Medical Billing Companies & Consultants in Bentonville, AR

AMB Technology, LLC is a billing company based in Bentonville that works with healthcare providers across Northwest Arkansas, including Rogers, Lowell, Springdale, Fayetteville and nearby communities. It handles both insurance and patient-side billing for medical and dental offices.

The firm is built mainly for solo practitioners and small group practices, where a small staff or rapid growth can make it hard to keep claims moving. Its clients include physicians, dentists, clinical social workers, therapists, durable medical equipment suppliers, home healthcare agencies, and medical and dental practices in general.

Core Billing and Revenue Services

The company's main business is managing the revenue cycle for its clients. It codes encounters, submits and follows up on insurance claims, posts incoming payments, helps with physician contracting, and prepares financial reports. Taking over this administrative work lets office staff spend more time with patients, and it spares providers from tracking every change in Medicare rules.

The firm says all of its work follows HIPAA requirements. It also limits how many clients it takes on so that each practice gets enough attention from its team.

• Medical and dental billing and practice management
• Revenue cycle management, coding and payment posting
• Medical and dental credentialing
• Electronic fund transfer setup
• EMR/EHR software
• Creative collection solutions for unresolved claims
• Patient well-care outreach and custom wellness programs
• Patient assessment and medical transcription

Collections and Patient Outreach

For the few claims that stay unpaid after normal follow-up, AMB Technology offers a collection program that works differently from a standard agency. Overdue patients and insurers are told to pay the practice directly. The provider decides when collection starts and stops, and chooses whether each account is handled gently or more firmly.

The goal is to recover money without losing patient goodwill, which often happens when accounts go to aggressive outside collectors. The company says the program can cut a practice's internal costs and its collection expenses.

Separately, its well-care service sends letters, postcards and emails to remind patients about check-ups, tests and immunizations, and it can also send birthday and greeting cards to help keep patients coming back and referring others.

Software, Supplies and Added Revenue Programs

Practices that use its billing service can get practice management software at no charge, and the company sells billing forms, envelopes and software at discounted prices. It also offers a free review of CPT coding and billing costs, which produces a report on where a practice may be losing revenue.

The firm runs a wellness program that helps practices earn extra cash revenue through professional-label nutraceuticals, a low-glycemic weight management system, genetic screening for nutrition plans, and continuing education credits for clinicians. That program also includes a patient web portal with health tracking and online reordering.

Transcription and What Sets It Apart

The company also provides medical transcription and data entry for individual physicians, nursing homes and hospitals of all sizes. This covers emergency room, acute care, admission, surgical and discharge documentation, as well as pathology, radiology and labor reports. Files can be delivered as DOC, RTF, HTML, XML or PDF.

Buyers comparing vendors may want to note that the firm combines billing, credentialing, collections, patient outreach and transcription under one provider, focuses on smaller practices, and is a local Northwest Arkansas company rather than a national outsourcing center.