Medical Billing Companies & Consultants in Westerville, OH

Accountable Revenue Cycle Solutions, often shortened to ARCS, is an outsourced medical billing firm based in Westerville, Ohio. It focuses on physician groups in interventional radiology, vascular surgery and interventional cardiology, especially practices that run an office-based endovascular lab (OBL) or have an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) as part of their operation. For buyers comparing billing vendors, its main feature is this narrow specialty focus rather than broad multi-specialty coverage.

Approach to billing

The firm's view is that billing problems often begin long before a claim is filed. It points out that keeping billing fully in house can leave a practice depending on one or two employees, while many outsourcing arrangements create a gap between clinical staff and the people who submit claims. That gap tends to produce more coding mistakes and denials.

ARCS says it closes the gap by working alongside the practice's own staff as an advisor and not as a distant back office.

In practice, this means the team gives the client's staff regular training and ongoing feedback on how the revenue cycle is performing, beginning at the front desk. The company uses technology meant to record charges as they happen, so billable work is not missed. It also puts real effort into collecting patient balances, which matters more now that many patients have high-deductible health plans. Calls to patients are handled politely, since staff speak on behalf of the physician.

Services offered

• Professional billing for medical practices
• Billing for office-based endovascular labs
• ASC facility billing
• Revenue cycle assessments and consulting
• Revenue cycle data analytics
• Real-time charge capture
• Patient balance follow-up and collections
• Training and performance feedback for front-desk and billing staff

Background and affiliations

ARCS was set up in 2017 to offer full-service billing to surgical specialties. It grew out of Accountable Physician Advisors, a management consulting firm for medical practices founded in 2013. In 2024, ARCS, Accountable Physician Advisors and DocCentric, a business that helps physicians own surgery centers, merged into one company.

Because of this, billing clients can also get help with related needs such as launching a new practice or cath lab, operational reviews, accounting and other management support. The combined company says its team works alongside practice staff during management, billing and revenue cycle work, and it uses automation in its billing technology to reduce paperwork for clients.

The firm also has a strategic partnership with Vascular Growth Services (VGS), a company that helps private practices build, open and run endovascular labs in an office setting. Under this arrangement, ARCS handles billing within the full OBL management agreements that VGS offers to vascular surgery, interventional radiology and interventional cardiology groups. Buyers planning or already running an OBL may find this connection useful, since setup and reimbursement are handled by companies that already work together.