The Bismarck Cancer Center’s Business Office provides a number of critically important services, including both patient and administrative functions.  Services provided to the public and to patients include answering the telephone, greeting and directing all patients and visitors, scheduling patient appointments, registering all new patients, providing transcription of patient medical records, and expediting communications with other providers and organizations. Other patient services include the provision of needed financial counseling and assistance and making arrangements for any needed assistance with housing and transportation needs.  Administrative services include providing all accounting, billing, payables, collections, and financial reporting services, and preparing financial analyses.