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Bookkeeping for NEMT and medical transportation companies: how LedgerBPO runs it
Bookkeeping for NEMT & medical transportation companies means reconciling broker remittances from Modivcare, MTM and regional brokers trip by trip, tracking fuel, insurance and vehicle costs per loaded mile, and keeping driver pay tied to completed trips. LedgerBPO gives your company a named accountant who works from TripMaster or RouteGenie exports inside your own QuickBooks Online file, with a BAA in place because trip records contain patient information.
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What we handle
Bookkeeping for NEMT & medical transportation companies means reconciling broker remittances from Modivcare, MTM and regional brokers trip by trip, tracking fuel, insurance and vehicle costs per loaded mile, and keeping driver pay tied to completed trips. LedgerBPO gives your company a named accountant who works from TripMaster or RouteGenie exports inside your own QuickBooks Online file, with a BAA in place because trip records contain patient information.
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Billing and books together
Broker remittances matched to trips, with short pays and denials listed weekly
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Reconciled every month
Fuel, insurance, maintenance and driver pay tracked per vehicle and per loaded mile
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What you see
One team for trip billing, dispute follow-up and month-end books
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A named accountant, a backup and a team lead
Inside your own software, on a fixed close calendar, with a reply from a person within 1 business day. Call +1-657-777-0006 or start a quote.
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NEMT accounting challenges
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Brokers pay per trip, not per invoice
A broker remittance can list several hundred trips, each with its own base rate, per-mile amount, wheelchair or stretcher modifier and, sometimes, a denial code. A provider running 40 trips a day produces roughly 1,000 remittance lines a month that must be matched to dispatch records before anyone knows what was actually paid.
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Trip disputes have short windows
Each broker contract sets a window for disputing an unpaid or short-paid trip, and once it closes the revenue is gone. Missing signatures, odometer readings or pickup times are the usual reasons, so the accounting question and the dispatch question have to be answered in the same week.
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Fuel and insurance move faster than rates
Broker rates are set by contract for a year or more, while diesel and gasoline prices change weekly and commercial auto premiums are renewed annually. When fuel represents 10 to 15 cents of every revenue dollar, a 20 percent price swing can erase the margin on ambulatory trips before the next rate review.
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Driver classification and pay models
Some companies pay drivers hourly, some per trip, and some use owner-operators on 1099s. The IRS and state agencies look at control and economic dependence, and a misclassification found in an audit can mean back payroll taxes for every driver on the roster.
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Vehicles are the balance sheet
A 12-vehicle fleet may carry a dozen loans or leases, each with its own interest, term and depreciation schedule. Vehicles are usually depreciated over five years for tax purposes, and without a fixed-asset register the P&L understates the real cost of every mile.
What we handle for NEMT and medical transportation companies
Trip-level remittance matching
Every Modivcare, MTM or regional-broker remittance is matched to completed trips in TripMaster or RouteGenie, with short pays and denials listed for dispute inside the contract window.
Cost per loaded mile
Fuel-card statements, maintenance, tolls and insurance are coded by vehicle so you see cost per loaded mile and margin by broker and by trip type.
Driver pay tied to trips
Hourly, per-trip and owner-operator settlements are reconciled to completed-trip counts each pay period and booked by driver type.
Facility and private-pay invoicing
Dialysis centers, hospitals, nursing facilities and private-pay riders receive invoices with trip detail, and reminders go out under your company's name through BillingLine.
Fixed-asset and loan register
Each vehicle carries its purchase price, loan, interest split and depreciation schedule, so the balance sheet and the P&L reflect what the fleet really costs.
HIPAA-aware books under a BAA
Trip manifests contain rider names and destinations, so we sign a BAA, train staff, and keep PHI out of ledger memos and shared spreadsheets.
NEMT software we work in
- QuickBooks Online
- Gusto
- ADP
- Bill.com
- TripMaster
- RouteGenie
- Modivcare provider portal
- MTM provider portal
- All 50 platforms
NEMT compliance notes
Broker contracts (Modivcare, MTM and regional brokers)
Each broker contract defines rate tables by trip type and mileage band, documentation required for payment, the dispute window and audit rights. We keep the current rate table in the billing workflow, check remittances against it, and log every dispute with its deadline so revenue is not lost to a missed date.
HIPAA
Trip records identify riders, pickup addresses and often the treating facility, which makes them protected health information. We sign a BAA, staff are HIPAA-trained, portal access is role-limited with MFA, and ledger entries reference trip or invoice numbers rather than rider names.
State Medicaid NEMT rules
States set driver background-check, vehicle inspection, trip-log and record-retention requirements for Medicaid transportation, and brokers pass those obligations through their contracts. We file supporting cost records so a state or broker audit can be answered from the books, and we flag lapses in insurance or inspection renewals that would suspend billing.
Worker classification
How drivers are paid and controlled determines whether they are employees or contractors under IRS and state tests. We book pay according to the classification you and your counsel have chosen, track 1099 settlements separately from W-2 payroll, and prepare the year-end 1099-NEC data for owner-operators.
KPIs we report
| KPI | Why it matters |
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| Trips billed within 72 hours of completion | Broker payment clocks start at submission, so a trip that sits in dispatch for two weeks is two weeks of float you are funding. |
| Unpaid or short-paid trips older than 30 days by broker | This shows which broker is slow and which trips will fall outside the dispute window if nobody acts. |
| Revenue per vehicle per day | A vehicle that is insured, financed and inspected but idle is the most expensive thing in the company. |
| Cost per loaded mile | Fuel, maintenance, insurance and driver pay divided by paid miles tells you whether a broker's rate table still works. |
| Remittance variance by broker | The gap between what dispatch says you earned and what the broker paid is the number to chase every week. |
Case study
1 state to 5 states
Case studyHow a NEMT provider scaled from 1 state to 5 with an outsourced back office
A non-emergency medical transportation provider in the southern US ran a single-state operation with one office manager handling trip billing, broker portals and the books. Each new state meant a new Medicaid broker, new claim formats and new timely-filing rules, and the office could not absorb the volume. The owner engaged LedgerBPO for NEMT billing, insurance follow-up calls and accounts receivable, with a named billing agent, a backup and a team lead working inside the provider's own dispatch software and QuickBooks Online. Over the engagement the provider expanded from 1 state to 5 states without building an in-house billing department. The same back-office playbook was repeated for each state contract, so growth did not depend on hiring and training local staff every time a contract was won.
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Services for NEMT and medical transportation companies
- Outsourced bookkeeping for nemt & medical transportation companies
- Invoicing & billing for nemt & medical transportation companies
- Accounts receivable management for nemt & medical transportation companies
- Accounts payable processing for nemt & medical transportation companies
- Bank & credit-card reconciliation for nemt & medical transportation companies
- Month-end close for nemt & medical transportation companies
- Monthly financial reporting for nemt & medical transportation companies
- Catch-up bookkeeping for nemt & medical transportation companies
- Payroll processing support for nemt & medical transportation companies
- Cash application & remittance posting for nemt & medical transportation companies
- Payment processor & marketplace reconciliation for nemt & medical transportation companies
- KPI dashboards for nemt & medical transportation companies
- Remote controller review for nemt & medical transportation companies
- Accounting software setup & migration for nemt & medical transportation companies
Frequently asked questions
What does bookkeeping for a NEMT company include?
It includes matching broker remittances to completed trips, invoicing facilities and private-pay riders, coding fuel, maintenance, insurance and tolls by vehicle, booking driver pay by type, maintaining a fixed-asset and loan register for the fleet, and reconciling every bank and card account monthly. You receive a P&L by broker and cost per loaded mile with each close.
Can you reconcile Modivcare and MTM remittances?
Yes. We download remittance files from each broker portal, match them line by line to trips in TripMaster, RouteGenie or your dispatch export, and separate paid, short-paid and denied trips. Short pays and denials are listed with the reason and the dispute deadline so your dispatcher or our billing agent can act before the window closes.
Do you work with our dispatch software?
We work from the exports your dispatch system produces, whether that is TripMaster, RouteGenie or a spreadsheet from a smaller tool. Completed-trip reports become the revenue source, driver trip counts feed payroll reconciliation, and vehicle assignments drive cost coding. You keep your dispatch system; we do not ask you to change it.
How do you handle drivers paid per trip alongside hourly drivers?
Each pay type is reconciled to its own source: hourly drivers to timesheets, per-trip drivers to completed-trip counts, and owner-operators to settlement statements. Pay is booked by driver type so margin per trip type is visible. Payroll taxes for W-2 drivers and 1099 settlements for contractors are tracked separately and reported correctly at year-end.
Why does a transportation company need a BAA?
Because trip manifests, broker portals and facility invoices contain rider names, addresses and treating facilities, which are protected health information under HIPAA. As a business associate handling that data, we sign a BAA, train staff, restrict access and keep PHI out of ledger memos. It is the same standard we apply to the clinics and agencies we serve.
What does bookkeeping for a NEMT company cost?
Pricing depends on volume and scope, so we send a custom quote within 1 business day. As a market reference, US outsourced bookkeeping generally runs $150 to $1,600 per month (indinero, 2026); NEMT companies with several brokers and trip-level remittance matching tend to fall in the upper part of that range because of the line volume.
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