Radiology Medical Billing Services

Specialized billing for radiology practices and imaging centers — diagnostic imaging coding, interventional procedures, and TC/PC billing. Serving practices nationwide across the United States.

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98%
Clean Claims Rate
All
Payers Accepted
<30
Avg. AR Days
100%
HIPAA Compliant

What We Handle

Comprehensive billing coverage for your specialty

Diagnostic Imaging Billing

Accurate coding for X-rays, CT scans, MRI, ultrasound, PET scans, mammography, and all diagnostic imaging modalities.

Interventional Radiology

Billing for IR procedures including biopsies, drain placements, embolizations, angioplasty, and image-guided procedures.

TC/PC Split Billing

Proper splitting of technical component and professional component billing for radiologist and facility claims.

Denial Management

Radiology denials for medical necessity and duplicate studies are appealed quickly with clinical justification.

High Volume Processing

Radiology practices generate hundreds of claims daily. Our systems process high volumes accurately and quickly.

Revenue Analytics

Modality-level financial reporting showing collections, denial rates, and payer performance for your imaging center.

Common Codes We Handle

71046 – Chest X-Ray70553 – MRI Brain w/ Contrast74177 – CT Abdomen/Pelvis76700 – Abdominal Ultrasound77067 – Screening Mammogram78816 – PET Scan19083 – Breast Biopsy36247 – Angiography75572 – CT Coronary77263 – Radiation Planning

What's Included

  • All imaging modality coding
  • TC & PC component billing
  • Interventional radiology coding
  • High-volume claim processing
  • Medical necessity documentation
  • Denial appeals & resubmission
  • Modality-level reporting
  • RADV audit support

Why Choose Us

  • 98% clean claims rate
  • Specialty-trained billing team
  • No long-term contracts
  • Free 1-week trial
  • Dedicated account manager
  • Works with your existing EHR
  • Full credentialing support
  • Monthly performance reports

Radiology Billing: Components, Volume, and Clean Data

Radiology is billing at industrial scale: hundreds of studies a day, each a small claim, with profitability decided by capture rates and denial percentages rather than any single case. The structural quirk is the professional/technical split — who owns the equipment versus who reads the study — and the operational reality is that radiology denials are overwhelmingly data problems, not clinical ones.

Professional, Technical, and Global: Getting the Split Right

Every imaging study has a technical component (the equipment, the tech, the images — modifier TC) and a professional component (the interpretation — modifier 26). Bill global only when your entity owns both. Hospital-based radiologists bill 26 on everything; imaging centers bill global; mixed arrangements vary by site and contract. Misconfigured component billing either double-bills (audit risk) or half-bills (silent revenue loss), and it's the first structural audit we run for radiology clients.

Ordering-Provider Data: Radiology's Denial Epidemic

Radiology claims die on referring data: missing or invalid ordering provider NPIs, orders that don't support the study performed, and Medicare's requirement that the ordering provider be enrolled. These surface as CO-16 denials at volumes that overwhelm manual rework. We scrub ordering data against the PECOS enrollment file before submission — one edit that removes an entire denial category.

Prior Authorization and Medical Necessity for Advanced Imaging

MRI, CT, PET, and nuclear studies sit behind prior authorization at nearly every commercial payer, and behind local coverage determinations at Medicare — where the diagnosis on the order must support the study. The imaging center often eats the denial for an auth the ordering office was supposed to obtain: verifying auth at scheduling, not discovery at denial, is the fix. Our CO-197 playbook covers recovery when it happens anyway.

Contrast, Multiple Procedures, and Coding Precision

With-and-without contrast studies, contrast material billing, 3D rendering add-ons, and multiple-procedure payment reductions across same-session studies all demand coding from the actual report — not the order. A CT ordered without contrast but performed with it bills what was performed and documented. At radiology volume, small systematic coding gaps compound: one missed add-on code across 40 daily studies is a serious annual number.

Interventional Radiology: A Different Animal

IR bills like surgery — procedure codes with bundled imaging guidance, supervision-and-interpretation rules, and NCCI edits dense enough to need specialist coders. Vascular access, embolizations, ablations, and drainages each carry their own bundling logic. Groups mixing diagnostic and interventional work need both competencies in their billing operation, because IR coded by diagnostic habits underbills dramatically.

Frequently Asked Questions

When do we bill modifier 26 versus TC versus global?
Bill 26 when you provide only the interpretation, TC when you provide only equipment and technologists, global when one entity owns both sides. The decision is structural — per site, per arrangement — not per study. Hospital-based reads are 26; freestanding centers with employed radiologists bill global; anything mixed needs a site-by-site configuration audit.
Why do our claims keep denying for ordering provider information?
Three usual causes: the referring NPI is missing or mistyped, the named provider isn't enrolled in Medicare (a PECOS requirement for orders), or the order on file doesn't match the study billed. All three are preventable with front-end scrubbing against enrollment data — radiology's highest-ROI billing edit.
Who is responsible when an MRI denies for missing prior authorization?
Contractually, the rendering facility usually absorbs the denial even when the ordering office dropped the ball — which is why auth verification belongs at scheduling. Recovery options exist (retro-auth for urgent studies, appeals with clinical documentation), but the durable fix is refusing to assume someone else obtained the auth.
Do you handle interventional radiology coding?
Yes — IR is procedural coding with dense bundling rules, and it's where generalist billing leaves the most radiology money behind. Our coders work IR from the procedure report with NCCI edits applied, and diagnostic volume runs through its own high-throughput workflow. The two streams report separately so you see each one's economics.
How do you handle TC vs PC billing?
We bill the professional component (26 modifier) for the radiologist interpretation and the technical component (TC modifier) for the facility. We ensure proper separation to maximize reimbursement.
Can you handle teleradiology billing?
Yes. We handle billing for teleradiology services including proper place of service coding and licensing requirements across multiple states.

Related Billing Specialties

The referring specialties behind most imaging volume, where professional and technical splits have to line up.

Oncology & Hematology Billing

Diagnostic imaging and radiation oncology attach to every cancer episode, each coded separately.

Orthopedic Billing

Musculoskeletal imaging is high volume, and in-office equipment changes who owns the technical component.

Cardiology Billing

Nuclear cardiology and cardiac CT need clean professional/technical splitting to avoid duplicate denials.

Neurology Billing

Neuroimaging carries the heaviest prior-authorization burden of any imaging category.

OB/GYN Billing

Obstetric ultrasound has its own coding family, frequency limits and documentation standards.

We bill all of these in house. If your group spans several of them, multi-specialty billing keeps one team across every line — or see the full list of services.

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