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MSMS Members Receive Expert Help From MSMS’s Reimbursement Advocate
Did you know that you have access to help with payer issues through the MSMS Reimbursement Advocate, Stacie J. Saylor, CPB, CPC, just for being a member of the Michigan State Medical Society?
Stacie has over 30 years of medical billing background that has been instrumental in helping MSMS members fight erroneous denials of payment, resolve provider enrollment issues, advocate for policy change with health plans, assist billers with proper coding and help get claims “unstuck” in the system and reimbursed, to name a few.
As the MSMS Reimbursement Advocate for 22 years, Stacie has invaluable relationships with health plan representatives, experience navigating varied inquiries, and a passion for advocating for timely and accurate payment for physicians. One example is the need to continuously push back on health plans that automatically down code office visit levels of care and automatically request medical documentation when certain modifiers are appended to claims. This is an unfair administrative burden to practices that often results in reimbursement delays.
When your practices has exhausted the health plan resources available to you and the issue has not been resolved to your satisfaction, contact Stacie through email, ssaylor@msms.org or by calling 517-336-5722, to see how she can assist you. Health plans do manage inquiries from MSMS as a priority, understanding that the practice has already taken appropriate steps to resolve the issue through the health plan, with unsatisfactory results.
The MSMS Reimbursement Advocate is a highly valued benefit available exclusively to members of the Michigan State Medical Society (MSMS). If you are not currently a member and would like to learn more about the advantages of MSMS membership, including this and many other resources designed to support physicians and their practices, we invite you to contact the MSMS Membership Department at membership@msms.org or 517-336-5721. Our team would be pleased to assist you in becoming a member of our network of dedicated physicians.