Medical Billing Companies & Consultants in Commack, NY

Accu-Med Billing Solutions, Inc. is a medical billing and practice management firm in Commack, on Long Island, New York. It works for healthcare providers and their front-office teams who want to hand off the administrative and financial side of running a practice. The company says its goal is to take the billing workload off physicians and staff so they can spend their time on patient care.

Background

Robyn Goldberg founded the firm after spending years in the medical field. During that time she saw that many practices lost revenue because claims were submitted incorrectly or never followed up. That experience still shapes the firm's approach: it treats accurate submission and steady follow-up as its main priorities. The company also states that its operations are HIPAA compliant.

Services

Accu-Med groups its work into several service lines that practices can use as a complete outsourced billing function:

• Full practice management: demographic and master-file data entry, coding and charge review, electronic billing, collections follow-up and receivables management
• Claims management: eligibility and benefits checks, authorization tracking, claim submission to insurers, patient billing and collections, receiving remittances, posting payments and intensive follow-up on open claims
• Credentialing and enrollment: managing the paperwork to enroll providers with Medicare, Medicaid and commercial payers
• Report management: practice profiles, coding data analysis, and reports breaking down charges, insurance activity and payments
• EHR: setting up a certified electronic health records system

The staff work on coding analysis and file claims both electronically and on paper. This can help practices whose payer mix still includes some carriers that do not accept electronic claims.

How the firm works with practices

The company works closely with each client's office staff rather than operating as a remote back office. Practices receive monthly accounts receivable reports so they can track outstanding balances and cash flow. Accu-Med presents reporting as the way providers understand their practice's financial health, including which codes, payers and payment patterns drive revenue. Before signing on, prospective clients can meet with the firm in person to discuss how it would fit into their workflow.

On the technology side, the firm offers a certified EHR system with custom templates and workflow tools. It has presented this system as a way for practices to qualify for Meaningful Use incentive payments. It has also posted updates on industry transaction standards, such as its readiness for 5010 compliance. This suggests the firm keeps up with changes in electronic claims formats that affect its clients.

For buyers comparing medical billing vendors, Accu-Med offers a combination of hands-on claims work, payer credentialing, financial reporting and EHR support from one Long Island office. That may suit independent practices that want local, personal service and a single firm handling everything from patient registration data to final collection.