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About Us
Mission
Statement
Emergency Groups' Office provides medical
billing and other business services to emergency physician
groups. Our objective is to obtain the highest equitable net
income per patient for our clients following the principal
that we use the fees our clients' pay us for their benefit.
At all times we will deliver our services while holding to
the highest ethical and legal standards. We will staff the
Company with employees encompassing a blend of clinical and
business backgrounds as we know, that contributions from both
disciplines are necessary to obtain our objective.
Our
Vision
We will do everything within our
capability to enhance the business side of the practice of
emergency medicine. We will assist our clients to manage their
businesses more effectively and efficiently and to secure
their contracts and therefore their future. We will work with
our clients so that through our joint efforts we will obtain
equitable payment for all of the services they provide. We
will assist our clients' physicians to appropriately document
their services for medical, legal and reimbursement purposes.
We will assist our clients' patients by helping them to understand
the services provided to them and by assisting them to obtain
equitable reimbursement for those services from their insurers
and health plans.
Company
Background
The Founders and Senior Staff of
Emergency Groups' Office provide our clients with the benefits
of training, experience, knowledge and dedication offered
by very few, if any, other competing companies.
This is the second emergency medicine specialized billing
company owned and managed by Del Brault and Jane Brault, RN.
Del Brault is Co-Chief Executive Officer and has a
Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from the University
of Wisconsin. He started billing for emergency physicians in 1976 as President of an emergency medicine billing company located in Michigan.
Jane Brault, R.N. is Co-Chief Executive Officer
and received her nursing education at Michael Reese Medical
Center in Chicago. She joined the Michigan company in 1982
to manage the coding staff, to determine the requirements
for coding and billing in new states, and develop client fee
schedules as well as perform physician documentation education.
The Brault's have been involved in billing and/or consulting with emergency physicians ever since.
Andrea Brault, M.D., FACEP, MMM is
the President and Chief Operating Officer of Emergency Groups'
Office. She completed her emergency medicine residency at
the University of California Irvine and has been practicing since 1994. Andrea joined the Company in 1999 to build the management team and has transitioned to managing
the Company. She holds a Master of Medical Management Degree
from the University of Southern California. This degree focuses
on working with physicians to understand and better manage
the business aspects of medicine.
James R. Blakeman, Senior Vice President,
joined the Company in 2004 after 16 years with one of the
largest emergency physician billing companies in the country.
Jim has particular expertise in coding, quality assurance, policy development, and physician training. He has been actively involved with the reimbursment activities of 3 state ACEP chapters and is a frequent speaker and writer on reimbursement topics in emergency medicine. He teaches a nationally recognized course for emergency physicians called "Issues and Answers About EM Reimbursement and Coding".
Bob Acker is the Director
of Operations. Bob contributes over 25 years of operational
management experience in high profile service organizations.
Prior employment assignments include service as a Senior Executive
for a nationally recognized HMO, and Vice President of Operations
for two large California-based medical billing and practice
management companies. He has a BS in Applied Biology from
the Georgia Institute of Technology and an Executive MBA from
the University of California, Irvine.
Sharon Richardson, R.N. is the Compliance Officer
for Emergency Groups' Office. Sharon has several years of
practical experience in the healthcare industry. She worked
for eight years as an LVN after which she received her R.N.
through the University of New York. Sharon worked 16 years
as a surgical nurse for a plastic surgeon while at the same
time working as a critical care nurse. She joined our organization
in 1999 as a reimbursement coder and transitioned to Compliance
Officer four years later.
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clients' satisfaction, and the results we obtain for
them, is demonstrated by the fact that Emergency Groups'
Office now bills for 1 in every 10 emergency visits
in California. |
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