ELS Medical Billing Group

09/11/2026

Today, we remember the lives lost, the heroes who answered the call, and the families forever changed. 🇺🇸❤️

September 11, 2001 — Never Forget.

09/10/2026

🚨 8(a) Applicants — Check Your Email & MySBA Certification Portal!

A number of 8(a) applicants received requests today to review, update, or provide additional information on their applications.

If you currently have an 8(a) application pending, make sure you are checking both your email and MySBA Certification portal regularly. Some requests are giving applicants 45 days to respond, and you definitely don’t want to miss an important deadline after putting so much time into the process.

Just sharing in case this helps another small business owner stay ahead of their application. 💼

09/04/2026

🚨 Your claims are being paid… but are you being paid CORRECTLY?

Getting a claim paid is only part of the revenue cycle.

One of the areas healthcare organizations can easily overlook is whether the reimbursement they received was actually accurate.

💰 Underpayments
📊 Fee schedule discrepancies
🧾 Incorrect contractual adjustments
🔎 Payment posting errors
📑 EOB/ERA discrepancies

Over time, even small reimbursement issues can add up to significant revenue leakage.

I just published a new educational video on the ELS Medical Billing Group, LLC blog where I break down why “PAID” doesn’t always mean PAID CORRECTLY and what healthcare organizations should be paying attention to within their revenue cycle.

As ELS continues to grow, one of my goals is not only to provide services, but also to educate, share knowledge, and help healthcare organizations better understand and protect their revenue.

🎥 Read the blog and watch the full educational session below.

If you’re a healthcare provider, practice administrator, EMS organization, or healthcare business owner, this is one you’ll want to watch.

ELS Medical Billing Group, LLC
Revenue Cycle Management | Medical Billing | Provider Enrollment & Credentialing | EMS Billing | Audit & Compliance

A claim marked “paid” doesn't necessarily mean your organization was reimbursed correctly.Healthcare providers can lose significant revenue through underpayments, incorrect contractual adjustments, inaccurate payment posting, and reimbursement that does not align with applicable payer contracts ...

09/03/2026

A Simple Thank You. 💙

Today, I don’t want to promote a service, announce an accomplishment, or talk about what’s next.

I simply want to say THANK YOU.

Thank you to every client who has trusted me and ELS Medical Billing Group.

Thank you to every business owner who has allowed me to be a part of their journey.

Thank you to every person who has referred someone to me, shared my company, recommended my services, encouraged me, supported me, or simply believed in what I’m building.

As my company continues to grow, I’m realizing more and more that the most rewarding part of this journey isn’t just the growth itself.

It’s the impact.

It’s helping a business owner get through a process that once felt overwhelming.

It’s helping a healthcare organization strengthen its operations.

It’s helping someone move one step closer to opening their doors, getting enrolled, getting paid, becoming compliant, or simply understanding what comes next.

The biggest word behind everything I do is HELP.

I want to help.

I want my knowledge, experience, education, and company to make someone else’s journey a little easier. And knowing that the work I do can positively affect someone’s business, livelihood, employees, patients, and future is incredibly rewarding.

ELS Medical Billing Group is growing, but behind that growth are real people who trusted me with something important to them.

I don’t take that lightly.

So to everyone who has supported me, worked with me, referred me, encouraged me, or spoken my company’s name in a room I wasn’t in:

Thank you. Truly. 💙

Every opportunity, every referral, every client, and every word of encouragement has been a part of this journey.

And as ELS continues to grow, my mission remains simple:

Keep learning. Keep serving. Keep helping.

— Ericia Smith
Founder & CEO
ELS Medical Billing Group, LLC

08/26/2026

🚨 NEMT PROVIDERS: PLEASE KNOW WHAT YOU’RE PAYING FOR BEFORE YOU PAY A “CREDENTIALING COMPANY.”

I’m seeing something in this industry that NEMT owners need to be aware of.

If someone tells you, “We can credential your NEMT company directly with Medicare, Medicaid, and all the major commercial insurance companies,” please ask questions before handing over your money.

A traditional Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) company is NOT the same thing as a Medicare-enrolled ambulance supplier.

Medicare generally does not enroll ordinary NEMT transportation companies simply because they transport patients to medical appointments.

Medicaid NEMT is also heavily dependent on the state and its transportation delivery model. In many markets, transportation is coordinated through large transportation brokers and networks, and smaller NEMT companies participate by contracting with those networks rather than simply credentialing directly with every payer.

Companies such as Modivcare and SafeRide Health operate transportation networks that contract with health plans and government programs and build networks of transportation providers.

That distinction matters.

Before you pay anyone thousands of dollars for “Medicare and Medicaid credentialing,” ask them:

👉 What exact provider type are you enrolling me as?
👉 What enrollment application are you submitting?
👉 Will my company receive its own billing privileges with the payer?
👉 Will I bill the payer directly, or am I actually joining a transportation broker/network?
👉 What state-specific Medicaid requirements apply to my company?
👉 Can you show me the payer’s actual enrollment requirements?

If they cannot clearly answer those questions, do not write the check.

There is a major difference between NEMT contracting, Medicaid transportation network participation, commercial payer contracting, and Medicare ambulance enrollment.

A legitimate credentialing professional should explain that difference before taking your money — not after.

NEMT owners work too hard to build their companies to lose thousands of dollars paying someone for an enrollment that may not even exist for their provider type.

Do your homework. Ask for the regulations. Ask for the provider type. Ask how you will actually get paid.

Credentialing isn’t about submitting applications.
It’s about knowing which applications you’re actually eligible to submit.

08/18/2026

Bidding may be free. Competing isn’t.

That’s one of the lessons I’m continuing to learn in government contracting.

Some opportunities are fairly simple to pursue. You prepare your response, upload it electronically, hit submit, and you’re done.

Then there are the others. 😅

The solicitation I’m preparing now requires one original proposal plus six copies to be physically submitted.

That means printing. Paper. Ink. Tabs. Folders or binders. Packaging. Shipping. And, most importantly, time.

And you spend all of that before knowing whether you’re going to win the contract.

It reminded me of something important for small businesses entering the government contracting space:

We have to be strategic about the bids we pursue.

Not every solicitation deserves a response simply because we’re capable of doing the work. I have to ask myself:

Does this opportunity align with my company’s services and long-term goals?

Can we perform the contract successfully?

Is the potential return worth the time and resources required to compete?

Do we have a legitimate chance of winning?

Because while it may not cost anything to click “download” on an RFP, putting together a responsive, compliant, competitive proposal absolutely has a cost.

But here’s the other side of it:

Sometimes you have to spend money to make money.

A few hundred dollars spent pursuing the right opportunity could potentially lead to a contract worth tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.

There’s no guarantee.

That’s business.

So I’m learning not to chase every opportunity.

I’m learning to strategically invest in the right ones.

Now, back to printing these copies. 😂📄

08/11/2026

🚨 SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS… ARE Y’ALL PAYING ATTENTION TO GOVCON?

We spend so much time trying to figure out how to make money locally, find the next client, run another ad, or chase another lead…

Meanwhile, the federal government awarded approximately $179 BILLION in prime contracts to SMALL BUSINESSES in FY2025. 🤯💰

Yes. $179 BILLION.

According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, small businesses received nearly 28% of federal prime contracting dollars in FY2025 — exceeding the federal government’s 23% small-business contracting goal.

Read that again.

The government is literally required to create opportunities for small businesses — businesses like mine and yours.

And they are buying EVERYTHING.

Healthcare services.
Medical billing and revenue cycle management.
Consulting.
IT.
Staffing.
Construction.
Transportation.
Administrative support.
Training.
Professional services.

The list goes on.

So while everybody is fighting over the same local customers, I’m learning how to position my company to compete for a piece of a $179 BILLION small-business federal marketplace.

That’s why I keep telling small business owners:

👉🏽 STOP THINKING TOO SMALL.

Your next customer might not be another individual or local company.

Your next customer could be the United States Government. 🇺🇸

GovCon isn’t quick money. You have to learn the process, become procurement-ready, build relationships, submit bids, hear “no,” and KEEP GOING.

But the money is being spent.

The question is: Is your business positioned to compete for it?

08/10/2026

💡 Monday RCM Insight: A Denied Claim Often Started Long Before It Reached the Payer.

One of the biggest misconceptions in healthcare is that revenue cycle problems begin in the billing department.

In reality, many payment delays and denials can be traced back to the front end of the revenue cycle.

A missing authorization.
Incorrect insurance information.
Incomplete documentation.
Credentialing or enrollment issues.
Medical necessity requirements that weren’t addressed.
A small demographic error that follows the claim all the way to the payer.

By the time the claim reaches billing, the problem may already exist.

At ELS Medical Billing Group, LLC, we believe strong revenue cycle management means looking beyond claim submission. It means identifying where revenue is being interrupted, correcting the process, and helping healthcare organizations build a stronger path from patient encounter to payment.

Because the goal isn’t simply to bill more claims.

The goal is to build a healthier revenue cycle.

🏥 Medical Billing & Revenue Cycle Management
🚑 EMS & Ambulance Billing
📋 Provider Enrollment & Credentialing
🔎 A/R, Denials & Appeals
✅ Audit & Compliance Support
📊 Healthcare Consulting

Start the week by asking one important question:

Where is revenue slipping through the cracks in your organization?

ELS Medical Billing Group, LLC
Revenue Cycle Solutions Built for Healthcare.

08/03/2026

📣 Introducing Healthcare Business Consulting at ELS Medical Billing Group, LLC

Are you looking to start, grow, or strengthen a business in the healthcare industry?

ELS Medical Billing Group, LLC now offers Healthcare Business Consulting Services designed to help healthcare entrepreneurs and organizations navigate the business, operational, and administrative side of healthcare.

Whether you’re starting from the ground up or looking to take an existing company to the next level, we can assist with:

• Healthcare business startup guidance
• Provider enrollment & credentialing
• Revenue cycle and medical billing operations
• EMS & ambulance business consulting
• NEMT-to-ambulance transition consulting
• Compliance and operational readiness
• Workflow and process development
• Payer enrollment strategy
• Business growth and revenue strategies
• Government contracting readiness

Healthcare is more than providing great care—it also requires strong systems, compliant operations, and a strategy for sustainable growth.

At ELS Medical Billing Group, LLC, our goal is to help healthcare businesses build the foundation they need to operate confidently, remain compliant, and grow.

If you’re ready to start a healthcare business or strengthen the one you already have, let’s connect.

📩 Contact ELS Medical Billing Group, LLC to schedule a healthcare business consulting session.

07/30/2026

Sometimes the biggest obstacle standing between where you are and where you want to be isn’t a lack of talent—it’s fear.

There comes a moment when you have to stop waiting for the perfect time, stop doubting yourself, and take the step anyway.

Believe in your ideas.
Believe in your abilities.
Believe that your hard work today can create opportunities tomorrow.

Faith doesn’t always mean you’ll know exactly how everything will work out. Sometimes it simply means having the courage to move forward even when you can’t see the entire path.

Whether you’re starting a business, changing careers, going back to school, or chasing a dream you’ve carried for years, don’t let fear make the decision for you.

You don’t have to have all the answers today. You just have to be willing to take the next step.

Keep learning. Keep growing. Keep showing up.

Your future is built by the decisions you’re willing to make today.

Believe in yourself. You may be capable of far more than you realize.