Radiology billing · El Paso, TX
Radiology Billing Services in El Paso, Texas
Radiology billing services in El Paso work a market unlike anywhere else in Texas — a far-west border city with a large military footprint, a growing academic medical presence, and one of the highest Medicaid shares in the state, where TRICARE, STAR, and Novitas rules all land on the same imaging schedule. 247MBS has billed radiology since 2005, giving every El Paso account a dedicated account manager, a free live dashboard, and HIPAA-compliant, SOC 2 Type II operations.
Radiology Billing in El Paso for Every Practice
El Paso anchors the far western tip of Texas against the border, and its imaging economy carries three distinct pressures at once. University Medical Center of El Paso runs the county safety net, the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center and its Foster School of Medicine drive academic and teaching volume, and Fort Bliss with William Beaumont Army Medical Center adds a large military and veteran population covered by TRICARE. Around them, Las Palmas Del Sol facilities and freestanding MRI and CT centers serve a community where Medicaid coverage is unusually high.
Each of those payers routes an advanced study differently. Texas delivers most Medicaid through STAR managed care under the Health and Human Services Commission, with claims flowing through TMHP, so a high-Medicaid El Paso book runs against contracted plans and their radiology-benefit managers rather than one fee schedule. TRICARE imaging carries its own authorization and referral rules that a purely civilian book never handles. And for Medicare Part B, El Paso sits under Novitas Solutions (Jurisdiction JH), whose Local Coverage Determinations govern which diagnoses support a scan. Reading across safety-net Medicaid, military TRICARE, and academic Medicare demands billing that switches rule sets without dropping a claim.
How an El Paso radiology claim gets paid
Each study is a chain of billing decisions our team owns from the order to the posted payment.
| Billing element | How it drives payment in El Paso |
|---|---|
| Payer of record | The active STAR plan, TRICARE, commercial carrier, or Medicare resolved before the scan |
| Prior authorization | MRI, CT, and PET cleared through that payer's radiology-benefit manager or referral process |
| Professional vs technical | 26 for the read, TC for the equipment; global only when one entity owns both |
| Site of service | Hospital-based reads split the claim; a center that owns the scanner bills global |
| Medical necessity | Ordering diagnosis matched to the covering Novitas JH policy |
| Modifiers | RT and LT for laterality, 59 to unbundle, 76 and 77 for legitimate repeat reads |
Those decisions ride on numbers that hold at volume: a 99% clean-claim rate, roughly 99% net collections, A/R under 25 days, up to 40% fewer denials, and 90% of denials recovered, with claims filed inside 24 hours.
Where El Paso radiology practices lose revenue
In a border market layered with military and safety-net coverage, the leaks come from mismatched rules:
Your revenue review ranks these by dollars lost across your El Paso sites, so the largest systematic leak is closed 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 El Paso, TX — 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 El Paso practices outsource radiology billing to 247MBS
Groups here outsource radiology billing because a book spanning TRICARE, high-Medicaid STAR, and academic Medicare overwhelms a general billing company that runs one civilian workflow. As a medical billing services company built around imaging, we carry the TRICARE referral path, the STAR RBM routing, and the Novitas coverage map before your first claim goes out — and we apply the right one to each payer. One accountable team runs the professional side of the full cycle:
- Eligibility and payer verification — the exact STAR plan, TRICARE coverage, or commercial payer and its authorization requirement confirmed before the appointment
- Denial management and appeals — worked against the LCD, the plan's RBM record, or the TRICARE rules, not blindly resubmitted
- Insurance credentialing — radiologists paneled across Texas Medicaid plans, TRICARE, and El Paso commercial carriers
- A/R follow-up — aged imaging balances pursued until they clear
All of it lives inside our radiology revenue cycle practice — one dashboard, a 98% client retention rate.
Who we serve in El Paso
We bill for hospital-based and academic radiology groups reading across the county and Texas Tech systems, freestanding MRI and CT centers, outpatient and mobile imaging operators, interventional radiology practices, and teleradiology groups whose radiologists carry multi-state licensure. Our coverage runs across El Paso, Socorro, Horizon City, Fort Bliss, and Canutillo. Own the scanner, only the read, or both — we bill the professional and technical pieces to fit.
Medical Billing for Radiology in El Paso
Medical billing for radiology in El Paso means applying the right rule set to a book that mixes military, safety-net, and academic coverage on one schedule. 247MBS resolves the payer of record first — the active STAR plan, TRICARE for a Fort Bliss patient, a commercial carrier, or Medicare — secures the authorization or referral each demands, and bills the professional and technical pieces to fit the site, whether that is a split read at University Medical Center or a global claim from an owned scanner. Every diagnosis is matched to the covering Novitas JH policy before it files, so border-region groups see up to 40% fewer denials, A/R under 25 days, and roughly 99% net collections. Request a revenue review and we will rank the recoverable dollars first.
Choosing a Radiology Billing Services Provider in El Paso
Let's get your El Paso radiology claims paid faster
Start with a revenue review: we'll review your TRICARE and STAR authorizations, your 26/TC splits, your Novitas coverage matches, and your aging A/R across every El Paso site, then show you what professional radiology billing can recover.
Radiology billing across Texas
El Paso practices are billed out of the same Texas desk. Statewide payer detail lives on the Texas page.
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FAQ
Yes. A large military and veteran population makes TRICARE a real part of the El Paso book, and its referral and authorization rules differ from civilian plans. We bill those studies through the correct TRICARE path rather than treating them like commercial claims.
We verify each patient's active STAR plan before the study and secure its radiology-benefit-manager authorization. In one of the state's highest-Medicaid markets, that pre-scan discipline is where the most revenue is protected.
El Paso Part B runs under Novitas JH, whose LCDs govern necessity. We match the ordering diagnosis to the covering policy before the interpretation bills, so a clean read isn't denied on necessity later.
Yes. Teleradiology practices covering the far-west market often read across state lines, so their radiologists need multi-state licensure reflected correctly in credentialing and on the claim. We keep that licensure and paneling current so a remote read isn't denied on a provider-enrollment technicality.
Ready to get more El Paso claims paid on the first pass?
From solo practices to multi-provider groups, we bill Radiology for El Paso 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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