Medical Billing Companies & Consultants in Gallup, NM

Medical Practice Solutions Inc, often called MPS, is a New Mexico company that handles the business side of running a medical practice. It focuses on physician practices that bill for their own services. That includes established private offices and doctors leaving a hospital or group to open their own clinic.

The firm is mainly based in Albuquerque, and directory listings also give it an office on East Aztec Avenue in Gallup. That location lets it serve providers in the western part of the state.

What the firm does

MPS takes over the administrative work that turns patient visits into money collected. Its stated goal is to help clients bring in revenue faster and more reliably. Practices can hand off the full billing cycle so doctors and staff have more time for patients. Based on the company's own descriptions and its public business profiles, its services include:

• Medical billing and claims submission
• Medical coding of procedures and diagnoses
• Management of claims through payment
• Provider credentialing with insurance payers
• Patient accounting and accounts receivable work
• Ongoing practice management support
• Business setup help for physicians opening a new practice

How it works with clients

The company combines trained billing staff, set procedures and current software. The aim is to track each dollar a practice is owed and collect it as soon as possible. MPS says it works with solo private practices, primary care doctors and specialty groups.

It sells itself as a single outside partner for billing and administration, not a seller of separate tools, so it fits practices that want to outsource the whole function. The founders have compared the revenue cycle to household chores: the work never stops and has to be kept up daily.

Clients should expect steady follow-through on each step of a claim, not occasional cleanup.

Background and leadership

Tina Cleveland and Marie Lapina, who also goes by Marie Mercado, started Medical Practice Solutions at the beginning of 2010. State records list the company as a domestic profit corporation registered in late 2009. Government contractor listings describe it as woman-owned.

When the business was starting out, the founders got financing and technical help from WESST, a New Mexico small business development organization. The company was also accepted into the WESST Enterprise Center incubator in downtown Albuquerque. Cleveland holds an MBA and the CPC (Certified Professional Coder) credential. Mercado holds the SPHR (Senior Professional in Human Resources) certification.

Together they bring coding and HR expertise to the firm.

Considerations for buyers

Medical Practice Solutions may suit practices in New Mexico that want a local partner with a long history in the state. It may also suit physicians setting up a new practice who need billing, coding and credentialing in place from the start. Its current website gives only a short overview. Buyers should therefore ask directly which specialties it currently supports, which practice management and billing systems it uses, and how it reports results.