Billing agents charge like it's 1995.
Meritum doesn't.
Alberta's self-serve medical billing platform. Flat monthly rate, full control, built for physicians who are done overpaying.
How much is your billing agent actually costing you?
That's what you're paying for someone to submit claims you could submit yourself, with a platform that checks every governing rule before anything goes out.
The Money Argument
You're losing thousands of dollars a year and you know it.
The billing agent model charges a percentage of your collections. That made sense twenty years ago, when someone was physically keying every claim into a terminal. It doesn't make sense now. A rural GP billing $400,000 annually is handing somewhere between $12,000 and $20,000 to a billing agent every year for a task that modern software handles in a fraction of the time, with better accuracy. Meritum is $199 a month for your first year. You don't need a calculator to see the gap, but we built one anyway.
The Control Argument
Your revenue data shouldn't live in someone else's head.
When your billing runs through an agent, you're operating on their timeline, their error rates, and their availability. You find out about a rejection pattern when they mention it; if they mention it at all. Meritum puts your claims, your assessments, your PCPCM panel status, your rejection analytics, and your revenue patterns in front of you in real time. Not at the end of the month in a PDF someone emails you, but on your dashboard, the moment it matters. And if you ever decide to leave, your data leaves with you: full export, no charge, no questions. It's your data, not a digital hostage.
The Competence Argument
We don't add provinces. We learn them.
Meritum isn't a US billing platform with a Canadian checkbox bolted on. It was built from the ground up for how Canadian physicians actually bill. For Alberta, that means AHCIP fee-for-service claims, WCB Alberta, RRNP auto-calculation, PCPCM eligibility tracking, the Thursday submission cycle, and every governing rule in the Schedule of Medical Benefits encoded into a pre-submission rules engine, backed by an advice engine that identifies missed codes and modifiers across your billing patterns. AHCIP and WCB billing both work for every physician on the platform, regardless of which EMR you're on or how your system happens to be configured. The specificity isn't a feature we're marketing; it's the reason we exist.
Your billing week, automated. Your clinical workflow, untouched.
Alberta Health processes fee-for-service claims on a weekly Thursday cycle. Meritum is built around it. The goal is simple: capture claims with as little disruption to your clinical day as possible, then let the platform handle everything from rules checking and billing optimisation to submission.
Step 1: Capture claims as you go
Meritum can import encounters from your EMR through system exports, so you don't re-enter what you've already documented. For ED shifts or after-hours work, mobile claim entry captures the patient, the codes, and the timestamps at the bedside. The claim is queued the moment it's entered, with no paper billing sheets and no gaps in your record.
Step 2: Rules check before submission
Before anything leaves, every claim is validated against the applicable AHCIP governing rules: modifier eligibility, duplicate detection, time-period checks, age-based benefits, and RRNP premiums. Issues get flagged for your review, and clean claims are cleared for submission. Beyond the rules check, the advice engine identifies codes and modifiers you may have missed, so the revenue you're entitled to is the revenue you're actually claiming.
Step 3: Thursday submission
Your validated claims are submitted to Alberta Health via H-Link on the Thursday cycle, without manual batching or last-minute scrambling.
Step 4: Assessment and tracking
When assessments come back, Meritum matches them to your submitted claims. You see paid, held, and refused statuses in your dashboard, with the reason codes translated into plain language so you can act on them immediately.
If this looks like what you're already doing manually, it is. Except the rules checking, the submission, and the reconciliation happen without you thinking about them.
"What if I make a billing error?"
That's the point of the rules engine. Every claim goes through it before it leaves Meritum, checked against every applicable AHCIP governing rule: modifier eligibility, time-period requirements, duplicate services, and age-based restrictions. If something's wrong, you'll know before the claim goes out, not six weeks later when a refusal comes back. Beyond catching errors, the advice engine identifies codes and modifiers you may have missed; you're not just avoiding rejections, you're capturing revenue you might otherwise leave on the table.
"I don't have time to learn new software."
Onboarding takes about ten minutes. You enter your practitioner ID, your practice location, and your specialty; Meritum configures your rules engine from there. You can import encounters from your EMR through a simple file export, and the Thursday submission cycle runs on its own. Mobile claim entry works from your phone. The learning curve is closer to switching pharmacies than switching EMRs.
"What about my patients' data?"
Meritum is compliant with the Alberta Health Information Act. Your data is hosted in Canada, in DigitalOcean's Toronto region, and it stays there. You sign an Information Manager Agreement under HIA s.66 before your first claim goes out, so the regulatory work is already done. The founder also runs an information security practice, which means Meritum was built with security as its foundation rather than as a feature added after the fact.
"What if I want to leave?"
Then you leave, and your data comes with you. Meritum provides a full export of your claims, assessments, and analytics at no charge and with no questions asked. Your billing history is yours; we don't hold it hostage to keep you on the platform. If you stay, it should be because Meritum is worth what you're paying for it, not because leaving is too painful.
"What if I need help?"
Email support with a one-business-day response commitment, and a help centre with Alberta-specific billing guidance rather than generic articles rewritten from US healthcare content. If you run into a governing rule question or a claim rejection you don't understand, you're talking to someone who knows what H-Link is and why your Thursday batch matters.
Join the first 100 physicians on Meritum.
$199/month for your first 12 months, at a flat rate with no percentage taken off the top. Cancel anytime.
The early bird rate is for physicians who are willing to be early. You get a lower price, and we get your feedback. When the 100 spots fill, the rate goes to $279/month for new signups, but your rate stays locked for the full 12 months regardless.
You already know you're overpaying.
Start today, cancel anytime. Your first year is $199/month, and the math only gets better from there.