Medical Billing Outsourcing Market Size & Share Analysis - Growth Trends & Forecasts (2024 - 2029)

Medical Billing Outsourcing Market Analysis

The Global Medical Billing Outsourcing Market size is estimated at USD 15.41 billion in 2024, and is expected to reach USD 26.40 billion by 2029, growing at a CAGR of 11.36% during the forecast period (2024-2029).

The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to have a largely positive impact on market growth. Technology is one of the major differentiators in today's healthcare systems, including localized healthcare systems that existed earlier. The digital development accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to significantly positively impact the market studied. This pandemic situation has firmly established the need for active action and the establishment of a robust, collaborative, scalable, and agile digital healthcare infrastructure. As a result, many companies are now building up a new roadmap, such as adopting digitization and outsourcing non-core aspects of their businesses, like billing and accounts, which is expected to augment the market growth. During this period, a sudden shift toward digital billing was observed, which is further expected to drive market growth. Additionally, consumer interest has increased significantly towards online bill payments since the pandemic began, leading to greater demand for medical billing outsourcing as it forms a non-core business operation for most healthcare institutes.

According to a Healthcare Payments Insight Survey Report conducted by Elavon in January 2020, consumers who used different emerging payment methods showed high satisfaction rates in settling their medical bills. 93% of the people who were surveyed said that they had used Interactive Voice Response (IVR) to pay a bill and were somewhat or very likely to use it again. 85% of the people who paid via kiosk networks called the process fast and easy, and 88% were somewhat or very likely to use it again. A profound impact on the market was observed as well. Electronic Health Record systems have been designed for tracking and billing patients versus providing optimal care, which is the need of the hour due to the rising number of COVID-19 patients. The ongoing pandemic is putting healthcare systems under strain worldwide and forcing hospitals and other medical facilities to scramble to ensure that their billing data can be processed and stored effectively. The 'digital front door' is key to how providers should respond to the COVID-19 situation regarding access, triage, and even treatment. With the surge in demand for hospital capacity, one of the challenges faced by hospital IT staffers is figuring out how to quickly deploy billing and revenue management systems to alternative care locations. Thus, many of these functions are being outsourced, which is leading to market growth.

The medical billing outsourcing market is primarily driven by factors, such as the growing emphasis on compliance and risk management by regulators, the increasing need to make the medical billing process efficient, and efforts to decrease in-house processing costs.

Unless a medical practitioner or an office is using the services of an experienced billing provider, there is a high chance that their revenue will not be as high as it was meant to be, creating an increasing need to make the process of billing more efficient. Skilled professionals are required for the process. Efficiency in the billing process can further reduce the company's cost and get maximum benefits for practitioners. Rising patient load in the hospitals and increasing the burden of medical processes, such as records of patient check-in and insurance eligibility, are creating a huge issue in the point of care delivery. There is a need to manage such records. For the sake of improvisation of the medical billing process, medical billing outsourcing is done to help assist the clinicians in managing patient and billings records. Hence, the rising need for efficient medical billing is positively influencing the market.

Medical Billing Outsourcing Market Trends

This section covers the major market trends shaping the Medical Billing Outsourcing Market according to our research experts:

Hospital Outsourced Medical Billing is Expected to Grow at a Good Rate Over the Forecast Period

Medical Billing Outsourcing Industry Segmentation

As per the scope of the report, medical billing outsourcing service entails the hiring of a medical billing service provider outside the practice to do all the billing work, often giving a fair percentage cut of the total revenue generated to them.

The medical billing outsourcing market is segmented by service (front end and back end), end user (hospitals, physicians office, and other end users), and geography (North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle-East and Africa, and South America). The report offers the value (in USD million) for the above-mentioned segments.