Leak
Auth requested from the wrong entity
The denial it triggers
Delegated-group denial — plan says "not our member"
How we stop it
We identify the true payer of record before the scan
Radiology billing · Anaheim, CA
Radiology billing services in Anaheim run against one of the most managed-care-heavy payer mixes in the country, where CalOptima and the Medi-Cal plans decide whether an advanced study ever gets paid.
247MBS has billed radiology since 2005: dedicated account manager, free dashboard, HIPAA-compliant, SOC 2 Type II, and fluent in Orange County's Medi-Cal rules and Noridian LCDs.
Anaheim imaging operates inside a dense, high-volume Orange County market — AHMC Anaheim Regional, the Kaiser footprint, and a deep field of freestanding centers all competing for the same referrals. What makes billing here distinct is the payer structure. California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, is delivered largely through managed-care plans, and in Orange County that means CalOptima and its network plans. The authorizing entity for an MRI or CT is frequently a delegated medical group or IPA rather than the plan itself, so the eligibility check has to find the right payer of record before the scan — not the plan name on the card.
For Medicare Part B, California sits under Noridian Healthcare Solutions (JE), and its Local Coverage Determinations set medical necessity. Combine Noridian's edits with Medi-Cal's delegated-authorization maze, and Anaheim radiology rewards a billing team that verifies relentlessly and penalizes one that assumes.
Each Anaheim study is a chain of decisions our team makes before it bills.
| Billing element | How it drives payment in Anaheim |
|---|---|
| Prior authorization | MRI/CT/PET cleared through the plan's or delegated group's radiology-benefit manager first |
| Professional vs technical | Modifier 26 for the read, TC for equipment; global only when one entity owns both |
| Site of service | Hospital-based read splits the claim; office ownership bills global |
| LCD / medical necessity | Diagnosis matched to the covering Noridian JE policy |
| Contrast and supervision | With/without-contrast codes and supervision level tied to the order |
| Modifiers | RT/LT laterality, 59 to unbundle, 76/77 for legitimate repeats |
The workflow is backed by a 99% clean-claim rate, roughly 99% net collections, A/R under 25 days, up to 40% fewer denials, and 90% denial recovery, with 24-hour submission.
Auth requested from the wrong entity
Delegated-group denial — plan says "not our member"
We identify the true payer of record before the scan
No RBM prior auth on advanced imaging
Non-appealable denial
We secure the authorization up front
Wrong or missing 26/TC split
Overpayment recoupment
We match the component to the site of service
LCD / medical-necessity mismatch
Noridian edit denies the study
We match diagnosis to the covering LCD first
NCCI bundling or duplicate reads
Component or second read rejected
We apply 59, 76 and 77 correctly
Your revenue review shows which of these is costing your Anaheim practice the most across its current book.
Revenue review
A certified radiology billing specialist reviews your coding, unit counts, authorizations and aged A/R against the payers you actually bill in Anaheim, CA — and puts a number on what your current process is leaving on the table.
A radiology specialist will reach out within one business day.
A radiology specialist will reach out within one business day.
Practices here outsource radiology billing because the CalOptima and delegated-group authorization map, layered on the 26/TC split and Noridian LCDs, is more than a general billing company can absorb. As a medical billing services company built around imaging, we already carry the delegated-payer logic and the RBM workflows. We run the full cycle:
It all runs inside our radiology revenue cycle practice — one team, one dashboard, a 98% retention rate.
We bill hospital-based radiology groups reading for the Anaheim and Orange County facilities, freestanding imaging and diagnostic centers, outpatient and mobile MRI/CT operators, interventional radiology practices, and teleradiology groups covering Anaheim, Santa Ana, Orange, Fullerton, and the wider county. Own the equipment, only the read, or both — we bill the professional and technical pieces to match.
Get paid the first time in one of California's toughest managed-care markets — 247MBS delivers medical billing for radiology in Anaheim that finds the true payer of record before an advanced study ever runs. In Orange County the authorizing entity for an MRI or CT is often a delegated medical group or IPA under CalOptima rather than the plan on the card, so we verify eligibility to that level, split hospital-based reads for AHMC Anaheim Regional and the wider network to the correct site of service, and match each diagnosis to the covering Noridian JE policy. Since 2005 our imaging clients have seen a 99% clean-claim rate and A/R under 25 days. Request a revenue review.
Start with a revenue review: we'll review your Medi-Cal and delegated-group authorizations, your 26/TC splits, your Noridian LCD matches, and your aging A/R, then show you what professional radiology billing can recover.
Anaheim practices are billed out of the same California desk. Statewide payer detail lives on the California page.
California Radiology billing services — the payer programs, authorities and rules behind every Anaheim claim.
Radiology Billing company — the codes, unit rules and denials nationally, without the local layer.
We find the true payer of record before the study — the plan, the delegated medical group, or the IPA that actually authorizes and pays. Sending an advanced-imaging auth to the wrong entity is a leading Medi-Cal denial in Orange County, and our eligibility step is built to prevent exactly that.
Yes. We set the professional/technical split by site of service — modifier 26 where you only interpret, global where you own the equipment and the read — so neither claim is over- or under-billed.
California's Part B claims run under Noridian JE, whose LCDs govern necessity. We match the ordering diagnosis to the covering policy before the study bills, so it isn't denied on necessity after the read.
From solo practices to multi-provider groups, we bill Radiology for Anaheim practices with a dedicated account manager, certified coders and a live dashboard — so the units, authorizations and appeals that decide your month stop being the thing nobody has time for.
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