Eliminating Your Medical Practice's Aging Accounts Receivable
With the following tips, it's not only possible, but quite probable in the near future, you can eliminate your accounts receivable in the 120+ day category.
How to Get Medical Practice Staff to Get Along
When you have two dynamic sets of employees at your practice who struggle to get along, what do you do? Here are tips to identify the problems and resolve them quickly.
When Your Medical Practice Workload is Too Great, Delegate
When you are on your way to burning out, and if you can't add a new hire to your medical practice, at least learn to delegate.
Five Ways to Streamline Patient Appointments
When you find your medical practice constantly behind, unorganized, and frazzled at the end of every day, maybe it's time to take a look at your work flow.
Helping Stressed-Out Medical Practice Staff
Your employees can get so overstressed they become crippled in their job performance. Here are some tips on identify, approaching, and working with your staff.
Answering Insurance Questions from Your Patients
Patients are in a panic over shifts in their insurance plans and looking to you for deciphering. Here's how to provide great customer service to assist them.
Company Culture: Find the Right Fit for Your Medical Practice
A potential hire for your medical practice may have the skills you seek, but you need to also be sure they fit your office culture. Here's how to be sure.
Four Steps to Healthier Accounts Receivable at Your Medical Practice
Stop cash flow from being a regular issue at your medical practice with these four tips to minimize the time between seeing a patient and getting paid.
Getting New Medical Practice Staff Acclimated
You've spent numerous hours on the new hire for your medical practice. Here are a few steps to get them up to speed without overwhelming them at the same time.
Get All the Facts from Insurers When Verifying Patient Plans
Your medical practice staff must be able to stop and ask questions from payers on plan verification to improve your revenue and patient relations.
Identify and Motivate Underperformers at Your Medical Practice
Here are some ideas to identify, understand, and re-motivate your medical practice staff and turn them back into people who love their work.
Getting the Most Out of Patient Cancellations
Find out why patients are canceling their appointments, and then use that information give them more information and get them back into your medical practice.
Payers Turning to Patients to Fight Denied Claims
It seems payers want patients, not your medical practice, to resolve denied claims. Here's how to arm yourself and your patients with the information to get it resolved.
Handling Staff Complaints About Medical Practice Co-workers
Handling employee complaints can be tricky. Here are some ideas on approaching them and resolving them quickly and effectively at your practice.
Anticipating and Planning the Finances of Your Medical Practice
Knowing your percent of collections, days aging out in accounts receivable, and payer mix will all help budget your practice finances in a much more efficient manner.
Helping Staff, Physicians Adapt to Change at Your Practice
Do you have medical practice staff hesitant to change or adapt to new policies or procedures? Here are a few tips and ideas to help them along.
The Importance of a Coding Cheat Sheet at Your Medical Practice
If you see more than eight patients per day, it is time you have a quick coding reference guide to maximize reimbursements based upon insurance and CPT codes.
Get Your Medical Practice Back on Track
If you have owned your medical practice for more than two years, it's time to step back and do some evaluating on its culture and direction.
The Importance of Having an Accurate Fee Schedule
Your fee schedule is the heart of your medical practice. Now is the time to get your allowable rates updated and published to your staff and billing department.
Medical Practices Pay the Price When Insurers Hold Reimbursements
With Affordable Care Act full implementation looming, here are some things to consider as your accounts receivable slowly rises amid some interesting moves by payers.
Turning Issues into Opportunities at Your Medical Practice
Another year has passed where you meant to make changes at your medical practice, but didn't. Here's how to act in the moment and make true change this year.
Taking the Necessary Time to Manage Your Medical Practice
Feel like there's no time to manage your medical practice? Here's how to spend five hours a week and increase inflow while still allowing you to treat patients.
Dos and Don'ts for the Medical Practice Holiday Party
Here are some tips you can review that could eliminate post-holiday party problems for you and your medical practice.
Holiday Decorating At Your Practice: Be Festive Without Offending
When the holidays roll around, how do you decide to decorate your practice? Here are some quick tips and thoughts to keep in mind.
Year-end Resource Planning for Medical Practices
With December upon us, we are just a few short weeks away the new year. Is your medical practice prepared with the necessary resources to turn the calendar?
What to Do with Patient Gifts, Treats at Your Medical Practice
Over the next month, your office will be inundated with treats and gifts for your medical staff. How much is enough? Here are some options to spread the goodwill.
Why You Need a Medical Practice Cancellation Policy
With all of the upcoming holidays, a well-written and enforced cancellation policy is a must at your medical practice.
The Importance of Medical Practice Operations Documentation
Does your medical practice have one employee that has all of the answers? Here's why this is a dangerous process to support.
Getting Paid for Treating Patients' Work- and Auto-related Injuries
If you have patients who've been hurt by a work-related injury or in a car accident and are using their private insurance, you may not be paid for your services.
Patient Insurance Verification: Saving your Practice's A/R
If you aren't asking your patients about insurance changes when they make an appointment at your medical practice, you are already losing money.