Apricot-
Your method is very similar to our practice. We export our bills on a regular basis and FTP them to the billing company. We are putting the hospital patients in the system for now for tracking purposes. We also use a lockbox to accept the payments so they are automatically deposited in our checking account. All check copies, EOB's and correspondence are copied by the bank into their system and then forwarded to us via regular mail. We scan and FTP to billing company.
One question: How do you handle encounters signed after your billing submission date but were seen prior to the date? We have a few of these when my doc gets behind and I have to go back, export the previous month, and manually separate the unsubmitted encounters in MSExcel. This is really the only time consuming part of the process.
