Priority Management Group – CHC Billing Experts

Priority Management Group, Inc. (PMG), a leading supplier of revenue cycle management and consulting services for community health centers (CHCs), announced today it will provide billing services for Kent Community Health Center, an organization comprising medical, dental and behavioral health providers.

Delmarva Rural Ministries (DRM) runs Kent Community Health Center, the only not-for-profit Federally Qualified Community Health Center (FQHC) serving Delaware’s Kent County. Founded in 1972, DRM is committed to helping the uninsured and underinsured of the region.

The need for Kent Community Health Center’s services is strong and growing daily. Its comprehensive staff includes board-certified physicians, dentists and mid-level providers offering adult, geriatric, pediatric, women’s health, behavioral, dental and case-management services.

“From our initial interaction, PMG has been professional, patient and extremely knowledgeable. These types of transitions can be difficult; the transition with PMG has been everything but,” said Shannon Backus, Kent Community Health Center chief operating officer. “The transition has been educational and pleasant, with goal-oriented staff. I look forward to continued work with PMG.”

“My partners and I are excited to be working with such an important organization as Kent Community Health Center,” said Robert Skeffington, PMG co-founder and partner. “With PMG’s track record of increasing revenues for its CHC clients, this relationship should allow Kent to focus on its patients’ needs and expanding on its mission.”

About Priority Management Group

PMG is an industry-leading third-party medical billing company offering services to CHCs and look-alike organizations since 2000. PMG speaks the CHC language (e.g. UDS reports, cost-based reimbursement, sliding fee scales, etc.) and has dramatically increased revenues at each of its CHC clients. For more information, please visit www.chcbilling.com or call Robert Skeffington (401-616-2020) or Ray Jorgensen (401-616-2099).

About Delmarva Rural Ministries & Kent Community Health Centers

DRM is a private not-for-profit organization serving those with modest incomes, including seasonal and migrant farm workers, and other underserved populations on the Delmarva Peninsula. Kent Community Health Center aims to provide high-quality, compassionate and culturally sensitive primary and preventive health care services to its community. For more information, please visit www.drminc.org.

Priority Management Group, Inc. (PMG), a leading national supplier of revenue cycle management and consulting services to non-profit health centers, announced today it has entered into an agreement to serve Neighborhood Health Clinics, Inc. (NHCI) of Fort Wayne, Ind.

The contractual arrangement calls for PMG to deliver a comprehensive suite of services in the back-end billing staffing, denial management and clearinghouse areas. PMG also will provide consulting services, including a full onsite operational assessment to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of front-end billing processes along with semi-annual in-service training sessions to ensure appropriate coding by physicians.

NHCI, a Federally Qualified Community Health Center (FQHC), offers a wide range of health care services, such as full family medical and dental care, pediatric care, women’s health care, pregnancy care and the Women, Infants & Children (WIC) nutritional supplement program. Since its founding in 1968, NHCI has grown steadily in terms of patients served, unduplicated encounters and programs offered to residents of Fort Wayne and surrounding areas.

A 330-funded grantee, NHCI serves clients regardless of their ability to pay. The organization needed assistance to address a number of concerns, including wraparound claims, turnover of billing staff, decreased revenue, lag time related to cash flow, inadequate reporting and the overall headaches associated with managing a complex billing process.

NHCI initially engaged PMG to assess its billing department via a mini assessment. After reviewing the results of this financial and billing benchmark evaluation, the organization selected PMG for its revenue cycle and billing needs.

“PMG is proud to welcome Neighborhood Health Clinics to its growing roster of Community Health Center [CHC] clients. We are pleased to have the opportunity to afford NHCI the ability to focus on their core competency of well serving the healthcare needs of the Fort Wayne community” said PMG President Ray Jorgensen.   “PMG hopes to create financial security and additional funds through which NHCI may further expand its community outreach. We look forward to a long, mutually rewarding relationship.”

For more information about NHCI, please call 1-260-458-2641.

About PMG

PMG is an industry-leading third-party medical billing company offering services to FQHCs and look-alike organizations since 2000. PMG speaks the CHC language (e.g. UDS reports, cost-based reimbursement, sliding fee scales, etc.) and has dramatically increased revenues, with flat patient growth, at each of its CHC clients. For more information, please visit www.chcbilling.com or call Robert Skeffington (401-616-2020).