Medical Billing Companies & Consultants in Harbor City, CA

South Bay Preferred Medical Billing, Corp is an outsourced medical billing and coding firm based in Harbor City, California, in the South Bay part of Los Angeles County. It markets its services as medical billing for the Torrance area. The firm works for physician offices and other healthcare practices that would rather not keep an in-house billing department.

Its main goal is to help practices get paid in full for the care they provide, instead of accepting partial payment on claims that are hard to resolve.

Team and Credentials

The company has a staff of seasoned billers working alongside an on-site Certified Professional Coder (CPC) with more than three decades in the field. It is affiliated with the AAPC, which credentials professional coders, and with the American Medical Billing Association (AMBA). Staff go to billing and coding seminars on a regular basis and complete HIPAA office training every year. This ongoing training helps the team keep up as coding and billing standards grow stricter across the healthcare industry.

Services

The firm's work centers on the full claims cycle, with particular attention to the denials and payment delays that insurers often cause. Busy practices can let these claims go unworked. The firm instead follows up on stalled claims to recover money the provider has already earned. Its core services include:

• Medical billing and claims submission
• Procedure and diagnosis coding handled by a CPC
• Denial management and insurance follow-up
• Electronic billing kept in line with industry standards
• Keeping current with new coding rules, including the move to ICD-10
• Billing processes that meet HIPAA privacy and security requirements

Specialties Served

The company lists experience with a wide range of medical and allied health specialties. This makes it a possible fit for both surgical practices and outpatient therapy offices:

• Orthopedic surgery and general surgery
• Podiatry
• Internal medicine
• Gastroenterology
• Neurology
• Infertility
• Chiropractic and acupuncture
• Physical therapy
• Psychology

How They Work With Clients

The firm says it adapts to each practice's existing workflow rather than asking the office to rebuild its procedures. It stays within HIPAA rules while keeping disruption to daily operations low. It presents outsourcing as a way for practices to avoid hiring and managing their own billing staff, which can lower overhead.

The team also says it understands the business pressures medical offices face. For buyers comparing vendors, the main points are a credentialed coder on staff, membership in recognized professional groups, yearly compliance training, a focus on working denied claims, and experience across many specialties. The company is also listed on Facebook, Google and Yelp.