Billing & Audit Tips and Resources

Billing & Audit Tips and Resources

Billing the Medical Services Plan (MSP) for your services is a complex process. The following are some helpful billing and audit resources stemming from the most common errors revealed during on-site audits:

Tips

A regular column on Billing Tips appears in the BC Medical Journal, and provides information on the most common billing errors discovered during practice reviews and audits.

Resources

• The Doctors of BC Fee Guide is updated regularly, and lists the services insured by MSP as well as provides recommended private fees for Non-MSP insured services. For information on how to interpret insured services, please refer to the guide’s preamble.

• The Family Practice Services Committee’s billing guide includes incentive payments available to BC’s eligible family physicians.

• The Specialist Services Committee fees are processed through the Medical Services Plan; however, they are managed by the SSC.

• The MSP Tutor has been developed by government to help you and your office staff so they understand how to correctly bill claims for medical services to MSP, plus it includes a number of tutorials that contain important information for billing specific services to MSP.

• The Reference Committee assists physicians in MSP billing disputes and is the last step in the appeal process.