CBIZ Medical Management Professionals Expands Operations To California Market
CBIZ MMP will provide a wide range of services to USCAn, including coding, billing and accounts receivable management, physician education, as well as professional operations management and administration. Based in Los Angeles, California, USCAn is part of the Keck School of Medicine of USC, with 50 faculty anesthesiologists, 41 anesthesiology residents, 22 certified registered nurse anesthetists, and 25 student registered nurse anesthetists. The Department provides services at the Los Angeles County+ USC Medical Center, USC University Hospital, USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Hospital, and the Doheny Eye Institute.
“In this our tenth anniversary year, CBIZ MMP is delighted to celebrate with the award of such a prestigious contract at the University of Southern California,” said J. Doug Bush, CPA, President of CBIZ MMP. “In opening a new Los Angeles location to handle this contract, CBIZ MMP completes its coast-to-coast reach of service centers and regional offices that provide first-class practice management services to our many physician group clients nationwide. The establishment of a local office presence for USCAn demonstrates our successful formula of “partnering” with our clients to become an extension of their practices.”
Philip D. Lumb, MB, BS, FCCM, Department Chair, commented, “The Department of Anesthesiology continues to develop and to support the clinical, education, research and administrative missions of the Keck School of Medicine of USC. Our mission in the past academic year has been to focus on quality in all aspects of the department's operations. We have achieved faculty stability, educational excellence, and research creativity.”
Dr. Lumb continued, “The selection of CBIZ Medical Management Professionals, Inc. to administer our billing operations is intended to bring the attention and quality results we need in this area to allow us to continue our focus on clinically responsive academic excellence. CBIZ MMP's excellent reputation and understanding of the business of anesthesiology gives us great confidence in our ongoing partnership.”
About USCAn
Established in 1885, the Keck School of Medicine of USC was the first medical school in the Southern California region. USCAn provides state of the art care for patients undergoing all types of surgical and other interventional procedures, including Clinical Anesthesia, Critical Care Medicine, and a Pain Management Program encompassing acute pain, cancer pain, chronic pain, and palliative services. The USC Department of Anesthesiology supports not only the busiest penetrating trauma service in the United States, but also the clinical activities of the USC University Hospital which receives Medicare's highest clinical severity index of all academic medical centers in the state of California.
About CBIZ Medical Management Professionals, Inc.
CBIZ Medical Management Professionals, Inc. is part of CBIZ (Century Business Services, Inc.), a provider of outsourced business services to companies in the United States. Chattanooga based MMP is a leading provider of business management services to hospital-based physicians and other medical practices nationwide. CBIZ MMP's flexible solutions range from “billing-only” services to “full-practice management” services. MMP serves practices ranging from less than ten providers to more than one hundred providers in private and academic group settings.
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