Medical Billing Companies & Consultants in Fremont, NE

Strong-Arm Medical Billing, LLC is a billing company in Fremont, Nebraska that handles insurance billing for behavioral and mental health providers. Its office is in Fremont, but it works with clients across the country. Most of its clients are therapists, counselors and other practices that rely on getting claims to health insurers right. The firm says its work complies with both HIPAA and CMS requirements.

Services

The firm covers most of the revenue cycle for outpatient mental health practices, from checking a client's coverage before a session to collecting the final balance. Its services include:

• Verifying insurance eligibility and benefits before sessions
• Preparing and submitting clean claims
• Posting payments from insurers and from clients
• Chasing unpaid claims, including fixing and resubmitting them when needed
• Contacting patients about outstanding copays and deductibles
• Consulting and cleanup of backlogged accounts
• Training for practices that want to handle billing in-house

How They Work With Clients

Strong-Arm doesn't ask practices to move to a new system. Instead, it logs into the provider's existing electronic health record and does the billing there. The team says it knows several platforms that therapists commonly use, including SimplePractice, Jane, TherapyNotes, Sessions Health, Ensora Health and Therapy Appointment.

Clinicians can keep scheduling, notes and billing data in one place while handing off the paperwork. The company has more than fifteen years of medical billing experience and knows the CMS-1500 professional claim well, which is the standard form for outpatient provider billing.

Practices that want to build their own billing skills can use the training option instead of outsourcing long term. Practices that have fallen behind on claims can use a cleanup project to get current.

Team and Background

A married couple owns and runs the business. Tasha Strong, the owner and an accounts manager, studied medical coding and billing through Everest College in California. She has worked for several billing agencies, ran an eye clinic, and worked as a scribe for pediatric physicians at Omaha's Children's Hospital.

After more than a decade in healthcare, she started the company with her wife. Beth Strong is the marketing and accounts manager and has more than five years in billing. She studied accounting and business administration at Omaha's Metropolitan Community College.

She has also done bookkeeping and management for small retail and online businesses, and she has run her own online store.

For buyers comparing medical billing providers, Strong-Arm stands out in three ways. It specializes in mental health claims, it works inside a practice's current EHR, and the people managing client accounts are the owners themselves. It may suit practices that want hands-on help with therapy billing, a one-time cleanup, or coaching so they can bring billing in-house. The office is open during standard business hours, Monday through Friday.