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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PFS TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO SUSQUEHANNA HEALTH SYSTEM
PRINCETON, NJ (September 30, 2005)----The PFS Resources Group, a leading provider of interim staffing and recruitment of revenue cycle personnel, announced that the company has signed an agreement with Susquehanna Health System Center to provide patient accounting services.
The announcement was made this week by company president James Yarsinsky, CPAM. PFS Resources Group is an affiliated company of BESLER Consulting. Mr. Yarsinsky said services, which begin October 5, 2005, would include helping the hospital work down their aged receivables.
“The hospital has converted to new patient accounting system and asked for our help in providing skilled patient accounting specialists to work their aged receivables while their staff learned the new system and as they worked the newer accounts on SORIAN,” said Mr. Yarsinsky. “We will deploy six highly seasoned patient financial service specialists to their location. Each has an average of ten years of progressive patient accounting experience.”
About BESLER Consulting
Founded in 1986 to offer reimbursement services to acute care hospitals, BESLER Consulting today provides consulting expertise in many other areas including coding, revenue cycle management, health information, compliance, accreditation, clinical staffing and interim management in a variety of provider settings.
About The PFS Resources Group
The PFS Resources Group provides experienced interim patient financial services personnel and recruitment services for hospitals throughout the United States.
About Susquehanna Health
In July 1994, an alliance was formed among three area hospitals. This alliance, called Susquehanna Health, brought together The Williamsport Hospital & Devine Providence Hospital and Muncy Valley Hospital, along with their subsidiaries into a fully integrated healthcare System.
Susquehanna Health has a total of 282 licensed acute beds and 22 bassinets as well as138 long term care beds. The alliance admits approximately 14,000 patients annually and performs 16,000 outpatient visits each year.