Seattle-based Pacific Medicaid Services Inc., which does business here as Outreach Services, says it has leased 9,400 square feet of office space on the fourth floor of the Holley Mason Building, at 157 S. Howard, and plans to move most of its Spokane work force there this month.

Outreach Services helps hospitals collect on bills by coordinating financial assistance for underinsured patients through state and federal programs, including Medicaid.

Greg Moga, Outreach Services' Seattle-based president, says the space will accommodate anticipated growth of Outreach Services and its Spokane affiliate, PacificEDI Inc., which develops systems for billing and claims resolution for hospitals.

"The improved office space will allow us to expand our employee work force by accessing Spokane's terrific talent pool of health-care financial workers," Moga says.

Outreach Services has 35 employees in Spokane who occupy 4,500 square feet of space in the Marycliff Center, at 819 W. Seventh, says Amy Butler, the company's human resource manager here. Those employees will move this month to the Holley Mason Building, she says.

PacificEDI has 15 employees who occupy smaller quarters on the third floor of the former QualMed Plaza, at 508 W. Sixth. They'll move to the Holley Mason Building at a future date, Butler says.

Outreach Services was founded in 1987 and opened an office in Spokane in 2004. It has eight other regional offices throughout the country.

Casey Brazil, of Spokane-based Kiemle & Hagood Co., represented Outreach Services, and Cody George, also of Kiemle & Hagood, represented ConoverBond Property Management Inc., of Spokane, in the Holley Mason lease.

ConoverBond, which renovated the Holley Mason Building and is headed by Spokane developer Rob Brewster, focuses on urban redevelopment. The company leases out and operates more than 300,000 square feet of office, retail, restaurant, and hotel space in Spokane, including 12 properties downtown.

Kiemle & Hagood manages more than 5 million square feet of lease space and provides expertise in facility management, development and consulting, housing rehabilitation, and homeowner-association management.