911 Billing Services and Consultant, Inc. of Madisonville, KY specializes in all aspects of EMS and Ambulance Service billing for hospital based operations, municipalities, privately owned services, fire and volunteer services.911 Billing Services & Consultant, Inc. currently employs forty-eight (48) full-time staff, who process over 250,000 calls annually, to care for the needs of their clients. Approximately 80% of the 911 Billing Services team have been with the company five (5) years or more.
Our organizational mission is to ensure that we act in the best interests of our clients in a comprehensive manner. Training and Education of our team, and initial and continued training of our clients is paramount to the continued development of our mission.
A few of the ways that we validate the knowledge of our staff is:
- A retainer with the National EMS Industry legal firm of Page, Wolfberg, & Wirth. PWW provides training to our staff in legal and ethical practices in Ambulance Medical billing and compliance services. In addition to in-house training that 911 Billing Services provides to its team and the training provided in cooperation with Page, Wolfberg, and Wirth, we also regularly send our team members to conferences around the country to ensure our ability to lead the industry in innovation and compliance practices.
- Validation through the National Academy of Ambulance Compliance as Certified Ambulance Coders (CAC).
- Our billing leadership team includes individuals certified through the National Academy of Ambulance Compliance as Certified Ambulance Compliance Officers (CACO) and Certified Ambulance Privacy Officers (CAPO).
Billing Services Management Team
Linda Basham
Founder/CEO
Linda Basham CEO
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Beverly Pinkston
COO & CCO
Beverly Pinkston COO & CCO
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Scott Basham
CFO
Billy Basham
Co-Founder
Levi Worth
Business Development
Rachel Sanders
General Manager
James Simmons
IT Manager
Cheryl Nantz
Director of Billing Support
Brittany Knowles
Director of Billing and Client Accounting
Sarah Earl
Director of Imports and Implementation
Shannon Pool
Director of Coding
Samantha Althouse
Director of Patient Accounts,
Medicare, and Contract Billing
Scott Basham CFO
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Linda Basham
CEO
Wayne G. Nielsen President and Managing Partner
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Mr. Nielsen is the Managing Partner of W.G. Nielsen & Co. and has more than 30 years of investment banking experience. Since 1996, he has specialized in providing customized mergers and acquisitions services for privately held middle-market companies.
Prior to founding W.G. Nielsen & Co., Mr. Nielsen was Executive Vice President of Kirkpatrick Pettis, a subsidiary of Mutual of Omaha, where he founded and managed the firm’s Rocky Mountain investment banking operations, including corporate and public finance, retail and institutional sales, trading activities and money management services. Before that, Mr. Nielsen managed United Bank of Denver's investment banking activities.
He began his financial career as a commercial loan analyst with Midland Bank, a Norwest Bank, and then moved to Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. as a portfolio investment analyst.
Mr. Nielsen holds a bachelor’s degree in Communications from Pacific Union College and an MBA from Webster University.
Beverly Pinkston
COO & CCO
Ronald M. Barber Executive Vice President
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Mr. Barber joined W.G. Nielsen & Co. in August 2002. Prior to joining the firm, he consulted for several clients of W.G. Nielsen & Co. Mr. Barber previously served as CEO of Corybant, Inc., a company that develops Active Information Models for enterprise applications and social networking. Prior to Corybant, he was a founder and served as Executive Vice President of Sales and International Operations for TomTec Imaging Systems, a manufacturer of medical imaging and information management systems. In addition, Mr. Barber has extensive experience in building corporate sales and marketing organizations, as well as hands-on experience in the biomedical and medical laboratory fields.
Mr. Barber received his Medical Technology degree in Pathology from Bethesda Memorial Hospital/Florida Atlantic University.
Scott Basham
CFO
Michael D. Harris Vice President
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Mr. Harris joined W.G. Nielsen & Co. in July 2016. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Harris was the Controller for DataGryd Data Centers, a start-up urban data center located in TriBeCa and funded by a large, publicly-traded private equity firm. Prior to DataGryd Data Centers, Mr. Harris worked as a Senior Associate within the valuation practice of Duff & Phelps’ New York office where he advised clients on the valuation of tangible and intangible assets on a pre- and post-merger basis. He also performed investment valuations for large private equity groups and provided merger & acquisition advisory services. Additionally, Mr. Harris has investment management experience from roles at Bear Stearns and KM Capital Management. Mr. Harris has extensive financial modeling experience, having taught financial modeling to incoming investment banking analysts at several bulge bracket banks in New York while working with Training The Street. He also served as a Teaching Assistant for a graduate level valuation and finance course taught through the Harvard University Extension School.
Mr. Harris earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and his M.B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also completed graduate studies at Handelshögskolan (Stockholm School of Economics), and has passed the CFA Level I and Level II Exams.