Chamberlin Edmonds Partners With The Beryl Companies To Help Pre-Qualify Medicaid MCO Members For Additional Programs

Chamberlin Edmonds has selected The Beryl Companies to provide inbound and outbound call center services with trained advisors to assist in the company’s pre-qualifying efforts for Medicaid Managed Care Organizations (MCO) members.

Chamberlin Edmonds is a leading provider of specialized patient eligibility and provides revenue recovery services to hospitals, and disability conversion services to governments and managed care organizations nationwide. The company assists qualifying disabled members of Medicaid MCOs to apply for and receive additional benefits from programs such as Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability.

“We set out to find a call center partner with intelligent, highly trained, professional representatives that could understand the complexities of federal disability programs,” said Brian Andrews, Vice President, MCO Operations for Chamberlin Edmonds. “We are confident in Beryl’s extensive experience serving managed care organizations.”

“Chamberlin Edmonds is well-respected in the health care community,” said Paul Speigelman, CEO of Beryl. “We are pleased to know that our work will help those in need obtain additional health care resources to improve their well-being. We also will be helping them increase the number of qualified Medicaid MCO members who receive additional federal disability benefits that will, in turn, increase their per member per month revenues.”

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Chamberlin Edmonds serves as patient advocates and provides revenue recovery services to hospitals, and disability conversion services to governments and managed care organizations nationwide. The company guides disabled patients through complex application processes to obtain benefits from federal, state and community programs. Chamberlin Edmonds has nearly 20 years of experience with nine regional offices in the U.S. and more than 500 employees. To learn more about Chamberlin Edmonds, visit www.chamberlinedmonds.com.

Since 1985, more than 500 hospitals, hospital systems, insurance plans and other healthcare organizations have trusted their customers to The Beryl Companies. In that time, Beryl’s call advisors have served more than 16 million callers by providing physician/service referrals, health information, telephone nurse triage and class/seminar registration to hospital callers and enrollment and benefit information to insurance plan members. A million more have interacted with Beryl via email and the Internet. The Dallas Business Journal has named Beryl one of the “Best Places to Work” in the Dallas/Fort Worth area for three consecutive years. More information about Beryl is available at www.beryl.net.