Case Study: Essential Medical achieves 25-day average A/R and more time for patient care with Tebra

Keeping the Focus on Patient Care with Kareo

Essential Medical is a family medicine practice started by [NAME REDACTED], FNP-C, who wanted to provide personalized, independent care to her local community. As a solo startup she faced the usual small-business hurdles—funding, attracting patients, and managing billing, scheduling, and documentation—while having limited prior exposure to billing and scheduling systems.

She implemented Kareo Billing and Kareo Clinical, used Kareo training and support (plus help from a family medical biller), and began seeing patients after a few months of setup. The practice now submits claims daily with virtually no denials, averages 25 days in A/R, receives Blue Cross/Blue Shield payments in about two weeks via EFT, and has added a scheduler—freeing her to focus on patient care and gradually build the practice.

Essential Medical

Kristi Wallace

Essential Medical