For primary care, urgent care & specialty practices

It's 9:47 PM and you're still in the EHR. Again.

The clinic closed five hours ago. The kids are asleep. You're not catching up on charts because you love medicine. You're catching up because there was no other time today — and there won't be tomorrow either.

Hired Billing Support is the remote team that takes back the operational layer of your practice. RCM, prior auths, AR follow-up, charting support, message triage, insurance verification — all inside your EHR, working like your in-house team.

— Provider inbox · Monday 9:47 PM

Unread patient messages127
Refill requests pending34
Prior auths in draft11
Lab results to review22
Denied claims unfiled18
Charts to close from today9
Tomorrow's schedule verified0 of 24
You've been in the EHR for 1 hr 23 min
The evening every physician knows

You already know how this goes.

You opened the laptop at 9 PM thinking it'd take 30 minutes. It's been an hour.

You still haven't responded to the patient asking about her labs. The prior auth for Mrs. Johnson's MRI is sitting in a draft, half-finished — you needed five more minutes with her chart and you didn't have it. There are seven medication refills in your inbox. Three messages from the front desk. Two from your MA. One from a payer about a denied claim you didn't even know was denied.

You'll get to it tomorrow. Except tomorrow has 24 patients on the schedule, three new starts, and a peer-to-peer at lunch.

You went to medical school. You didn't go to admin school.

01
You're charting after hours.
The average PCP spends nearly 2 hours on the EHR for every hour of patient care. Your evenings aren't yours anymore.
2 hrs/day lost
02
Prior auths are eating your day.
Each prior auth takes 16-23 minutes of staff time. You do 30+ a week. That's a full-time person buried in hold music.
~10 hrs/week
03
Claim denials keep climbing.
The national denial rate is creeping toward 17%. Most of yours are recoverable — if someone actually worked them.
~17% denied
04
Your MA is doing too much.
She's rooming patients, calling pharmacies, triaging messages, scrubbing claims, and verifying insurance. She's about to quit. You know it.
burnout risk
05
Coding errors are quietly costing you.
Wrong modifier. Wrong place-of-service. Wrong level. Each error is $40-$200 in lost revenue — multiplied by every un-audited claim.
$40-200/claim
06
Hiring is broken.
You posted for a biller in March. Filled it in June. Trained until November. They left in February. You're hiring again.
14-mo tenure
07
You're not "burned out." You're always behind.
You don't need yoga. You don't need a wellness app. You need 20 hours of administrative time off your plate every week.
20 hrs/week
What's actually happening behind the scenes

You don't need a better EHR. You need an operational layer.

You think you have a scheduling problem. You think you need to see fewer patients. You think you need a better EHR.

You don't. You have an operational layer that hasn't kept up with the practice you've built. Every system is running at 110% of capacity. When something slips, everything slips.

Here's what it looks like inside a typical 3-provider practice:

  • Provider time lost to EHR and admin per day~2 hours
  • Claims denied on first pass8-12%
  • Recoverable AR sitting past 90 days$80-140k
  • Prior auths per week × avg minutes each40+ × 14 min
  • Staff time consumed by verification & calls22-32%
  • Annual admin-role turnover~30%
That's not a staffing budget problem. That's an operational design problem.
— Our model

We're the operational layer your practice has been missing.

Hired Billing Support gives you a healthcare-trained remote team that lives inside your EHR — Athena, eCW, Kareo, AdvancedMD, NextGen, DrChrono, Epic, Cerner — and runs the work that's drowning your in-house staff.

You'll have named team members. They'll learn your providers, your payers, your specialty workflows, your patients. They'll feel like staff. Because in every operational sense — they are.

The difference: you didn't have to hire them, train them for six months, or replace them when they leave for a $5 raise across town.

What we run for your practice

The full operational stack.

Pick the layers you need. Run one service, or hand us the entire back office. Every engagement shaped around your specialty, EHR, and growth stage.

Revenue Cycle Management

End-to-end ownership — coding, claim submission, AR, denials, appeals, payment posting, patient billing. One team, one scorecard.

Prior Authorization

Pre-cert submission, payer follow-up, peer-to-peer prep, status tracking. We shorten time-to-approval and stop auths from delaying care.

AR Follow-Up

Every aging bucket worked. Payer calls, status checks, re-submissions, appeals. Most clients see AR days drop below 30 in the first quarter.

Denial Management

Every denial categorized, prioritized, and appealed by a specialist who knows the payer rules. Higher overturn rates. Less staff time.

Insurance Verification

Real-time benefits checks before the patient walks in. Co-pays, deductibles, coverage limits — documented in the chart before rooming.

Virtual Medical Assistant

Charting support, message triage, refill management, referrals, lab follow-up. A clinical extension that's quiet, accurate, always there.

Front Desk Support

Phones answered. Scheduling managed. Recall worked. New patients onboarded. Virtual coverage or full takeover — your call.

Coding Audit & Review

Quarterly accuracy review. We catch under-coding, missed modifiers, level mismatches quietly leaving money on the table.

Healthcare Ops Management

For larger practices: an operations lead embedded in your team. Workflows, dashboards, vendor management. The COO-layer you don't have yet.

How we work

We adapt to your process. Not the other way around.

— 01

We log into your EHR.

Athena, eCW, Kareo, AdvancedMD, DrChrono, NextGen, Epic, Cerner. Whatever you use, that's where we work. No exports. No portals.

— 02

We follow your SOPs.

Your protocols, payer contracts, specialty quirks. We plug into how your practice actually runs — not the other way around.

— 03

We report to you.

Daily communication on your channel — Slack, Teams, email, phone. Weekly KPIs. Monthly working session.

— 04

We use your tools.

Your phone system, secure messaging, patient communication platform. To your patients, we are your practice.

The AI + human advantage

AI handles the repetition. Humans handle the judgment.

Eligibility checks, claim scrubbing, denial categorization, appointment reminders — automated. Fast, accurate, never tired.

Payer escalations, complex appeals, peer-to-peer prep, patient conversations about balances — those go to a trained human every time.

You don't want an AI agent calling United about a $4,200 denied claim. You don't want a chatbot explaining a balance to a worried patient. You want speed where speed wins, and a real person where it actually matters.

That's the model. Boring to describe. Powerful to run.

— AI handles
— Humans handle
Eligibility checks automated in seconds
Payer escalations specialist-led calls
Claim scrubbing payer-rule validated
Complex appeals narrative, evidence-based
Denial categorization auto-triaged, routed
Peer-to-peer prep chart review, talking points
Appointment reminders automated cadence
Patient balance calls empathy, clarity, tone
By the numbers

What changes in the first 90 days.

Drawn from active clients across primary care, urgent care, behavioral health, cardiology, ortho, and multi-specialty groups.

+27%
Average monthly collections lift across medical clients.
22d
AR days — down from a 47-day average baseline.
98%
First-pass clean-claim rate across all specialties.
2+hrs
Returned to the provider — per day. Charts done before dinner.
Remote staffing solution by HBS has freed the resources of the HBS, enabling us to spend more time at the bedside and enhance the efficiency of the whole process.
AF
Dr Afreen Sheikh
Internal Medicine
The honest comparison

Why not just hire another biller, MA, or office manager?

You've done the math before. Let's do it again with the actual numbers.

In-house hire (biller / MA)
Embedded HBS team
$52,000–$78,000 salary
Percentage of collections OR per-seat monthly
+ benefits, PTO, payroll tax, training
No benefits, no PTO gaps, no taxes
4–9 months to fill the seat
Live in 10–14 business days
6 months to actually train
Pre-trained in your EHR and specialty
Single point of failure
Cross-covered — billing, AR, prior auth, VA
14-month average tenure in admin roles
No turnover risk to your practice
You bear the management burden
They report to you. We manage them.
And the cost nobody adds to the spreadsheet: your time recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, and re-hiring. That's the most expensive line item — because it comes out of your evenings.
Let's look at the actual numbers

Send us a denial report. We'll show you what's recoverable.

Send us a recent AR aging summary and a denial report. Within 5 business days, we'll come back with a free RCM audit showing exactly where revenue is leaking — and what we'd do about it. If the audit shows you're already running clean, we'll say so.

HIPAA compliant · BAA on every engagement · No long-term contract
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