When the medical company Gary Siano worked for was sold, the new owners made it clear they wanted the client base but not the existing team. Gary had spent 11 years building genuine relationships with those clients, and their response gave him the confidence to strike out on his own.
“Enough of them said, ‘We’ll follow you wherever you go’ that I decided to make a go of it,” Siano recalled.
That decision led to the founding of Bearcat Billing Service in 2019. Six and a half years later, the company has grown to serve more than 80 clients throughout the U.S., with most concentrated in New York. But launching his own medical billing operation meant Gary suddenly faced operational challenges he’d never had to consider before.
At his previous company, a sister organization had handled all the operational logistics—collating, folding, stamping, and mailing patient bills.
“Everything was done for us,” Siano explained. “So it was a whole new world of what we needed to do.”
As a medical billing service, Bearcat was constantly mailing bills to patients, making postage a critical piece of their daily operations. The thought of having to visit the post office every couple of days simply wasn’t feasible for a growing business.
While researching solutions, Siano came across Stamps.com and immediately knew he’d found what he was looking for.
I had done some research and come across Stamps.com and saw that it would be a perfect fit for us.
Gary Siano, President
It was one of the first vendor partnerships he established when launching the business in April 2019.
What drew Siano to Stamps.com was the combination of accessibility and flexibility his new business desperately needed.
“For me, it was ease of use,” he explained. “I could actually go into a portal, print out stamps at my leisure and have them whenever I decided to run bills.”
This was particularly valuable in the early days when Siano didn’t have set schedules.
“I could be printing out labels at 9 pm. So it was definitely the accessibility, the ease of use, obviously the price.”
The cost savings were immediately apparent.
“Right now it’s like $0.04 cheaper doing it through Stamps.com as opposed to getting stamps from a post office, because we’re dealing somewhat in bulk,” Siano noted.
When you’re processing hundreds of mailers multiple times per week, those savings add up quickly.
Today, Bearcat Billing Service has experienced consistent growth every year since opening, and their postage needs reflect that success.
“From a dollar perspective, we’re spending over $2,000 a month on postage,” Siano said.
The company typically does their heavy lifting on Mondays and Tuesdays, when they’re sending out anywhere from 200 to 400 mailers at a time. The platform has scaled seamlessly with Bearcat Billing’s growth.
“I’m constantly adding money into the postage account, which is a good thing,” Siano laughed. “That means we’re mailing out a lot of stuff.”
When asked about the biggest improvement Stamps.com brought to his business, Siano didn’t hesitate:
Speed. Just being able to do stuff. If I decide I want to run stamps at 6 pm, I can do that. Without Stamps, well, the post office is closed.
Gary Siano, President
For Siano, the decision was so clearly the right fit that he didn’t even research alternatives.
“I honestly didn’t really look at any other solution because I thought this was a perfect fit,” he admitted.
“The most reliable and affordable way to satisfy your mailing needs,” is how Siano described Stamps.com’s impact on his business.
His advice to other businesses considering the platform? “Do it as soon as you can.”
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