Billing & Collection Services

A prudent person would never give his/her checkbook to a stranger, or for that matter, a recent acquaintance. You are, however, essentially giving your"business checkbook" away each time you hire a new billing staff member. Billing is your life blood and must be safeguarded at all costs.

Cash flow is totally dependent upon how patient accounts receivable are managed. You must entrust your cash flow management to one or two office staff members or to a professional billing service. Advantages of using the professional billing services include the advanced training, education and experience of the billing service professionals, bonding and background investigation of all billing service personnel, full coverage of all service personnel absences, constant evaluation, and ongoing professional training of staff. You receive daily or weekly update reports on the status of accounts receivable and are personally informed whenever any negative variation or concern in trends are identified so immediate action can be taken. Additionally, you do not have to purchase and maintain computer hardware, software, or annual support services, as these expenses become the responsibility of the billing service.

By entrusting cash flow to one or two office staff members, your are totally financially dependent upon your personnel. If a billing staff member decides to leave your practice, you face the stress of assuring that the accounts receivable function is maintained appropriately and is transferred in a timely fashion to someone else. Training time is usually required and can result in a substantial decrease of cash. In addition, you will be required to invest more time and money into training a new billing staff member. In many instances, an increase in salary costs will also result.

Without a professional, bonded billing service, you assume all the risks for your staff's performance. These risks mandate that you become and expert in financial management and accounts receivable billing in order to assure that you become an expert in financial management and accounts receivable billing in order to assure that proper controls and safeguards are, in place and consistently followed on a daily basis by your staff.

At Florida Medical Management Consultants, Inc., we know that keeping up with the growing complexities of medical reimbursement is absolutely critical for timely, maximum payment for medical services rendered. As a trained and experience d primary care and multi-specialty billing service, we are your vital link between providing health care services and receiving payment for those services.

We are committed to providing affordable billing services, for practices of all sizes, lowering your office overhead and reducing the number of claims rejected by insurers. Avoid delayed, rejected, or reduced payment of your claims die to incomplete or improperly coded claims, and let us free you from the day-to-day worries of medical billing and collections and give your back the time to focus your attention on the practice of medicine.

The following list outlines reasons that you cannot afford to be without Florida Medical Management Consultants, Inc's services:


•Our posting of payments, by charge line item, will increase the accuracy of posting improving your revenue statistics and ultimately aid in negotiations of your managed care contracts.

•Our daily generation of primary, secondary/tertiary claims and patient statements will lower your overall accounts receivable and expedite reimbursement.

•Our electronic billing will minimize your processing cycle for insurance, track your receivables more effectively, and positively, and positively impact your turnaround time for your accounts receivable.

•Our establishment of audit trails and accountability controls will protect your cash flow management

•Our ongoing evaluation of your accounts receivable will identify trends as they develop, allowing us to promptly carry out strategies to correct any unfavorable trends and reverse the negative activity.

•Our Insurance Audit Control will increase the accuracy of our accounts receivable. Our computerized system automatically calculates your co-payments, write-offs and percentages owed by patient and guarantor - eliminating bottlenecks at check our computer operator input errors, and employee time required to manually adjust changes and payments.

•Our registration process will simplify your patient registration, allowing quick and accurate entry of relevant information through two primary screens.

•Our computer SECURITY features will guarantee your patient and practice confidentiality.

•Our multi-modifiers, multi-diagnoses (ICD-9-CM) per CPT Code, and diagnoses code linking will insure proper priority procedure/diagnosis linkage for timely and maximum reimbursement of your claims.

•Our billing process gives your staff access to patient account information and you the option of posting charges and/or over the counter payments in your office or having this process completed in the Florida Management Consultants, Inc. office.

•Our management information programs will enable you to either generate specialized reports on demand, or request specialized reports from Florida Medical Management Consultants, Inc. permitting you to track information specific to your individual needs. This information is especially important in managed care contract evaluation and negotiations.

•Our hands on training and ongoing (dial-up) accessibility to your staff will ease your transition and insure rapid and competent billing and collections of your accounts.