Indiana healthcare accounting that shows what you actually collect.
Physician, dental, and specialty practices across the IU Health, Parkview, and Deaconess ecosystems collect far less than they bill — and the gap is the whole story. We set up insurance-payer reconciliation, billed-vs-collected by provider, HIPAA-aware bookkeeping, and multi-provider payroll with county-LIT withholding — all in your own QuickBooks file.
Payer reconciliation, per-provider books, payroll — delivered by TechBrot, in your own QuickBooks file.
By TechBrot · Published · Updated
State rule
Indiana rule: sales tax applies to bandages, splints and other medical supplies a licensed practitioner consumes in professional use, and if no tax is charged the practitioner owes use tax, remitted to the Department; QuickBooks accrues it on supply bills. Source: Indiana DOR, Information Bulletin #48.
Indiana · HealthcareNavigation, not an office
What you can check before you sign
Fixed fee, written first
Your own QuickBooks file
No hourly billing
If your file needs our paid diagnostic first, its fee is credited in full against the cleanup. Either way, you get a fixed fee in writing before any work starts.
§ 01 · The short version
The short version.
§ The short version
Indiana healthcare accounting from TechBrot shows what each provider bills against what actually lands in the bank: insurance payers reconciled, contractual write-offs posted, per-provider books and multi-provider payroll with county income tax, in your own QuickBooks file, for a monthly fee of $500–$2,500+/mo. Use tax on consumed medical supplies is accrued on every supply bill.
They took something that felt overwhelming to me as a first-year business owner and made it simple.
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§ 02 · Where the books break
Three places Indiana practices lose the numbers.
Busy practices leak revenue when these go unmanaged. Knowing which one you’re in tells us where to start.
Collections are a mystery
No payer reconciliation.
Charges, allowed amounts, and deposits never tie together, so you can’t see how much of what you billed actually arrived or which payer is slow or underpaying. The fix is insurance-payer reconciliation — billed vs. collected by payer with contractual write-offs posted — so real collections, not gross charges, drive the books and you spot leakage early.
Provider economics blur
No per-provider tracking.
When every provider’s production and collections fold into one practice total, compensation and partner decisions get made on blended numbers that hide who actually drives revenue. The fix is per-provider tracking of production and collections, so comp formulas, productivity, and partner economics rest on real figures.
Payroll & data risk
County-LIT & handling gaps.
Providers and staff commuting across counties each carry a different county-LIT rate, and patient-adjacent financial data demands careful handling. Map the county codes wrong and payroll won’t reconcile; handle data loosely and you create risk. The fix is county-LIT codes mapped per person and strict, HIPAA-aware data-handling discipline on every file we touch.
§ 03 · What TechBrot handles
How we keep an Indiana practice’s books.
Every engagement is scoped to your providers and payers, delivered in your own QuickBooks file by your TechBrot team, with every close reviewed by a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor with confidentiality discipline.
01 · Payer recon
Insurance-payer reconciliation
Billed vs. collected tracked by payer, contractual adjustments and write-offs posted, and deposits reconciled to the practice-management system — so collections are real.
Strict data-handling and confidentiality discipline on every file — your practice remains the covered entity; we keep financial records clean and access controlled.
Provider and staff payroll mapped to each person’s county-of-residence LIT rate via Form WH-4, from the current DOR list, so payroll reconciles across commuters.
QuickBooks Online & Desktop — the ledger of record
Athenahealth / Kareo (Tebra) — practice-management deposits reconciled to QuickBooks
DrChrono / SimplePractice — billing and collections to the books
Dentrix / Open Dental — dental practice-management reconciliation
Clearinghouse remittance (ERA/835) reconciled to payer deposits
QuickBooks Time / Gusto / ADP — multi-provider payroll; county-LIT setup confirmed with your provider
Medical-supply vendor bills coded taxable or exempt, with Indiana use tax accrued where a vendor charged none (DOR Information Bulletin #48)
Strict, HIPAA-aware data-handling and access controls on every file
Running a different EHR or practice-management system? If it exports to QuickBooks, we can work with it. Ask on a call.
§ 05 · How engagements work
From gross charges to real collections.
Every Indiana healthcare engagement follows the same four-phase rhythm — books accurate first, collections visibility second, advisory third.
Phase 1
Discovery
A 30-minute call to map your providers, payers, practice-management system, how you pay providers, and your county-LIT and data-handling picture. No pitch.
Phase 2
Setup & cleanup
Configure payer reconciliation and per-provider tracking, plus a cleanup to fix write-off and entity coding where needed.
Phase 3
Monthly close & reconciliation
Monthly reconciliation with billed-vs-collected by payer, per-provider reporting, write-off posting, and county-LIT payroll cadence.
Accurate collections are the start. A healthy practice is the point.
Once collections are real and per-provider numbers are clean, the question shifts from “are the books right?” to “what do they tell us?” Which payers underpay or pay late, whether a provider’s comp formula still fits, where overhead is creeping, when adding a provider or location pencils out — the decisions that keep an Indiana practice financially healthy as it grows.
That’s where healthcare advisory comes in: a QuickBooks ProAdvisor who knows your collections and per-provider data turning it into compensation, overhead, and cash-flow strategy alongside your CPA. As automation handles routine entry, this judgment layer is where practices find their footing. Explore fractional CFO & advisory
Every engagement runs on three roles: a client advisor who scopes it and stays your point of contact, a senior bookkeeper who prepares your setup and monthly close in your software, and a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor who reviews every close before it reaches you. A U.S.-based bookkeeper is available on request; we can share their public directory profile with you.
Specialists when your books need them.
Senior bookkeepers who specialize in rental portfolios and Xero, and specialist partner practices for trust accounting for law firms and CFO advisory. We bring the right one onto your engagement when your business calls for it, under the same standards and review.
Why is healthcare accounting different in Indiana?
Medical practices collect far less than they bill, so the books turn on insurance-payer reconciliation — billed vs. collected by payer with contractual write-offs — plus per-provider tracking and HIPAA-aware handling that standard bookkeeping doesn’t do. Indiana adds its own wrinkle: multi-provider and staff payroll carries the county local income tax for each person’s county of residence, which matters across the IU Health, Parkview, and Deaconess ecosystems where providers commute. We build all of that into your QuickBooks file so the numbers are real and CPA-ready.
Do you reconcile insurance payers for Indiana practices?
Yes. We track billed vs. collected by payer, post contractual adjustments and write-offs, and reconcile deposits to your practice-management system and clearinghouse remittances (ERA/835). That gives you real collections instead of gross charges and shows where revenue leaks between the charge, the allowed amount, and what lands in the bank — including which payers underpay or pay slowly.
Can you produce per-provider numbers?
Yes. We track production and collections per provider so compensation formulas, productivity, and partner economics rest on real figures rather than a blended practice total. For group practices and multi-specialty clinics, that’s what makes comp decisions defensible and shows who actually drives revenue.
How do you handle multi-provider payroll and county income tax?
We run multi-provider and staff payroll with the correct county local income tax (LIT) withheld for each person’s Indiana county of residence as of January 1, reported on Form WH-4; for someone who lives outside Indiana, the rate of the Indiana county where they principally work applies (Departmental Notice #1, effective January 1, 2026). Because providers and staff often commute across county lines, we map each person’s county code and apply the current rate from the Indiana DOR list so payroll reconciles. Full payroll runs through our global payroll service; your CPA files income taxes.
Are you HIPAA compliant?
We follow strict, HIPAA-aware data-handling and confidentiality discipline on every file — access controls, secure document exchange, and minimum-necessary handling of any patient-adjacent financial data. To be precise: your practice remains the covered entity responsible for its own HIPAA compliance, and we work as your bookkeeping partner under that discipline. We keep the financial records clean and controlled; we don’t touch clinical records.
Does an Indiana practice owe sales or use tax on medical supplies?
Often, yes. The Indiana Department of Revenue’s Sales Tax Information Bulletin #48 says sales tax applies to the bandages, splints, and other medical supplies a licensed practitioner consumes in professional use, and if the practitioner buys taxable items without paying sales tax, the practitioner becomes liable for the use tax and must remit it directly to the Department. A practitioner or health care facility can buy certain medical supplies and equipment exempt, but only where the end-user patient acquires the item on a prescription or drug order and the item fits one of the specific statutory categories. In QuickBooks we code supply bills taxable or exempt as they are entered and accrue use tax on taxable supplies a vendor didn’t tax, so the liability ties to the return; your CPA confirms what qualifies and files.
Our practice books are a mess. Where do we start in Indiana?
With a cleanup. We rebuild payer reconciliation and per-provider tracking, fix write-off and entity coding, reconcile deposits to the practice-management system, and reconcile to a CPA-ready baseline — then move into a monthly close with billed-vs-collected reporting. Prefer to talk first? Call (877) 751-5575 and a client advisor will scope it with you.
§ 11 · Talk to a client advisor
One call tells you exactly where your books stand.
Tell us how the business runs and where the books break. We’ll tell you which engagement fits your industry.
We reply within one business day · Written fixed-fee scope within 3 business days of your call · No hourly billingWhat happens when you call
01You talk to a client advisorSomeone who scopes QuickBooks work every day and stays your point of contact.
02We review your fileWe look at what’s actually in your QuickBooks and what it needs.
03You get a written scopeA written scope you can accept, change or decline.