What is medical billing software?

Medical billing software helps healthcare practices manage claims, verify insurance, track payments, and reduce denials. It streamlines the entire revenue cycle, from patient eligibility checks to claim submission and payment collection.

What's the difference between in-house billing and outsourced billing services?

In-house billing is handled by staff within the practice using billing software. Outsourced billing is managed by a third-party service that submits and tracks claims on the practice's behalf, often charging a percentage of collections.

How does insurance eligibility checking work in medical billing software?

Eligibility tools verify a patient's insurance coverage in real time before services are provided. The software checks key data like active status, copays, and deductible amounts to reduce claim rejections and speed up billing workflows.

What causes claim denials and how can software prevent them?

Common denial reasons include missing codes, incorrect patient data, or expired insurance. Billing software prevents denials by flagging errors before submission and applying payer-specific rules to ensure cleaner claims.

How does EHR-integrated billing improve efficiency?

EHR-integrated billing eliminates double entry by linking clinical data to billing codes. Charges can be automatically generated from visit notes, reducing errors and improving the speed and accuracy of claim submissions.

What do billing companies need in a billing platform?

Billing companies need tools for multi-practice management, batch claim processing, denial analytics, and client reporting. A flexible, scalable platform with automation and performance insights is critical for efficiency and growth.

How can billing software support faster patient payments?

Billing software supports faster payments with features like online bill pay, automated reminders, card-on-file, and text or email invoices. It also helps reduce confusion by offering clear, easy-to-understand patient statements.

How much does medical billing software cost? What do billing companies charge?

Medical billing software may cost $100–$500+ per provider monthly. Billing companies typically charge 4–9% of collected revenue. Pricing depends on services included, such as claim management, patient billing, or eligibility checks.

Tebra
Billing & Payments
Billing software for billing companies

Scalable growth for your business and the practices you serve

We give billing companies the tools to systematize workflows and create efficiencies that bring speed to payment, scalable growth, and maximized revenue — for you and your clients. Intelligent automation and data insights enable you to develop tailored services unique to the needs of every independent practice.

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Better profits drive better practice health

Everything your practices need, in one place

Practices can acquire new patients with powerful marketing automation, deliver better care with a cloud-based certified EHR, provide an exceptional patient experience with automated patient and provider communication tools, and get paid faster with billing and payments solutions.

Automated end-to-end workflows

Intelligent automation streamlines billing workflows, freeing up staff to spend more time on work that improves the success of your business.

Deeper business insights that promote growth

Access robust revenue and clinical reporting tools for billing companies and medical group billing departments and equip your practices with the critical insights to understand key revenue indicators, or dive deeper into granular data that affect the bottom line.

Deliver financial well-being for you and your clients

Optimize billing operations

Frictionless billing operations allow you to optimize workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and go paperless in the process.

Streamline revenue collection

Improve and simplify payment collection to reduce pain points for office staff and patients alike.

Simplify insurance operations

Efficiently manage insurance eligibility for patients, as well as claims. Eliminate uncollectible revenue due to invalid or insufficient insurance benefits.

Drive growth with data and insights

Reduce operating costs and make more informed business decisions with Tebra data and insights solutions that include practice growth and revenue analytics, HIPAA-compliant data cloud storage, and APIs that can integrate with third-party applications.

Deliver financial well-being for you and your clients

Frictionless billing operations allow you to optimize workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and go paperless in the process.

Improve and simplify payment collection to reduce pain points for office staff and patients alike.

Efficiently manage insurance eligibility for patients, as well as claims. Eliminate uncollectible revenue due to invalid or insufficient insurance benefits.

Providers and patients have spoken

1,600+

medical billing companies trust Tebra

$20B+

in claims processed each year

50K+

providers work with a billing company using Tebra

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Streamlined workflows for every billing need

Financial strength leads to practice strength

With Tebra’s medical billing solutions, you can enroll, submit, track, and reconcile claims, all from one platform. Reporting and analytics give you complete visibility into your financial health, while communication tools and payment methods ensure you collect more, faster.

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Insurance eligibility

Reduce claim denials and manage patient payment responsibility efficiently with electronic checks to verify and approve eligibility before patients arrive for their appointments.

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Claims management

Send electronic claims to thousands of government payers and commercial insurance companies. Print paper claims, and receive claim processing status updates and reports, all while improving claims accuracy and reducing denials.

Patient statements

Automate your revenue cycle management by utilizing rules-based intelligent automation to eliminate the repetitive tasks that take up valuable time.

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Patient payments

Reach patients the right way, at the right time, with automated patient billing, text, email, and mailed statements to ease the burden of collection on both sides.

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Robotic process automation

Automate your revenue cycle management by utilizing rules-based intelligent automation to eliminate the repetitive tasks that take up valuable time.

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Cloud analytics

Access Tebra’s secure, powerful, HIPAA-compliant data cloud on demand. Easily export and organize raw data into unique datasets to generate custom reports, allowing you and your clients to explore trends, develop forecasts, and deliver critical insights to boost business performance.

Billing partner program

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When you join Tebra, you are automatically added to the billing partner program. We provide you with customized pricing options, marketing and sales enablement resources, as well as an enhanced support team to help grow your business.

We are invested in your success and don't compete with our partners. We exited medical billing services so we could focus on providing best-in-class software to our partners.

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