Medicare Part B Billing Services for Skilled Nursing Facilities
Burst Billing provides Medicare Part B supplies reimbursement for skilled nursing facilities. That core reimbursement service is supported by retroactive SNF revenue recovery, ongoing skilled nursing facility billing operations, Medicare audit defense, and a contingency billing model. Claims are billed under your facility's NPI, so Medicare pays your facility directly.
Core Medicare Part B Billing Service
One service defines the engagement. Everything else on this page exists to support it.
Medicare Part B Supplies Reimbursement
When a resident is not in a covered Part A stay, eligible supplies (surgical dressings, ostomy, urological, and tracheostomy) can be billed to Medicare Part B by the facility itself. Most SNFs never capture that revenue because an outside supplier bills as the provider and keeps the reimbursement. Burst Billing bills those supplies under your facility's NPI, using your PointClickCare records, with a documentation packet behind every claim.
Supporting Billing Services
These three capabilities wrap around the core service. They are not separate products: they cover what happened before you started, the day-to-day claim work while you run, and what happens if a payer reviews a claim.
SNF Revenue Recovery
A retroactive review of Part B supply claims your facility could have billed but did not. Where the timely-filing window still allows it, eligible claims are rebuilt from the resident record and submitted under your NPI.
SNF revenue recoverySkilled Nursing Facility Billing
The ongoing operational work behind the core service: eligibility checks, coding, claim submission, payment posting, denial follow-up, and appeals, run alongside your existing business office.
Skilled nursing facility billingMedicare Audit Defense for SNFs
Every claim we submit ships with a documentation packet: physician order, certification, clinical notes, and proof of delivery. If a claim we billed is reviewed, our team assembles and submits the response.
Medicare audit defenseHow Burst’s Billing Model Works
The section below is not a fifth service. It describes how the engagement above is priced and structured.
Risk-Free Billing Model
Burst Billing works on a contingency billing model: no setup fee, no monthly minimum, no software licence. Our fee is a share of what Medicare actually pays your facility, month-to-month, cancel anytime. Fee percentages are agreed in writing before any claim is submitted.
Who These Billing Services Are For
Burst works with skilled nursing facilities in the United States that bill Medicare directly under their own NPI. The engagement fits three situations most often.
Long-term-care and dually certified SNFs
Buildings with a meaningful census of residents outside a covered Part A stay, where surgical dressing, ostomy, urological, and tracheostomy supplies are being consumed daily and billed by an outside supplier — or not billed at all.
Multi-facility operators and regional groups
Groups standardizing Part B supply capture across buildings that each handle it differently today. Each facility keeps its own NPI, enrollment, and payer relationships; the process and documentation standard are the same across the portfolio.
Facilities with a stretched business office
Buildings where the business office is already absorbed by Part A, Medicaid, and managed care, and has no capacity to build, submit, and appeal a separate Part B supply claim line without adding headcount.
What a Part B Billing Engagement Includes
The same four stages apply whether you start with retroactive recovery or with ongoing billing. Nothing is submitted until eligibility and documentation are confirmed.
- Step 01
Reimbursement assessment
A 30-minute review of your census mix, supply usage, current supplier arrangement, and enrollment status, ending in a written, itemized estimate of the Part B supply revenue your facility is not capturing today.
- Step 02
Eligibility and records review
Resident-level verification of Part A versus Part B status by date of service, plus a review of physician orders, certifications, and supply documentation already in your system.
- Step 03
Claim build and submission
Eligible items are coded, units are reconciled against documented usage, and claims are submitted under your facility's NPI to your A/B MAC — each with a documentation packet retained behind it.
- Step 04
Posting, denials, and appeals
Remittance is posted, denials are worked to root cause rather than rebilled blindly, and appeals are filed where the record supports them. Reporting shows what was billed, what paid, and what remains open.
Coverage rules, covered supply categories, and payment amounts are set by Medicare and administered by your A/B MAC, and they change. Burst reviews policy updates quarterly and bills only what the resident record and current policy support.
Medicare Part B Billing Services: Frequently Asked Questions
What Medicare Part B billing services does Burst provide to skilled nursing facilities?
Burst's core service is Medicare Part B supplies reimbursement: billing eligible surgical dressings, ostomy, urological, and tracheostomy supplies under your facility's NPI for residents who are not in a covered Part A stay. That core service is supported by retroactive revenue recovery on claims inside the timely-filing window, ongoing skilled nursing facility billing operations, and audit defense on any claim we submitted.
Who bills the claim, Burst or the facility?
Claims are submitted under your facility's own NPI, so your facility is the billing provider of record and Medicare pays your facility directly. Burst never becomes the supplier and never takes assignment of the reimbursement.
Which residents are eligible for Part B supply billing?
Part B supply billing generally applies to residents who are not in a Medicare-covered Part A stay, including long-term-care residents and residents who have exhausted their Part A benefit days. Eligibility is verified per resident and per date of service before any claim is built.
Do these services replace our current business office or billing company?
No. Burst runs alongside your existing business office and your existing Part A or triple-check process. The Part B supply line is typically a revenue stream nobody in the building is billing today, so there is no overlap with your current biller's scope.
How does Burst work with PointClickCare?
Where a facility uses PointClickCare, Burst works from the resident records already documented there — physician orders, treatment administration records, and supply usage — to identify billable items and assemble the documentation packet behind each claim. Burst is not affiliated with or endorsed by PointClickCare.
What does the service cost?
Burst works on a contingency model: no setup fee, no monthly minimum, and no software licence. The fee is an agreed percentage of what Medicare actually pays your facility, agreed in writing before any claim is submitted, month-to-month and cancellable at any time.
How long does it take to start seeing reimbursement?
Onboarding typically involves a records review, eligibility verification, and enrollment confirmation before the first claim batch is submitted. Payment timing after submission follows standard Medicare claim processing for your A/B MAC jurisdiction rather than any timeline Burst controls.
What happens if a claim Burst submitted is audited?
Every claim ships with a documentation packet: the physician order, certification, supporting clinical notes, and proof of delivery. If a claim we billed is selected for review, our team assembles and submits the response on your behalf as part of the engagement.
What SNF operators say about working with Burst
“Before using Burst Billing, we partnered with a medical supply company who would bill Part B plans as the provider and keep the revenue for themselves. Burst Billing not only met but exceeded our expectations and truly opened our eyes to the benefits of a revenue share model. From the transparency and confidence of their leadership to the expertise of their billers, working with Burst Billing has been an overwhelmingly positive experience. They've helped us recover revenue we would otherwise have left on the table.”
“All SNF operators should use Burst to collect on their Part B supplies. They work hard and efficiently to recover revenue that is left on the table, easy to work with, responsive, and a trusted long-term partner.”
“As a COO, I rely on partners who bring clarity, consistency, and real operational impact. Burst Medical is responsive, knowledgeable, and genuinely invested in driving results for our centers.”
Medicare Part B Billing Resources
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Read articleTalk With Burst Billing
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