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Bay Area Medical Billing

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For Bay Area Medical Practices

Bay Area Medical Billing

Bay Area medical practices operate the highest-cost healthcare market in California. Underpayments hurt more here than anywhere else. SF Health Plan covers the city’s Medi-Cal, Anthem and Health Net carry most commercial mix, and Sutter Health Plus and Kaiser commercial dominate by hospital affiliation. Most billing companies do not adjust their work to the Bay Area’s payer mix. That is why your AR sits.

  • ✓Owner-led California team. Not a call center.
  • ✓Knows Bay Area payers: SF Health Plan, Anthem, Health Net, Blue Shield, Kaiser commercial, Sutter Health Plus, UnitedHealthcare.
  • ✓Free 30-day AR audit before you sign anything
  • ✓Works with Epic, Athenahealth, Kareo, eClinicalWorks
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By the numbers

The math, in plain English.

98%
First-pass clean-claim rate
17d
Median days in AR industry avg ~38
72hr
Median first-touch on every denial
1:1
A named account manager. Owner reachable.

Figures reflect 1st Medical Billing’s California book, trailing 12 months. Industry comparison: MGMA / HBMA published medians.

Why practices switch

Three things national billing companies can’t say.

We only bill on paid claims.

If a claim doesn’t get paid, we don’t get paid for it. No retainer, no per-claim fee, no monthly minimum. The math means we chase your denials like they’re our own.

We know your payers by name.

We work San Francisco Health Plan, Anthem, Health Net, Blue Shield, Kaiser commercial, Sutter Health Plus, UnitedHealthcare, and Medicare across San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, the Peninsula, and the East Bay. We know SF Health Plan’s two-step appeal process. We know which Bay Area commercial payers are slow-paying right now.

A real person answers.

Not a ticket queue. Not a chatbot. The owner is on the line, or one ring away. You’ll know your account manager by name within the first week.

How a switch works

Four weeks. No disruption to your front desk.

  1. 1

    Free 30-day AR audit

    Send us your last 90 days of remits and aging report. Within a week we’ll send back a written read on what’s leaking and how much we’d recover.

  2. 2

    Credentialing & payer setup

    We confirm credentialing is current with every CA payer you bill. Anything missing, we re-credential. Clearinghouse handoff happens behind the scenes.

  3. 3

    Live billing in week 3

    Charges from your EMR start flowing into our system. Aging AR is worked in parallel. We don’t write off old claims to “start fresh.”

  4. 4

    Monthly review with the owner

    A real meeting, not a PDF. Numbers, trends, denials worked, what’s blocked, what we’re recommending.

Common questions

Honest answers, in plain English.

Pricing is custom per practice, based on specialty, payer mix, and volume. We don’t post numbers because medical-billing pricing isn’t one-size-fits-all. The thing we’ll commit to in writing: we only bill on paid claims. No retainers. No setup fees. No per-claim charges. Tell us about your practice and we’ll send a real quote within 48 hours.
You send us your last 90 days of remits plus your current aging report. We work through them by hand, by a real biller, and send back a written read inside a week. We’ll flag what’s recoverable, what’s leaking, what the denial patterns are, and what specifically we’d do differently. There’s no pitch on that document. If you keep your current biller, you keep the audit. It’s free.
Four weeks for a clean transition, including credentialing verification, clearinghouse handoff, and EMR/PM integration. We don’t pause your billing to “start fresh.” Old AR gets worked in parallel. Your front desk doesn’t change anything.
Yes. Epic, Cerner, Athenahealth, Allscripts, Kareo, Practice Fusion, eClinicalWorks, NextGen, AdvancedMD, DrChrono, and most of the long-tail. If you have a system we haven’t touched, tell us; we’ve onboarded it before.
Yes. Signed BAA, encrypted-at-rest data, US-only access, full audit trail on every PHI touch. Happy to walk through our security paperwork on the discovery call.
Yes. Our team works practices in Los Angeles, San Diego, the Bay Area, Orange County, Sacramento, the Inland Empire, and the Central Valley. We’re remote-friendly but California-based — billers, account managers, and the owner are all in CA. Time-zone-aligned with your front desk.
Free 30-day AR audit

Bay Area billing, recovered AR, real humans. Want to see your numbers?

Send us your aging report and last 90 days of remits. We’ll send back a written read inside a week. A real human picks up the call you place.

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