I began my career as a school teacher and then took an 11 year career break to be home with my two sons. My husband at the time was an emergency room physician who was independently contracted with the hospital. Historically, hospitals put both the facility and the physician charges on one bill but my husband's hospital billing guidelines changed so that the hospital based physicians had to bill for their own services. There was no one in the marketplace prepared to bill for emergency services so it became my responsibility to "figure it out".
In order to successfully process and manage thousands of medical bills it was necessary to purchase a very expensive computer system, and to help pay for this system, I had to find other medical groups in the same situation. Thus, my company, Marina Medical Billing Service was born. It is now one of the largest medical billing services, specializing in emergency medicine, in the country. I rented the closest office space I could find but worked as much as I could from home. When my children got older, I was able to focus and work more aggressively on expanding the business. I'm now about to retire from my company after 29 years of active management. It has been a very interesting and fulfilling entrepreneurial career path.
Marsha Besley-Connelan
Founder and President,
Marina Medical Billing Service
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