Medical Practices: The 2012 Year In Review
A few of the important practice-management lessons of 2012.
For the better part of 2012 I have been blogging for Physicians Practice’s Practice Notes and I am so thankful for the opportunity to share my experience and my opinion (because let’s face it, I am very opinionated) with you during 2012.
Here are some of the things we have learned:
- It is important for your clinic to be on time, be honest and apologetic, and have a bail-out plan when patients take up too much time with non-medical issues.
- You should declare your office a Gossip Free Zone!
- Don’t let your office manager sit in his/her office, they should be out in the clinic.
- Don’t buy or sign up for ancillary services without performing or having performed a reimbursement analysis.
- Focus your office on customer service.
- When staffing your office, it is quality not quantity that pays off.
- Registered Nurses can be great assets in primary care/family practice offices.
- Convert to an EHR, it is time to get rid of the paper charts.
- It’s okay to use a billing service in primary care, if your billing staff is inexperienced and your volume is high.
- Don’t let no-shows get you down, there are remedies for that.
- Get rid of the closed glass partition between your receptionist and waiting room.
- Increase patient satisfaction using Customer Service from the H.E.A.R.T.
- Find creative ways to market.
- There are more than 10 reasons you can be thankful this year.
- Hire a marketer!
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