Neltner Billing and Consulting

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We Bring the Pieces Together for You

Medical Billing and Consulting Solutions for:

  • Physician medical practices
  • Hospitals
  • University settings

Taking Care of Business While You Take Care of Patients

Neltner Billing and Consulting is a full-service medical management firm focused on providing medical practices, hospitals, and university settings with the tools to proactively manage their day-to-day business.

We specialize in providing billing and practice management programs and services that:

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  • increase revenue
  • maximize efficiencies
  • maximize third-party reimbursements
  • maintain regulatory compliance with local and national Medicare and OSHA standards
  • measure, analyze and benchmark data

We have over 16 years of experience and have consulted with more than 350 hospitals, medical practices, and universities in virtually all 50 states.

While you take care of your patients, let us put the pieces together to help grow your business.

Physician Billing Services

Whether you're a solo practitioner, in a hospital or university setting, or seeking to establish a joint venture, Neltner Billing and Consulting can help you ensure a maximum collection rate.

Our employee team brings financial, clinical and administrative expertise together to provide ongoing solutions in every aspect of billing to include:

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  • entering charges and receipts
  • pre-collection services
  • state-of-the-art electronic claims submissions
  • fast turnaround of your funds
  • office and billing forms
  • weekly, monthly and yearly statistical reporting
  • physician productivity tracking
  • annual review of coding

Practice Management Consulting

Neltner's consulting efforts are enhanced by the fact that we are a full-service physician and hospital billing firm.

Our consultation services begin by identifying the unique and specific needs of our clients followed by goal setting and appropriate action plans.

While we cannot make guarantees, most of our clients generally realize a 20% - 90% increase in reimbursements and/or receivable performance through out program.

Our consulting services include:

  • Mergers, acquisitions, and third-party negotiations
  • Preparation for managed care contracts
  • Medical practice start-up consulting: office layout, exam room layout, financial projections and business planning
  • Joint venture/expansion services
  • Physician-hospital relationship building
  • Audits
  • Reporting methods to track referral patterns
  • Regulatory compliance program and training
  • Efficient integration of your current systems with Misys or other computer systems
  • Employee training programs and seminars
  • Marketing services

Local and National Lobbying Efforts

Members of Neltner Billing and Consulting's staff are engaged on an ongoing basis in health care reform lobbying.

Our efforts encompass activities on both a national level and in various grass roots programs across the country.

Our activities include:

  • Corresponding with Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) representatives
  • Corresponding with key health care reform committee members relative to health care national policy
  • Educating and corresponding with congressional representatives on local and national levels
  • Writing positioning papers on various health care issues - several of which have been published in peer-reviewed publications
  • Conducting local town meetings
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Latest News as of
July 2009  

Are Your Medical Practices Compliant With the "Rules"?

We are reaching out to all our readers in the medical field to alert them about the August 1st, 2009 deadline (recently extended from May 1st) associated with the "Red Flags" Rule enforced by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), as well as compliance with the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA).

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Are You Paying Attention to Your Fee Schedules?

Have you reviewed your fee schedules lately to determine if you're getting proper reimbursement for all your services? Now is a great time to take a look at what you are doing and make appropriate changes for 2009.

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Can Our Healthcare System Finally be Fixed?

Our government spends a lot of time trying to fix our healthcare system implementing policies and procedures that don't work, make things worse, or sometimes standing idle and not doing anything. We know this because we live the effects of their decisions and indecisions every single day.

Can creating a competition to finally find the answer that fixes our healthcare system be the key?

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Take Our Online Survey Regarding the High Cost of Oncology Drugs

If you're a medical oncologist/hematologist we need your help. We believe the current drug pricing methodology for chemotherapy and other related drugs is terribly flawed. It is driving practices out of business and putting patient care at risk. We'd like to gather actual practice data relative to this issue and how it's affecting practices across the US, tally it and submit in report format to key congressional and Medicare representatives. Our goal is to help drive reform in the drug purchasing process.

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Oncology Drug Rebates and Bundling Practices: Are They Really Helping Anyone?

As you are aware, there is an urgent need in the oncology community to stop the practices of drug rebates and bundling. Instead, we need to concentrate on reducing the cost of the drugs. Too many small practices are being either forced to close, or seek alternative solutions to increase their incomes. Ethical questions also arise as to whether patients are receiving the best drugs for their treatments. In response to this critical issue, Neltner Billing and Consulting is submitting a letter to ASCO asking them to take a position on this situation.

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Taking Care of Business While You Take Care of Patients

Are you billing Medicare and private pay insurance companies for every medically necessary and appropriate service? Would you be prepared if Medicare came back to you, disputed your billing and wanted funds returned? If not, you may want to consider outsourcing your billing services.

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Neltner Abstract Accepted by ASCO

Neltner Billing and Consulting is honored that the American Society of Clinical Oncology accepted our abstract, "An Examination of Oncology Drug Purchasing Compared to Average Sales Price" for online posting. You can view the full abstract on the ASCO website.


Persistence Pays Off: A Success Story Worth Discussing

On behalf of a client, we have a great success story to report. One of our oncology clients was having continued denials with a large private pay insurance company. The oncologist was following AMA coding guidelines, but the insurance company did not agree.

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Please also visit the Neltner Advocacy Alliance website

Call Us Today For a Private Consultation

With the added pressure that national health care trends have put on physicians, hospitals and medical groups to conduct business, you are faced with more financial decisions than ever.

Call Neltner Billing and Consulting today for a private consultation regarding how we can proactively help manage your business.

888-635-8637