Medical Billing Companies & Consultants in Battle Ground, WA

MBA Medical Billing Services is an outsourced billing and practice support firm based in Battle Ground, Washington. It works with physician practices and medical groups in the Pacific Northwest, and its site lists service areas including Portland, Bend, Vancouver and Spokane. The company says it supports more than 130 medical clients nationwide and handles millions of dollars in receivables. It is a fit for practices of any size, from a solo provider to a multi-specialty group.

Core Billing and Revenue Cycle Work

The firm runs the whole claims process for its clients. Its team enters charges, prepares and submits insurance claims, posts payments, follows up on denials and sends patient statements. Each claim is checked for coding accuracy against CPT, ICD-10 and payer rules before it goes out.

The company reports a clean claim rate above 95 percent and denial reductions of as much as 30 percent. For unpaid patient balances, staff send statements, emails or phone reminders, and they work with outside collection agencies when an account needs to be escalated.

• Full-cycle medical billing and patient account management
• Revenue cycle management and denial management
• Coding review and support for encounter form design
• Fee schedule analysis using RVUs and conversion factors
• Credentialing, including CAQH, PECOS and NPI tasks
• Practice management assessments and consulting audits
• Bookkeeping, including payroll, payables and quarterly reports
• Managed IT, EHR support and cybersecurity

Specialty Focus

Anesthesia billing is the company's main specialty. Its billers deal with time units, ASA physical status modifiers, medical direction modifiers such as QK and QX, and concurrency rules. They work for anesthesiologists, CRNAs and surgical practices, both in medically directed and independent CRNA settings. MBA also bills for neurosurgery and cardiology practices. A testimonial on its site says that Columbia Anesthesia Group, which has more than 60 providers, has been a client for over 18 years.

How the Firm Works with Clients

Every practice gets a dedicated account manager. That person learns the practice's specialty and workflow, tracks its results and suggests changes when payer rules shift. Clients receive reports on charges, payments, adjustments and aging. These can be customized to break results down by provider, location, payer, CPT code or service line. Anesthesia clients also get regular internal audits and documentation reviews based on CMS and commercial payer policies.

Beyond Billing

The company also offers services outside of billing. Its IT group handles network monitoring, backups and disaster recovery, HIPAA-focused security and around-the-clock helpdesk support. It also works with EHR platforms including athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, NextGen and Epic. The site describes the firm as having several decades of experience; some pages say more than 35 years, while the homepage says over a quarter-century. Buyers who want billing, credentialing, bookkeeping and IT from one vendor may find this combination useful.