Medical Billing Companies & Consultants in South San Francisco, CA

Overview

JNM Associates, Inc. is a small, family-run firm based in South San Francisco that has supported healthcare providers around the Bay Area since 1993. The company pairs outsourced medical billing with general accounting and bookkeeping.

That makes it a good fit for independent physicians, small clinics and other medical offices that would rather hand off the financial side of the practice than build their own billing department. Its stated goal is to let practitioners concentrate on patients while the firm handles invoicing, receivables and reporting in the background.

Medical billing and revenue cycle support

On the billing side, JNM manages the money from the time a service is provided until the payment is deposited. The firm bills both patients and insurers, submits claims electronically and follows up on unpaid balances. A typical engagement can include:

• Patient statements and insurance claim submission
• Receiving and depositing incoming payments
• Collection follow-up on overdue accounts
• Reports on payment and billing activity
• Fee schedule analysis
• Monthly billing for the practice as a whole

Because the same team also keeps the books, billing data can flow straight into receivables reconciliation and financial statements. This cuts down on the hand-offs a practice would otherwise have to manage between a billing service and a separate bookkeeper. The firm describes its electronic billing as low-cost and aimed at smaller offices.

Accounting, bookkeeping and payroll

Beyond claims, JNM offers a wide range of back-office work. On the receivables side it handles deposits and reconciliation. On the payables side it assigns invoices to the right ledger codes, reconciles credit card statements, scans receipts and writes checks to vendors.

The firm prepares month-end, quarterly and annual reports such as profit and loss statements, balance sheets and cash flow statements, plus custom reports on request. It also offers payroll processing and the related quarterly and year-end payroll tax filings, 1099 preparation for independent contractors, and tax preparation and planning by a CPA.

Software expertise

JNM is a QuickBooks Professional Advisor for Intuit products and works with both the online and desktop versions. It can install QuickBooks, move existing records into it and train office staff to use it. For billing, the team has experience with Medisoft, a practice billing program, which may appeal to offices that already use it or are considering it.

Leadership and approach

The firm is led by President Brian Marston, who holds a business administration degree with an accounting emphasis. He has more than twenty years of accounting and bookkeeping work for organizations of all sizes, plus over seven years of medical billing for small practices. He is a certified QuickBooks advisor and belongs to the AIPB, a professional association for bookkeepers.

As a family-run company, JNM tailors each engagement to the needs of the practice instead of selling a fixed package. It presents itself as a way for providers to reduce bookkeeping errors, save administrative time and focus on clinical work and growing their practice.