Cerritos, CA and San Antonio, TX (PRWEB) May 14, 2009

Marina Medical announced right now that it has partnered with Emergency Physicians Affiliates in San Antonio, TX (“EPA”) to provide billing and practice management services to EPA’s five emergency departments. EPA’s hospitals consist of Baptist Medical Center, Northeast Baptist, North Central Baptist, Southeast Baptist, and St. Luke’s Baptist, which together have 1,753 licensed beds and 157,000 ED visits annually.

“The Baptist Well being Technique has a proud history of serving the people of San Antonio for more than a century, and given that 2003 the Technique has been owned and operated by Vanguard Well being Systems,” according to Michael Connellan, Chairman and CEO of Marina. “We’re proud to have been selected by EPA to aid preserve these long traditions of quality, patient care and service in South Texas. EPA’s commitment to exceptional patient care, continuous improvement and growth in Texas fits our own profile perfectly.”

According to Timothy N. (“Tim”) Taylor, M.D., FACEP, President of EPA, “Marina was selected following a rigorous national search since of their record of exceptional outcomes, focus on emergency medicine, outstanding coding and physician documentation education, and their digital paperless technology. Marina’s men and women are knowledgeable, responsive and simple to function with, and we really feel actually comfortable with them. We expect to have a quite productive mutual relationship for many years to come.”

EPA has been the emergency medicine partner of selection for the Baptist Well being Method for 35 years, bringing the highest quality of emergency medicine to the growing population of South Texas. Vanguard Wellness Systems, Inc. is a leading national operator of acute care hospitals and outpatient facilities in Texas, Arizona, Illinois and Massachusetts.

Given that 1981, Marina Medical Billing Service, Inc. (http://www.marinabilling.com) has been converting emergency care into compensation for physicians and hospital clients across the nation, and today – as one of the 5 largest firms in its industry in the country – manages more than $ 1 billion a year in emergency medicine claims.

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