To many, juggling looks like magic, but an adept administrator can do just that – manage appointment bookings, patient information, billing, and much more. If you’re a master of juggling tasks, you can probably work in a physician’s front office. What Do Medical Office Staff Do? While many think of a doctor’s white coat when
Older patients have unique medical and scheduling needs. Even if you don’t specialize in geriatric medicine, you have older patients in your practice. Some of them may have been with you for years. As your patients age, chronic and acute health conditions can emerge. As medical staff, your job is to stay on top of
Everyone values their privacy, and nowhere is privacy more important than in the case of your personal medical records. In this age of electronic data collection and storage, patients can feel insecure about the safety of their personal health information. This is why the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) exists. Your practice needs
EHR’s have come the distance since they were introduced. REVENUE CYCLE MANAGEMENT At this point, EHRs are about much more than how encounters are recorded. If you’re looking for a smoking gun, think revenue management. Without a fully unified practice-wide system, you’re in danger of failing to create the type of efficiencies and revenue
Choosing a vendor is never a simple task, but knowing what questions to ask makes it a lot easier. Here are three things to look for when selecting a medical billing service and the questions you should ask to determine if they fill the bill. Don’t choose a Service based solely on price. A full
Until recently, the patient’s share of a typical office visit was a fairly straightforward item and an incidental to practice revenue. Often, it was a simple matter of collecting a $15-$20 co-pay. But today, accurately identifying patient responsibility prior to the visit and seeing that it’s collected at the appointment can mean the difference between
If you’re considering outsourcing your practice’s insurance claims to a medical billing service, this article is for you. While some physicians swear by their outsourced billing service and would never consider bringing this costly and burdensome function back in-house, others feel that engaging the services of a medical billing company would deprive them of vital
What is a HIPAA Compliant Patient Portal? Almost every medical professional in private practice today has a business website, but does it have the ability to provision a HIPAA compliant account for your patients? A portal like this will enable your patients to interact with your practice, review their treatment plan, update insurance info, pay
A working mom’s life is, quite literally, a balancing act. Lean too far toward the office, and your children get short shrift. Lean too far toward home, and office resentments can flare up. Practice managers and physicians can relate to this type of performance—working moms must be accommodated to keep them in their jobs, but
The medical billing business is a lucrative one, but it can be riddled with problems. First of all, you have to find clients, and then you have to get them to sign up with your service. It’s not always easy to do either, and it’s even harder when you’re new at the game. If you’re
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