Jeffrey Bettinger, MD, FACEP
Specialty Principal – Billing/Collections

Dr. Jeffrey Bettinger has been involved in billing and reimbursement for large medical groups for more than 20 years. In the mid-1980s, Dr. Bettinger built a billing and accounts receivable management system for EMG, which later merged with EMSA, the forerunner of InPhyNet Medical Management, Inc. In 1997, InPhyNet merged with MedPartners, and Dr. Bettinger assumed the role of executive vice president of billing and reimbursement for Team Health, the hospital-based physician subsidiary of MedPartners. He remained in this role until February 2000. As vice president of billing and reimbursement for Team Health, Dr. Bettinger directed a billing and accounts receivable operation that billed for more than 4 million encounters annually.

From 2001 to 2008 Dr. Bettinger served as managing member of BSA Healthcare, a consulting firm focused on the enhancing billing processes for medical groups. Dr. Bettinger has worked with a variety of specialties and types of groups. He has worked with most billing software programs and has extensive knowledge of how these systems work.

A graduate of Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia, Dr. Bettinger completed his residency in internal medicine and served as a staff physician, and later as emergency department medical director, for the Emergency Medical Group of Miami (EMG). He is board certified in internal medicine and emergency medicine.

Dr. Bettinger is a former chairman of the Florida College of Emergency Physician's Medical Economic Committee, and he is currently a member of the American College of Emergency Physician's Reimbursement Committee. He was also recently chosen as a Hero of Emergency Medicine by the American College of Emergency Physicians