If you’ve ever worked in a medical practice, you’ve likely asked yourself why patients might be leaving your practice in favor of a competitor or if there was some way to improve the quality of the services that you can… Read More
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How to Make Payment Easier on Patients
Self-pay patients are on the rise as a result of more health plans with high deductibles and lower monthly premiums. Sadly, it can be tough for medical practices to get full payment from patients, which results in a decline in… Read More
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Why the Healthcare Industry Should Highly Value Good Customer Service
The industry of healthcare revolves around great customer service. How well you treat your patients will influence the success of your facility. If you want to treat your patients better, it is important not to treat them simply as patients…. Read More
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Possible Reasons for Patients Not Paying Their Medical Bills
Are you struggling to get patients to pay their medical bills on time? If so, you are not the only one. There are many patients who are not paying their bills in a timely fashion. While you may think this… Read More
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How to Raise Patient Engagement In Your Medical Practice
Social media and the ability to connect with others worldwide might make you think that patients aren’t as bothered by longer wait times. Surely with all of the tablets and smartphones people have these days, they would be content spending… Read More
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Benefits and Potential Problems With Electronic Health Records
Many people are seeing how important computer and software systems have become in the healthcare industry, especially when trying to improve the productivity of employees and provide treatment to patients in a more effective manner. A specific piece of software… Read More
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Signs That You Need New EHR Software
Over half of all physicians make use of EHR software. EHR software is a useful tool because it can help with many different tasks, like guiding patient care and managing your patients’ information. But eventually, your software is going to… Read More
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What You Might Not Have Known Your Practice Management Software Could Do
There is a lot of emphasis that gets placed on understanding what role electronic health records (EHRs) have in today’s medical practices. However, practice management software can often be the unsung hero, and this software is what contributes to the… Read More
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Why You Should Consider Centralizing Utilization Review Functions
Centralizing your utilization review functions is a quality improvement measure that helps save a great deal of money, and it can help narrow gaps in coverage because of inter-rater reliability. There are a lot of companies making the transition from… Read More
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Comparing Medical Billing Claim Denials and Claim Rejections
There are two large obstacles that negatively impact healthcare reimbursements. These obstacles are insurance claim denials and rejections. Many people in the billing industry will try to use these terms interchangeably. However, rejections and denials have distinctions between them, and… Read More