We are not a billing company. Nothing moves to our platform, because there is no platform. Your practice keeps its systems, its logins, its payer relationships, and every decision about your claims. You get a specialist, not a contract.
myMedCrew is the healthcare arm of CrewBloom, placing remote professionals since 2016. Here's what a medical billing specialist handles day to day, who decides what, and what a seat costs.
When Medical Billing Falls Behind
Most practice owners don't find a billing problem in a report. They find it as a cash-flow dip, a stack of 90-day AR nobody can explain, and denials nobody appealed.
It's rarely a talent problem. The front office is verifying eligibility between phone calls, the biller is wearing three hats, and denials get treated as noise because nobody has the hours to work them as a queue. In an MGMA Stat poll, 60% of medical group leaders said their denial rates rose, and only 11% had managed to bring them back down.
What a Medical Billing Specialist Handles
The work happens in your EHR, so nothing leaves your sight. Your logins, your reports, your data. In a Sermo poll, 30% of physicians named loss of control as the biggest downside of outsourcing billing. A staffing model has nothing to take control of.
Who Decides What
The short version: the crew does the work, your practice owns the outcome.
Your specialist works denials inside your own queue, at your cadence. When one needs a judgment call, they prepare the correction, document the reason, and bring it to your office manager, billing lead or provider. Whether to appeal, write off or rebill is your call, every time.
If you ever raise a performance concern, we step in and mediate.
What a Medical Billing Seat Costs
Billing and coding sit in our specialized tier at $14/hr. The rate is published because a confident operation has nothing to hide about what it charges.
Against a full-time hire, the math is short. A US biller at a $45,000 salary costs about $58,000 loaded once benefits and payroll taxes land. That's before recruiting, PTO cover, and the risk of a resignation mid-quarter. A full-time-equivalent seat at $14/hr runs about $29,000 a year, with sourcing, payroll and replacement already in the number. Part-time seats scale the same rate down.
Rates are hourly and flat. Nothing comes out of your collections.
One more thing before you scope a seat: sourcing and vetting are not billed. No retainer, no search fee. Billing begins when the resource begins.
Built for Small and Mid-Size Practices
The 1-10 provider practice is where billing pressure concentrates: enough volume to lose real money to unworked denials, not enough to justify a billing department. One pediatrician put it plainly on Sermo: "As a private practice it is very hard to keep track of billing, all the new rules and have sufficient personnel to do all of that."
A practice that size usually starts with one specialist, sized to claim volume, and adds a second seat for AR catch-up months or growth. Specialty matters in the match: candidates are screened against your billing environment, whether that's dental and DSO billing, behavioral health, PT and rehab, or a multi-provider group.
Proof
Placements come from a bench that has run billing, AR and verification desks since 2016 under CrewBloom.
Getting a Seat Filled
Placements are pre-vetted before they reach your shortlist, and if one doesn't work out we replace them.
HIPAA-Aligned Infrastructure
Specialists work under HIPAA-aligned infrastructure defined by four controls: MFA on every account, encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access, and audit logging. How that maps to your own obligations is on our HIPAA page.
Frequently asked questions
What does a medical billing specialist do?+
A billing specialist handles the claims desk: entering charges, scrubbing and submitting claims, posting payments, following up on aging AR and preparing denials for resolution. In a managed staffing model the specialist does this inside your own EHR and clearinghouse, on the queue you assign, rather than on a vendor's separate platform.
Is outsourcing medical billing worth it?+
It depends what you are buying. If denials sit above the single-digit benchmark, AR over 90 days keeps growing, or a provider is doing billing work between patients, the gap is usually hours rather than talent, and a dedicated seat closes it. If your current biller keeps denials low and AR current, you may only need coverage for overflow or leave.
How much does a remote medical billing specialist cost?+
myMedCrew places billing specialists at a flat $14/hr. Sourcing and vetting are not billed: there is no retainer and no search fee, and billing begins when the resource begins. The cost tracks hours worked.
Who decides whether to appeal a denial?+
Your practice does. Your specialist triages the denial, prepares the correction and documents the reason, then brings the judgment call to your office manager, billing lead or provider. Decisions about your claims stay inside your practice.
Do I keep using my own EHR and clearinghouse?+
Yes. Your specialist works inside your existing systems under role-based access that you control. There is no platform migration and no change to your payer relationships.
How fast can a billing specialist start?+
Administrative and billing roles deploy in 15 to 20 business days from signed scope, including screening, introductions and systems access.
Ready to scope a seat against your own numbers?
Book a call and bring your denial rate and 90-day AR; the conversation is specific from minute one.