McBee Associates
McBee Associates, Inc. is a recognized leader in providing managerial and financial consulting services to the health care industry. Established in 1973, the firm has become one of the nation’s largest independent health care financial consulting practices by developing lasting solutions that ensure the financial success of our clients. This commitment to client success is ingrained in the firm’s culture.
Equipped with a broad array of services developed exclusively for health care providers, McBee Associates offers solutions that address the unique financial and operational needs of hospitals, home health, long-term care, and other organizations. McBee Associates’ consulting professionals have extensive experience and in-depth knowledge of health care regulations and policies.
Health care providers across the nation look to McBee Associates to provide comprehensive services and expert resolution of various financial issues they encounter. With a client base that includes more than 3,500 health care providers, McBee Associates has earned the trust of hospitals and agencies of all sizes and types, including Fortune 500 companies, major for-profit and not-for-profit chains, health systems, and independent providers.
A few of the services the firm offers include:
Revenue Cycle Process Improvement
McBee Associates provides revenue cycle services that address a myriad of issues, including patient intake, clinical documentation, claim submission, and collections. With accounts receivable specialists, operations managers, information technology experts, and registered nurses, the firm has the knowledge and experience to solve revenue cycle problems. McBee Associates helps create new processes, develop new policies, and implement new technologies to improve revenue cycle efficiency and profitability.
Post-Acute Care Transfer (PACT) Review
Utilizing comprehensive methods to verify the accuracy of discharge coding, McBee Associates consistently identifies additional reimbursement opportunities on claims subject to the Post-Acute Care Transfer policy. The firm’s professionals recognize the importance of reconciling discrepancies, and approach every PACT engagement with a thoroughness that guarantees increased compliance and surpasses other firms’ recoveries by 15%.
Three-Day Payment Window Rule Review
McBee Associates is the leader in providing Three-Day Payment Window Rule services. The firm’s experts spent more than a year researching Medicare regulations, developing data-mining engines, and perfecting the service. McBee Associates’ sophisticated, proprietary software identifies reimbursement lost due to erroneous bundling of outpatient and inpatient services. The firm’s certified coders and financial experts then unbundle, code, and submit the new outpatient claims, as well as resubmit the revised inpatient claims. McBee Associates has worked extensively with CMS and fiscal intermediaries to ensure the firm’s processes are compliant with Medicare regulations.
Denials Management
Appeals processing and denials management require extensive knowledge, through follow up, and proven methodologies to successfully recover revenue and reduce denial rates. McBee Associates’ Denials Management Group is an accomplished team of registered nurses and physician assistants with the experience and expertise necessary to create appeals that get results. The firms’ clinical experts have overturned thousands of denied claims and recovered over 72% of denied dollars for our clients.
Financial Services
McBee Associates understands the importance of cash flow and profitability. The firm’s expert consultants help clients address critical financial needs, including feasibility studies, budget planning, year-end audits, reimbursement projects, financial analyses, and strategic planning. McBee Associates’ services are designed to supplement clients’ financial department and improve profitability.
Interim Management
Health care providers often find themselves in need of interim managers to cover extended leaves of absence or to perform the duties of a vacant position. Interim managers may also be valuable during transition periods related to re-engineering, consolidation, or mergers. McBee Associates’ experienced professionals quickly integrate themselves into the client’s management team and become effective contributors within days. The firm’s exceptional approach to interim management ensures the provider has the level of expertise required to meet the organization’s demands.
To learn more about how partnering with McBee Associates can contribute to your organization’s success, contact Mike Dordick, Vice President–Principal at 610.964.9680.
In the constantly volatile healthcare environment, one firm has been a consistent beacon for healthcare providers to rely on to enhance revenues, provide operational expertise and advocate for their benefit. Since 1986, BESLER Consulting has been assisting healthcare providers navigate successfully the shifting healthcare landscape with noteworthy successes. BESLER Consulting clients report that revenues have been enhanced, operational efficiencies have been gained and compliance has been achieved by partnering with us to provide our expertise in financial and operational aspects of the healthcare arena.
Our Size and Focus are Your Assets. What began over 20 years ago as a reimbursement specialty firm, has grown into a firm of nearly 40 professional staff providing experience in healthcare operations, revenue management and optimization, clinical and compliance services, and financial management. BESLER Consulting clients benefit from a team of highly experienced, dedicated professionals, many of whom have come directly from top management positions within healthcare organizations. Our professional staff brings to each engagement in-depth experience in a wide range of financial, operational and compliance issues. Our focus is on developing customized and comprehensive solutions for our clients based on both their unique circumstances and our distinguished ability to attack an issue from financial, clinical and operational angles. Our team has honed their expertise as consultants as provider-side management, at the fiscal intermediary and in hospital settings. BESLER Consulting understands your needs and is your partner through these challenging times. We search for the ideal solution to every concern and continue to maintain a close relationship even after completion of our engagement. Throughout the engagement, our integrated team of experts searches for additional opportunities for you. Our responsive and proactive approach, as well as our product offerings, allows us to maintain solid, long term relationships with our clients.
Core Values. Our Core Values guide our relationships and allow us to strive for continual improvement internally as well as with our clients.
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- Honesty, integrity and trust.
- Promoting an environment of unity, mutual respect and personal growth.
- Individual initiative and accountability within the team framework.
- Constructive candor in all that we do.
- Commitment to excellence for our clients and in our work, relationships and people.
Mission. The mission of BESLER Consulting is to be the consultants of choice among healthcare providers. We believe in earning the trust of our clients by demonstrating our expertise in enhancing revenue, gaining operational efficiencies and assisting them in achieving and maintaining compliance. We fulfill our mission by developing value based relationships that focus on long term results not individual engagements and by being accessible to our clients whenever we are needed. We bring integrity and honesty to all aspects of our practice. We are above reproach and, always, people of our word.For more information please call or email Scott Besler at (732) 839-1219 (sbesler@beslerconsulting.com) or visit our website at www.beslerconsulting.com.
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IMA Consulting
IMA Consulting is the team you can trust to solve your healthcare finance and management challenges. We provide customer-focused and cost-effective solutions to the toughest problems in healthcare management. Our consulting services are leveraged by hospitals and health systems of all sizes throughout the United States. Each engagement is led and staffed with our in-house experts, who average over 20 years of experience in healthcare operations, revenue management, clinical and support services, and financial management.
A Team Approach to Problem Solving
IMA Consulting is different from other consulting firms because we believe in empowering your staff to manage the change process and the consulting engagement. Our experience shows that meaningful staff involvement leads to better internal support, and measurable improvement outcomes. In each engagement, we work to create integrated solutions that support the entire organization — a job that is done best with the support and expertise of your staff.
The Value of Experience
Just like our healthcare clients, IMA Consulting is concerned about ensuring excellent value for your money. We make a point of keeping our fee structure lower than many of the large consulting firms, while staffing our engagements with seasoned healthcare professionals, not a pyramid of inexperienced, yet costly, junior staff. Our consultants offer outstanding track records of innovation and achievement, gained through years of experience working for major healthcare provider organizations and consulting firms.
A History of Trust
In just over 10 years, IMA Consulting has grown from a team of two to one of the largest privately-held healthcare provider consulting firms in the country. We maintain a work culture based on trust, teamwork, fairness and value for the customer. Since its inception in 1996, IMAConsulting has provided services and solutions for over 500 healthcare organizations across the United States. Customers range from large, multi-state healthcare systems, to freestanding hospitals, to law firms and other professionals who support healthcare providers. IMA Consulting has served many of our customers over multiple engagements. These repeat clients trust our long-term commitment to integrity and objectivity. For more information, please contact us at 866-840-0151 or visit our website at www.ima-consulting.com
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