Hospitalist Billing Inc. (HBI) served as an important resource for the author of the article “Professional versus Facility Billing: What Hospitalists Must Know” which appeared in the June 2021 Issue of The Hospitalist.  HBI was specifically quoted as follows:

“Hospital executives are acutely aware of facility billing, but they don’t necessarily understand the nuances of professional billing, said Jay Weatherly, MS, the cofounder of Hospitalist Billing, a company that specializes in comprehensive billing and collection solutions for hospitalist groups that are employed directly by their hospitals. But he sees an essential symbiotic relationship between hospital administrators and clinicians. “We rely on hospitalists’ record keeping to do our job. We rely on them to get it right,” he said. “We want to encourage doctors to cooperate with the process. Billing should never be a physician’s top priority, but it is important, nonetheless.” HBI is relentless in pursuit of the information needed for its coding and billing, but does so gently, in a way not to put off doctors, Mr. Weatherly said. “There is an art and a science associated with securing the needed information. We have great respect for the doctors we work with, yet we’re all spokes in a bigger wheel, and we need to bill effectively in order to keep the wheel moving.”

Below is the link to the complete article:

https://cdn.mdedge.com/files/s3fs-public/hosp21_6lowres_digital.pdf