Operational for more than 20 years, Beacon Medical Services is a physician-owned and directed company that provides billing, coding and practice management services to emergency physician groups. It also offers various consulting services. The company works in coordination with hospital information technology departments to collect various data, including patient demographic and insurance information, care provided to patients and admitting, consulting and referring physician names. Beacon Medical Services also provides charge capture, insurance and demographic verification, electronic billing and remittance processing and bi-lingual customer services. It additionally offers lockbox payment processing, secondary claims submission, claim denial management and resubmission, financial reporting and physician productivity analysis services.