Medical Billing Companies & Consultants in Munster, IN

Medical Business Office, often shortened to MBO, is a healthcare revenue cycle firm based in Northwest Indiana. It works with physicians, physician practices, clinics and other healthcare providers that want to hand off some or all of their billing and coding work. Its main base is in Munster, Indiana, which puts it a short drive from Hammond and the rest of Lake County. The company has been operating since 1936.

What the company does

MBO describes itself as a full practice management and revenue cycle management agency, and it also has a coding and health information management (HIM) practice. Its outsourced services cover the main back-office steps of getting a provider paid. Buyers can expect help in these areas:

• Medical and physician billing
• End-to-end revenue cycle management
• Medical coding services
• Health information management (HIM) support
• Practice management for provider offices
• Follow-up and recovery on outstanding patient and payer balances

How it works with clients

The firm lets a practice choose how much to outsource. A provider can keep its current practice software and have MBO's billing team work on top of it. Or it can drop its current systems and move fully onto the technology MBO offers.

This matters for organizations that have already paid for a practice management or EHR platform and don't want to migrate just to change billing vendors. MBO says it aims for cost-effective and ethical work, which is worth asking about for buyers concerned with compliance.

Background and scale

The company has been in business for close to nine decades. Over that time it has moved from traditional business office work into today's revenue cycle and coding services. Business directories list Medical Business Office Corp. as a private, for-profit company. They put its headcount in the range of a few dozen to around one hundred employees.

Dun & Bradstreet also links the company to the trade name Lake County Business Bureau and classifies part of its work as collections. That suggests it can handle accounts receivable recovery as well as claims billing. A former employee's public review mentions an affiliated recovery operation and ongoing HIPAA compliance training for staff.

Considerations for buyers

MBO is a fit for practices that want a long-established regional partner rather than a national outsourcing center. It may also suit buyers who want billing, coding and collections from one vendor. It offers both a service-only option and a full technology switch. Prospective clients should ask which specialties the team covers now, which software platforms it supports, and how it reports results.