A Guide to Pharmacy Billing Services
                     A GUIDE TO PHARMACY BILLING SERVICES
A regulatory framework that changes every now and then, 
multiple competition threats, various locations of operations and 
so many more. Pharmacy services are always covered with the 
dark clouds of such challenges and they hinder accuracy in 
billing for pharmacy services. This is detrimental for pharmacy 
companies with a need for improvement in customer relations 
and boosting their top line revenue. The resources might be 
lacking such as requisite expertise, enough technology adoption, 
and a properly operating system affect the entire pharmacy 
services billing process. In this competitive marketplace, 
pharmacy billing services are experiencing some of the unique 
challenges that are required with an industry-specific focus for 
their resolution.
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We have curated this article to give you an idea about how 
pharmacy billing services work for your pharmacy business and 
here are the top 6 things you should know about them…
A Drug Trend report from 2009 predicted that there will be 
continuous price rises in traditional branded and biotech drugs 
that lack generic competition. Unfortunately, this trend proved 
right. Now CMS has reduced its average sales price (ASP) margin to 
4 percent from 6 percent for non-pass-thorough. This is directly 
impactful on pharmacy reimbursement. But there are so many 
other sides of pharmacy billing that may affect it, and thereby, you 
need support from expert pharmacy billing companies in order to 
implement the billing processes simply into your business.
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1. Data Workflow:
Identifying how the revenue cycle and medical billing work in pharmacy 
are very important. Procurement to inventory, billing, and 
reimbursement has medication purchase, their storage, and ways of 
dispensing, how they are administered, the method of their coding and 
billing, and finally reimbursed. If the drug is under a pharmacy benefit, or 
the payer needed it to be gained through a specialty pharmacy as 
recognized through patient-specific benefit verification, then here, both 
the pharmacy and the provider are part of the reimbursement process. 
The clinic or physician creates a prescription and places an order for the 
drug. Further, the pharmacy fills the order and passes the drug to the 
physician, CMHC, or hospital outpatient department. Here, the insurance 
company is charged for the drug. If any information is put incorrectly into 
the pharmacy system in the beginning phase of the cycle, errors may be 
costly, impacting aspects of the clinical and revenue cycle.
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2. Procurement:
In this phase, the information is converted from purchase quantities and pricing to storage units of 
measure (UOM) and inventory prices. In most cases, data is entered manually. UOM conversions, 
when data is stored from the wholesale seller to the pharmacy system, are also verified and checked 
manually. Here, mistakes can lead to a breakdown in the revenue cycle management (RCM) process.
3. The Charge master:
Critical leakage of revenue may lead to more difficulties when separately reimbursable medications 
have either been missed or miscoded in the charge master. Converting pharmaceutical quantities is 
necessary from purchased amounts to patient-administered amounts, and only then it can be 
billable. Usually, there is a difference between amounts of dosage required for patient use as to that 
purchased. Apart from inventory, the physician and pharmacist should convert dosage, strength, and 
delivery technique for each drug. Drug related data should be correctly converted from the quantities 
present in clinical systems into the payer-billable quantities accurate for the financial system or 
charge master. The UOMs should be reimbursed to reduce the chances for any under- or over-
payments. Often or more, inaccurate or missing data in the charge master may result in negative 
financial atmospheres– denied claims, partial reimbursement, and compliance risks.
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4. Connection between Purchases & Billing:
Most physicians and clinics have different processes to order drugs, administer them, and process 
reimbursement. With no connection between pharmacy expenses for medications (i.e., spend data) 
and the charge master, making sure a proper charge capture and proper reimbursement is a struggle. 
Other than this, hospitals should have automation tools to understand charge capture errors 
accurately, so as to point out when and where they occur to reducing revenue loss.
5. Coding:
Appropriate HCPCS codes are required for drug recording, it not done properly, or whose revenue code 
is incorrect in the charge master – this upshift in liability to a patient or a payer leads to the hospital 
not getting proper reimbursement. Sometimes, CMS can’t even return a denial error as an alert to the 
hospital which may cause a result in tens of thousands of dollars in revenue leakage and compliance 
risk.
6. Drug Prices:
Physicians and clinics may get drugs at a higher rate than they are being paid by fixed-fee-based 
payers. Cost-saving chances and generic options may be available but are not fully accessible. Every 
pharmacy should possess a system for regularly comparing drug spending to reimbursement.
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24/7 Medical Billing Services provides customized and 
comprehensive pharmacy billing services to get your pharmacy 
billing management to another level with accuracy. Utilizing our in-
depth understanding of the business processes, 24/7 Medical Billing 
Services can deliver the perfect customizations so as to keep the 
system as close to reality as possible. This is why we are able to 
greatly reduce the struggles of our clients to get used to our system. 
Another reason why our pharmacy billing services are good for 
pharmacy businesses is that they highly reduced operating costs. 
Also, we strictly follow and abide by coding rules and HIPAA 
compliance guidelines. We document drug category reviews and 
perform periodic compliance audits to decrease drug coding errors. 
All these things are required for accurate billing and 
reimbursements
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ABOUT US
• We are a medical billing company that offers ‘24/7 Medical Billing Services’ and 
support physicians, hospitals, medical institutions and group practices with our end to 
end medical billing solutions. We help you earn more revenue with our quick and 
affordable services. Our customized Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) solutions 
allow physicians to attract additional revenue and reduce administrative burden or 
losses.
• Our company was founded in 2005 and is now a leading organization of highly 
motivated and certified coders & billers in the US medical billing industry. Our current 
employee strength is 500+ and we have ambitious plans to grow more rapidly.
• As a leading Medical Billing Outsourcing Company we take care of the complete setup 
& enrolment in about one to four weeks time depending on the complexity of the 
project. We have certified trainers with 10+ years of experience to train the 
newcomers so they can get acquainted with the specialty jargons & stay updated with 
the recent coding developments.
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CONTACT US
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USA
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