{"id":47,"date":"2014-06-10T19:20:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T19:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costrecoveryfacts.com\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2016-12-06T19:36:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T19:36:12","slug":"insurance-carriers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/costrecoveryfacts.com\/?page_id=47","title":{"rendered":"Billing Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What Are 3rd Party Cost Recovery Billing Companies?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fire departments often hire an outside company to handle cost recovery billing.\u00a0They do so for a variety of reasons but primarily because of billing companies\u2019\u00a0expertise in filing and collecting insurance claims. This takes a huge\u00a0administrative burden off fire departments, freeing them to do what they are\u00a0committed to \u2013 emergency response.<\/p>\n<p>Typically the billing company keeps a small percentage of insurance\u00a0reimbursements as compensation. Thus, billing companies only get paid when\u00a0costs are recovered for the fire departments.<\/p>\n<p>Fire departments make the final decision on whose insurance gets invoiced, not\u00a0the billing company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Are 3rd Party Cost Recovery Billing Companies? Fire departments often hire an outside company to handle cost recovery billing.\u00a0They do so for a variety of reasons but primarily because of billing companies\u2019\u00a0expertise in filing and collecting insurance claims. This takes a huge\u00a0administrative burden off fire departments, freeing them to do what they are\u00a0committed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/costrecoveryfacts.com\/?page_id=47\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Billing Companies<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/costrecoveryfacts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/costrecoveryfacts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/costrecoveryfacts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/costrecoveryfacts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/costrecoveryfacts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/costrecoveryfacts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/costrecoveryfacts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/costrecoveryfacts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}