we hand-match you with billing partners who know New York.
What's Included
Medical billing in New York is one of the most complex billing environments in the country, and the gap between what a generalist billing company recovers and what a specialist partner recovers is measurably wider here than in most states. New York State Medicaid is one of the largest state Medicaid programs in the country by total spending and is delivered through a multi-plan managed care structure with dozens of active MCOs across different regions. The commercial market features Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, Emblem Health, Aetna, Cigna, United, and Oxford Health Plans — each with distinct authorization processes and coverage rules. National Government Services (NGS) serves as the Medicare Administrative Contractor for Jurisdiction K. Billing practices across New York City, Long Island, Westchester, and upstate regions face different payer mixes requiring region-specific expertise.
Billing Service Quotes connects New York practices with billing partners that handle the full revenue cycle so your team can focus on patients instead of payers. Through our matched partner network, a New York engagement typically includes:
- Patient demographic and insurance verification, including NY State Medicaid managed care plan confirmation and Empire BCBS plan identification
- ICD-10-CM and CPT/HCPCS coding with specialty-specific modifier review
- Charge entry, claim scrubbing, and electronic claim submission
- Primary, secondary, and tertiary claim filing
- Real-time payer rejection handling and clearinghouse follow-up
- Denial management and appeals, including NGS Medicare and NY Medicaid MCO appeals
- Payment posting (ERA and manual) with line-item reconciliation
- AR follow-up and aged-bucket recovery work
- Patient statements, payment plans, and collections handoff
- Coding audits and modifier compliance review aligned to NGS Local Coverage Determinations
- Monthly performance reporting with KPI dashboards
- HIPAA-compliant data handling and secure document exchange
What Sets Us Apart
What Our Matched Partner Handles
- Eligibility verification and benefits checks
- ICD-10/CPT/HCPCS coding and modifier review
- Claim submission and scrubbing
- Denial management and appeals
- Payment posting and reconciliation
- AR recovery and aged-bucket work-down
- Patient billing and statements
- Reporting and KPI dashboards
What Your Practice Provides
- Patient demographics and insurance cards
- Provider documentation and encounter notes
- Fee schedule and payer contract details
- Signed BAA and HIPAA authorization
- EFT/ERA enrollment cooperation
- Timely chart and clarification responses
- Practice management or EHR access
- Monthly review meeting attendance
In-House Staff vs. Specialist Billing Partner
| Capability | In-House Billing Staff | Specialist New York Billing Partner |
|---|---|---|
| NGS Medicare expertise | Varies, depends on hire | Daily volume across NGS Jurisdiction K claims |
| NY State Medicaid managed care knowledge | Often limited | Built-in across NY Medicaid MCO rules |
| Coverage during PTO, sick days, staff turnover | Stops when staff stops | Continuous, team-based coverage |
| Coding compliance and audits | Limited bandwidth | Certified coders on staff |
| Technology cost (clearinghouse, scrubber, reporting) | Paid by practice | Included in partner rate |
| Scaling with new providers | Requires new hires | Scales by contract |
| Total fully-loaded cost | Salary + benefits, software, training | Percentage of collections, often 6%+ |
Our Process
We do not throw your practice into a database and call it a match. Our process is built around a real human review on every New York request, which is the differentiator our team is most protective of.
Submit Request
Short intake about your practice.
Human Match
Real review of your fit.
Intros & Quotes
Custom partner quotes.
Compare
Diligence & decide.
Check-Ins
Optional follow-up support.
Submit Your Request
You complete a short intake describing your specialty, practice size, EHR, payer mix, and current billing pain points. A team member at Billing Service Quotes reviews it personally.
Human Match Review
Our team narrows the partner pool to billing companies with verified New York experience, including NGS Medicare, New York State Medicaid, and your specialty. We vet for fit, not just availability.
Partner Introductions and Quotes
We introduce you to a short list of matched partners. You receive customized quotes that reflect your collection volume, specialty, and service scope. Quotes typically arrive in roughly 30 minutes for the initial connection, with detailed proposals to follow.
Compare, Diligence, and Decide
You compare side by side, ask questions, and request references. We stay available to clarify quote terms, contract language, and what is and is not included. You make the final decision on your timeline.
Optional Check-Ins
After you select a partner and onboard, you can come back to us any time you have questions about the relationship. Our team is reachable when you need a second opinion.
What We Need From You
Completed intake form • Current monthly collections range • Current EHR or PM system • Short summary of billing pain points • Point of contact for partner introductions.
Our Medical Billing Partners
Medical billing in New York is uniquely demanding. The state runs one of the largest and most fragmented Medicaid managed care programs in the country, a fiercely competitive multi-carrier commercial market, and Medicare administered by NGS. Practices across New York City, Long Island, Westchester, and upstate face different regional payer mixes — and a billing partner without active New York-specific experience in the relevant region will leave revenue on the table every month.
New York Medicare and National Government Services (Jurisdiction K)
National Government Services (NGS) is the Medicare Administrative Contractor for Jurisdiction K, which covers New York, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. NGS publishes Local Coverage Determinations (LCDs) and coverage articles that govern medical necessity documentation across every specialty.
- LCDs for cardiology, oncology, behavioral health, and diagnostic imaging require specific ICD-10 indications with supporting clinical documentation.
- NGS has detailed documentation rules for E/M visits under current AMA guidelines, particularly for complex encounters, teaching physician scenarios, and split or shared visits common in New York City's academic practice settings.
- Modifier 25 and modifier 59 use is reviewed closely; incorrect application is a common denial driver across Jurisdiction K.
- PECOS enrollment status must be current for any provider billing Medicare. Lapses cause immediate denials.
New York State Medicaid and Managed Care
New York State Medicaid is administered by the Department of Health and delivered through a large and regionally fragmented managed care structure. Major MCOs include Emblem Health, HealthFirst, MetroPlus Health Plan, Fidelis Care, Affinity by Molina, and numerous regional plans. Each plan has its own:
- Provider portal and claim submission rules
- Authorization requirements for specialty services
- Timely filing limits (typically 90 to 180 days, plan-specific)
- Appeals process and reconsideration timelines
Common New York-specific issue: providers enrolled with the DOH fee-for-service system but not separately credentialed with the managed care plan covering their patient, causing systematic claim rejections. A specialist billing partner verifies plan-level enrollment before claims go out.
Common New York-Specific Coding and Modifier Issues
- Multi-carrier commercial complexity: New York City's commercial market includes Empire BCBS, Emblem Health, Aetna, Cigna, Oxford, and United — each with different authorization workflows, coverage policies, and appeal processes. A billing partner must maintain active knowledge across all major carriers to protect clean claim rates.
- NY Medicaid MCO fragmentation: New York State Medicaid delivers managed care through dozens of regional MCOs. The active MCO roster for a given practice depends on geography. A billing partner must track enrollment and authorization requirements for every plan active in the practice's service area.
- NYC academic and teaching practice billing: New York City's academic medical centers generate complex billing scenarios including teaching physician modifiers, split or shared visits, and resident supervision billing that require specialist coding knowledge to apply correctly under NGS LCD rules.
- Short timely filing windows: Several New York Medicaid managed care plans have timely filing limits of 90 days — significantly shorter than the national norm. Aged AR recoveries and resubmissions require urgent prioritization, which in-house teams frequently miss during high-volume periods.
💰 Why This Matters for Your Bottom Line
A New York practice with average annual collections of $1.2M can lose $60,000 to $120,000 a year in preventable denials and underpayments when its billing partner does not actively work NGS and NY Medicaid rules. The right partner pays for itself in a single quarter.
Our Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) Partners
For most New York practices, billing is just one piece of a larger revenue cycle. The bigger leverage is in the systems behind it: clean coding, disciplined AR recovery, and reporting that catches revenue leaks before they compound. The matched partners in our network handle the full RCM stack so your revenue does not depend on a single staff person remembering to follow up.
Medical Coding
Coding is where claims either flow or stall. A specialist billing partner brings certified coders (CPC, CCS, CRC, or specialty equivalents) who handle:
- ICD-10-CM diagnostic coding aligned with NGS Local Coverage Determinations
- CPT and HCPCS Level II procedure coding by specialty
- Modifier review (25, 59, 76, 95, GT, and others), with attention to teaching physician and split/shared scenarios common in New York academic settings
- E/M leveling under current AMA guidelines, including teaching physician and split or shared visit rules
- Specialty-specific code sets for cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, behavioral health, and physical therapy
- Coding audits at intake and on an ongoing rotation
Most practices that bring coding in-house find it works at small volume but starts to break down past a few thousand encounters per month. A specialist partner scales without a ceiling and absorbs payer rule changes (CMS quarterly updates, NGS LCD revisions, NY DOH Medicaid policy bulletins) without practice involvement.
Accounts Receivable Recovery
AR recovery is the most underrated revenue lever in the cycle. Every aged claim has a clock, and once a claim ages past 90 days the probability of full collection drops sharply. New York’s short timely filing windows on several Medicaid MCOs make this higher stakes than in most other states.
A matched partner runs structured AR work on a weekly cadence:
- Aged AR analysis by payer and bucket (0–30, 31–60, 61–90, 91–120, 121+)
- Targeted work on 90+ day claims before timely filing windows close
- Appeal authoring for denied or underpaid claims with payer-specific documentation
- Underpayment recovery against contracted fee schedules
- Patient-responsibility follow-up and statement cycles
- Write-off review, with practice approval before any adjustment
Recovering even a small percentage of aged AR usually covers the partner’s fee for the year. For practices switching billing partners, the legacy AR work-down is the single most important transition step to plan around.
Full-Cycle RCM Reporting
You cannot fix what you cannot see. Matched partners deliver monthly KPI dashboards covering:
- Days in AR (target: under 35 for most specialties)
- Net collection rate (target: 95% or higher)
- Clean claim rate (top performers around 98%)
- Denial rate by payer and reason code
- Payer-mix performance, with NGS and NY Medicaid MCO plan breakouts
- First-pass resolution rate
These dashboards turn the revenue cycle from a black box into a managed process. Practices that review the reports monthly catch payer trends early and protect against silent reimbursement erosion.
Meet Tim Daniels
Our matching technology is fast, but it is not the reason New York practices come back to us. The reason is that there is a real person reviewing every New York request before any partner introduction goes out.
Tim Daniels
Director of Provider Engagement
Tim leads provider engagement at Billing Service Quotes and personally reviews New York matches across the partner network. With more than 15 years of combined industry experience behind the team, his focus is on making sure each practice ends up with a billing partner that actually fits the specialty, size, and payer mix of the practice, not just the first available vendor on a list.
"Our goal is to bring the 'human' back to the revenue cycle. While our technology is world-class, our success is driven by the personal relationships we build with every provider."
— Tim Daniels, Director of Provider Engagement
Want to speak with Tim directly? Call (844) 863-5233 Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST.
Who We Help
New York’s healthcare landscape spans one of the world’s most complex urban medical markets in New York City to academic medical centers in Buffalo, Rochester, and Albany, and independent practices serving communities across Long Island, the Hudson Valley, and upstate. We match across practice types, but the segments below see the most consistent fit.
Solo Practitioners
Independent New York physicians and allied providers running lean operations. We focus on partners that are responsive at small-volume scale and handle NGS Medicare and NY State Medicaid plan billing without learning curves.
Group Practices (2–25)
Multi-provider groups in New York City, Long Island, Westchester, and beyond that have outgrown DIY billing. Best fit with partners offering strong reporting and a dedicated account manager experienced in the full New York commercial and Medicaid payer landscape.
Ambulatory Surgery Centers
New York ASCs face specific HCPCS Level II coding, revenue code, and implant invoicing requirements alongside NY Medicaid MCO authorization requirements. We match with partners experienced in ASC-specific reimbursement in New York’s demanding payer market.
New & Expanding Practices
Practices opening a new New York location or adding new providers need a billing partner ready on day one. We prioritize partners that can stand up the full revenue cycle quickly, including multi-carrier credentialing, NY Medicaid enrollment, and reporting cadence from the first week of operations.
High-Volume Specialty Practices
Cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, behavioral health, and physical therapy practices carry high claim volumes across New York and face denial patterns tied to NGS LCDs and multi-carrier authorization requirements. We match with partners that have certified coders in the specific specialty and active NGS LCD monitoring.
Coverage Areas
Billing Service Quotes operates virtually and is HIPAA-compliant across all engagements, which means matched partners can serve any New York zip code without a local office. Our team works with practices from New York City and Long Island to Buffalo, Rochester, and communities across upstate New York.
- New York City
- Buffalo
- Rochester
- Yonkers
- Syracuse
- Albany
- New Rochelle
- Mount Vernon
- Schenectady
- Utica
- White Plains
- Hempstead
- Brookhaven
- Islip
- Oyster Bay
- North Hempstead
City-level pages are not yet live for New York. As they launch, this section will link directly to each. We also serve practices in all 50 U.S. states.
Related Services Our Billing Partners Offer
Below are the supporting services our matched partner network covers, all available to New York practices.
Medical Coding
Certified coders review encounters for ICD-10-CM and CPT accuracy across New York specialties, with attention to NGS LCD compliance and multi-carrier medical necessity standards.
Revenue Cycle Management
Full-cycle RCM covering eligibility, charge capture, claim submission, denial management, AR recovery, and KPI reporting for New York practices.
AR Recovery
Aged-bucket work-downs targeting 90+, 120+, and 150+ day New York claims that in-house teams have not had time to chase — with urgent prioritization for plans with short timely filing windows.
Denial Management
Root-cause denial analysis and appeal authoring for NGS Medicare, NY State Medicaid MCOs, Empire BCBS, Emblem Health, and commercial payers.
Eligibility & Benefits Verification
Pre-service eligibility checks and benefits verification across NY Medicaid MCOs, Medicare, Empire BCBS, Emblem Health, and commercial payers to prevent front-end denials.
Patient Billing & Statements
Patient-friendly statements, online payment options, and New York-compliant patient communication.
Why Choose Us
Billing Service Quotes was founded to do one thing well: connect New York medical practices with the right billing partner without charging the provider a cent. We are not a billing company ourselves and we are upfront about that. We are a matching platform with 15+ years of combined industry experience behind the team, focused entirely on getting the match right.
Free for Providers
Our matching service is 100% free to New York healthcare providers. No hidden fees, no commitment to use a partner we recommend, and no charge for the time our team spends reviewing your request.
Human-Led Matching
Every New York match is reviewed by a real person on our team. Submissions are not auto-routed to whoever pays us most. This is the part of our service we are most protective of.
A Vetted Network
Our partner network includes billing companies experienced across New York payers. Partners report HIPAA compliance and many hold SOC2 certifications.
Equity in Access
Whether you are a solo practitioner in Utica or a high-volume multi-specialty group in Manhattan, you get the same matching attention. We do not steer toward larger practices or bigger contracts.
🗽 Why New York Practices Choose Us
New York has one of the most complex billing environments in the country, with a fragmented multi-MCO Medicaid structure, a competitive multi-carrier commercial market, short timely filing windows, and NGS Medicare documentation requirements. Practices that match through us walk into the partner relationship already aware of these realities and what reasonable New York-specific KPIs look like.
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