Medical Billing Companies & Consultants in Beverly, MA

Based in Beverly, Massachusetts, at the Cummings Center, Medical Billing Solutions (often shortened to MBS) handles revenue-cycle work for doctors and other clinicians who would rather not run that function themselves. Instead of keeping claims submission, payment follow-up and related money matters in-house, client practices pass those duties to the MBS staff. The thinking behind the arrangement is straightforward: when clinicians no longer have to manage billing, they have more attention to give the people they treat.

Background and leadership

Claire Donovan leads the firm and brings over three decades of experience in the billing field. She focuses on protecting the financial health of each client by delivering accurate, up-to-date reporting on money owed to the practice and by pursuing every dollar of reimbursement a provider is entitled to. Working out of its Beverly location, MBS says it handles both billing and bookkeeping for several healthcare organizations in the region.

Services

Claims work is only one part of what MBS does. Its offerings cover a range of financial and administrative needs, and clients can pick only the services that suit them:

• Billing for medical services, plus tracking of charges and payments received
• Bookkeeping for practices and healthcare facilities
• Billing to outside payers on a client's behalf
• Management services for physician offices
• Renewal of provider credentials
• Advisory work and practice reviews

The firm points to several advantages of handing this work to its staff. A streamlined process can save an office a great deal of administrative time, and faster, cleaner claim handling usually means money arrives more steadily. MBS also emphasizes its experience bargaining with insurers, an important strength for any office that relies heavily on payer reimbursement. Overall, the company frames its expertise as a means of giving clinicians room to focus on their patients and on growing their businesses.

Specialties served

Both individual clinicians and multi-provider groups across many disciplines rely on MBS for billing and administrative help. Fields it supports include:

• Medical imaging
• Foot and ankle care
• Heart and vascular care
• Laboratory-based diagnosis of tissue and specimens
• Eye and vision exams
• Cosmetic and reconstructive surgery
• Spinal adjustment and manual therapy
• Brain and nervous system care
• Sedation and pain control for surgical procedures
• Diagnosis and ongoing care of adult patients
• Primary care for patients of all ages
• General medical offices

The mix ranges from disciplines tied closely to hospitals, such as imaging, lab diagnostics and surgical sedation, to community settings like vision clinics, foot care offices and spinal adjustment practices. As a result, MBS works with organizations that differ considerably in scale and setup.

Working with MBS

Practices considering the firm can first ask for a free review of how their operations currently run, which serves as a basis for deciding whether outsourcing makes sense. The office keeps weekday hours, Monday through Friday. For clinicians comparing billing vendors, MBS is notable for decades of continuity under one seasoned leader and for the variety of supplementary services it provides. Since credential renewal, practice reviews, advisory work and bookkeeping are all offered together with billing, an office can bring many administrative tasks under a single provider instead of juggling several separate contractors.