Medical Billing Companies & Consultants in Fort Myers, FL

Billing Gurus is a medical billing and practice management company based in Southwest Florida. It was established in 2004 in Cape Coral and later listed a second office in Fort Myers. The firm serves physicians and healthcare groups throughout the country, and it positions itself as a partner for practices that would rather not run the financial back office themselves.

Its stated aim is to turn clinical services into cash as efficiently as possible while keeping service quality and patient support intact.

Range of Services

The company covers the whole revenue cycle, from the first patient record to the last payment. Its staff includes billers, coders, callers and analysts. A typical outsourcing arrangement can include:

• Capturing patient demographics and entering charges
• Assigning diagnosis and procedure codes through certified coders
• Filing claims, whether electronic or paper
• Posting payments from insurers and patients
• Reviewing accounts receivable
• Contacting patients and insurers about unpaid balances
• Managing denials and appealing claims that were rejected or paid too little
• Enrolling physicians with insurance payers
• Confirming patient eligibility and benefits before care
• Providing live reporting on financial performance

Coding can be bought as one piece of a customized package or on its own. The firm says this work is meant to blend into a client's existing operations, protect data integrity, lower compliance exposure and shorten the time to collection. Coders are matched to a client's specialty and stay dedicated to that account.

Specialty Focus

The company argues that every type of practice faces its own billing challenges, so it tailors its work by medical field. Its materials mention a broad list that includes:

• Geriatrics
• Oncology
• Orthopedics
• Nephrology
• Urology
• Pediatrics
• Several hospital-based, primary care and procedural fields besides

It also says it has experience with all major specialties and takes on practices of every kind, from solo physicians to larger groups.

Technology, Quality and Pricing

Clients are spared the burden of buying and maintaining servers, storage and software upgrades, because Billing Gurus supplies a secure environment that meets HIPAA requirements. The firm reports familiarity with popular billing software and the ability to send claims electronically to thousands of insurers.

On quality, the company says every claim is examined before it goes out, within a multi-level control process. Each client has an assigned team and a team leader who keeps in close contact, and the firm promises a response to inquiries within a day.

It claims this approach has lifted client recovery by 10 to 25 percent and that practices can cut billing costs substantially. Compensation is a percentage of monthly net collections, set after a look at the practice's specialty, physician count and patient volume, so the company is paid only when the client is.

Expected benefits include lower overhead, fewer denied or rejected claims, faster reimbursement and stronger profitability. For practices in Florida or elsewhere seeking an outsourced billing partner with specialty-aware coding, Billing Gurus is a provider worth considering.