Radiology billing · Boulder, CO
Radiology Billing Services in Boulder, Colorado
Radiology billing services in Boulder answer to a distinctly local imaging mix — a university town with heavy musculoskeletal and sports-injury volume, an outpatient-leaning market, and a state Medicaid program routed through regional accountable entities.
247MBS has billed radiology since 2005: a dedicated account manager, a free dashboard, HIPAA-compliant, SOC 2 Type II, and matched to Health First Colorado and Novitas LCDs.
Radiology Billing Services in Boulder for Every Practice
Boulder doesn't bill like a Denver suburb. Anchored by Boulder Community Health and the imaging that serves CU Boulder, its practices skew outpatient and musculoskeletal — a steady stream of MRIs for knees, shoulders, and spines from an active, injury-prone population, plus the CT and PET volume any regional market carries. That outpatient tilt puts the professional/technical split front and center: an office that owns its scanner and its read bills global, while a group interpreting for a facility it doesn't own must bill the read with modifier 26.
Colorado routes Medicaid through a regional model. Health First Colorado (the state's Medicaid program) delivers care through the Accountable Care Collaborative, with Regional Accountable Entities (RAEs) coordinating members by geography. For Medicare Part B, Colorado sits under Novitas Solutions (JH), whose Local Coverage Determinations decide which diagnoses make a study medically necessary. A read billed to the wrong RAE, or without a diagnosis that satisfies the Novitas LCD, will not pay on the interpretation alone.
How radiology claims get paid
Every Boulder study is a chain of billing decisions our team owns from order to remittance.
| Billing element | How it drives payment in Boulder |
|---|---|
| Professional vs technical | Modifier 26 for the read, TC for equipment; global only when one entity owns both |
| Site of service | Office ownership bills global; hospital-based read splits the claim |
| Prior authorization | MRI/CT/PET cleared through the plan's radiology-benefit manager before the scan |
| LCD / medical necessity | Diagnosis matched to the covering Novitas JH 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 repeat reads |
Behind those decisions sit the numbers that matter: a 99% clean-claim rate, roughly 99% net collections, under-25-day A/R, up to 40% fewer denials, and 90% of denials recovered on appeal, with claims out the door inside 24 hours.
Where Boulder radiology practices lose revenue
For an outpatient-heavy market, the leaks cluster around authorization and the component split:
Your revenue review ranks these by dollars lost across your Boulder sites, so the biggest leak gets fixed first.
Revenue review
Put a dollar figure on what your radiology claims are leaving behind.
A certified radiology billing specialist reviews your coding, unit counts, authorizations and aged A/R against the payers you actually bill in Boulder, CO — and puts a number on what your current process is leaving on the table.
- Professional and technical components billed to the right entity per site
- Advanced-imaging authorization confirmed before the study is read
- Contrast, laterality and comparison-study modifiers checked per payer
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Why Boulder practices outsource radiology billing to 247MBS
Imaging groups here outsource radiology billing because a general billing company treats an MRI claim like an office visit — and in an outpatient market driven by advanced imaging, the authorization and component decisions are where the money is won or lost. As a medical billing services company built specifically around imaging, we carry the RBM workflows, the RAE-routing checks, and the 26/TC logic before your first claim goes out. We run the full cycle:
- Eligibility and payer verification — the responsible Health First Colorado RAE or commercial plan and its auth requirement confirmed pre-scan
- Denial management and appeals — worked against the LCD and RBM policy, not just resubmitted
- Insurance credentialing — radiologists paneled across Colorado Medicaid and commercial carriers
- A/R follow-up — aged imaging balances pursued until they clear
All of it lives inside our radiology revenue cycle practice — one accountable team and a free dashboard, backed by a 98% retention rate.
Who we serve in Boulder
We bill freestanding MRI and CT centers, outpatient and musculoskeletal imaging practices, hospital-based radiology groups reading for the Boulder Valley systems, interventional radiology practices, and teleradiology groups covering Boulder County — from Longmont and Louisville to Lafayette, Superior, and the foothills communities. Whether you own the scanner, only the read, or both, we bill the professional and technical pieces to match.
Medical Billing for Radiology in Boulder
Boulder imaging practices collect faster when medical billing for radiology in Boulder is built around advanced-imaging authorization and the outpatient component split. 247MBS secures the radiology-benefit-manager clearance before an MRI, CT, or PET runs, bills global where a practice owns both scanner and read, and applies the read-only component where a group interprets for a facility it doesn't own — then routes each Health First Colorado claim to the responsible Regional Accountable Entity. Musculoskeletal and sports-injury groups serving Boulder Community Health and the CU Boulder population lean on that discipline to hold a 99% clean-claim rate and A/R under 25 days. Request a revenue review and see what your unappealable MRI denials are really costing.
Choosing a Radiology Billing Services Provider in Boulder
Let's get your Boulder radiology claims paid faster
Start with a revenue review: we'll review your advanced-imaging authorizations, your 26/TC splits, your Health First Colorado routing, and your aging A/R, then show you what professional radiology billing can recover.
Radiology billing across Colorado
Boulder practices are billed out of the same Colorado desk. Statewide payer detail lives on the Colorado page.
Radiology billing services in Colorado — the payer programs, authorities and rules behind every Boulder claim.
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FAQ
By treating advanced-imaging prior authorization as a gate. Before an MRI, CT, or PET runs, we confirm the ordering diagnosis, secure the radiology-benefit-manager authorization, and verify the plan — because those denials are usually unappealable once the study is done.
We identify the member's Regional Accountable Entity at eligibility so the claim routes to the entity responsible for that patient, rather than being denied for going to the wrong region.
Yes. Colorado's Medicare Part B claims run under Novitas JH, and its Local Coverage Determinations govern medical necessity. We check the diagnosis against the covering policy up front.
Ready to get more Boulder claims paid on the first pass?
From solo practices to multi-provider groups, we bill Radiology for Boulder 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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