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Specialty billing

Hematology and Oncology Billing Where Every Unit Counts

Infusion hierarchy, high-cost drug claims and wastage documentation where a single error is worth thousands.

Laboratory analysis supporting hematology and oncology treatment
1 unit of a high-cost biologic mis-keyed can exceed the value of an entire clinic day

The challenge

What makes hematology billing different

Hematology and oncology carry the highest per-claim financial exposure in outpatient medicine. A single infusion encounter can involve a drug costing more than a month of a primary care practice collections, and the difference between a paid claim and a denied one often comes down to unit calculation or a wastage modifier.

The administration coding is equally unforgiving. Infusion services follow a strict hierarchy of initial, sequential and concurrent services, and sequencing them incorrectly on a multi-drug day reduces payment on work that was fully delivered and fully documented.

Why us

Why hematology and oncology practices work with us

Specialty billing is not a marketing label for us. Coders and A/R staff are assigned by specialty, so the person on your account reads notes like yours every day.

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  • Drug units calculated against the billing unit definition, not the vial size
  • Wastage documented and modified correctly rather than silently absorbed
  • Infusion hierarchy applied correctly on multi-drug and multi-hour days
  • Prior authorization obtained before the drug is ordered, not after it is given

Scope of work

What we handle for hematology practices

The work below is specific to this specialty, not a generic billing checklist with the name swapped out.

Drug and biologic claims

HCPCS drug coding with unit calculations checked against the billing unit rather than the vial.

Infusion administration hierarchy

Initial, sequential, concurrent and hydration services sequenced correctly for the documented times.

Wastage documentation

Discarded drug billed with the correct modifier and the documentation an audit will require.

Prior authorization management

Regimen-level authorization secured before administration, and tracked across cycle changes.

Buy-and-bill reconciliation

Acquisition cost reconciled against reimbursement so margin erosion is visible immediately.

Treatment plan alignment

Claims checked against the documented regimen so cycle changes do not create orphan charges.

The Right Way difference

What we watch on hematology claims

These are the details that separate a paid claim from an appealed one in hematology. They are checked on every claim, not sampled.

  • 01 Billing unit definitions, which frequently differ from the vial or package size the practice purchases
  • 02 Wastage modifier requirements, now mandatory reporting for single-dose containers on many drugs
  • 03 Start and stop times in the infusion record, which determine the administration codes entirely
  • 04 Authorization validity across a treatment cycle, including regimen or dose changes mid-course
  • 05 Payer-specific site-of-care policies that can redirect where a drug may be administered

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Questions

Hematology billing questions

What practices in this specialty ask us most often before making a change.

Ask us something else

Every drug claim is checked against the HCPCS billing unit definition rather than the package size, and high-value claims get a second review before release. On this specialty the cost of a second look is trivial next to the cost of a mis-keyed unit.

How it works

Getting started takes about a month

The same four steps whichever specialty you are in. No system migration and no gap in your cash flow.

  1. 01

    Revenue assessment

    We audit a sample of your claims, denials and aged A/R and show you what we found. Free, and yours to keep either way.

  2. 02

    Scope and agreement

    A written scope covering exactly which services we run, what it costs and what we are accountable for.

  3. 03

    Access and onboarding

    We set up inside your existing EHR and clearinghouse. Two to four weeks, run in parallel with your current process.

  4. 04

    Live and reporting

    We take over submission and follow-up, and you get monthly reporting you can actually act on.

Free consultation

Let us look at your hematology claims

Send us a sample and we will tell you specifically what is being coded, denied or under-paid — and what it is worth to fix. Free, and yours to keep.