Healthcare providers face a staggering number of administrative tasks, from managing HR and payroll to ensuring regulatory compliance. In fact, research shows that doctors spend over 15 hours a week on paperwork—time that could be dedicated to patient care. This administrative overload doesn’t just consume valuable resources; it directly impacts patient outcomes and staff satisfaction. Read more…
Technology & Services
Time to Automate your Denied Claims
As the transition to value-based care continues and healthcare providers experience an increase in claims denials, many are looking for new solutions for handling value-based care and fee-for-service claims. According to a recent HIMSS Analytics survey, roughly one-third of health care providers are still using a manual process to manage claim denials. “Given the complexities around Read more…
3 Benefits of Automated Payments for Specialty Practices
Collecting payments can be difficult and complex for specialty practices. Receiving timely payments, managing and coordinating all the different types of payments used by patients and communicating with patients effectively are just a few of the challenges specialty providers have to navigate. This leads to cash flow issues and inefficiency in the practice as a Read more…
3 Signs it’s Time to Rebrand Your Medical Practice
Branding is one of the most important aspects of any business. It is one of the most powerful tools at your disposal for influencing customer choices and decisions. By setting a high bar for quality you can make it so that consumers associate your very brand with high quality products or services. In healthcare, high Read more…
The Basics of Telehealth Contract Management
Telehealth has taken over the healthcare industry. Just a few short years ago when it was more of a novelty than actual healthcare service, such a statement might have been met with ridicule. That was, however, before the COVID-19 pandemic when a simple visit to the doctor’s office became a serious health risk. Providers were Read more…
4 Tips for Driving Sales of Health Related Products Online
While patient visits remain the main source of income for most medical practices, specialties such as dentistry, dermatology, and family medicine have access to an alternate revenue stream in the form of selling health-related products. Most practices that engage in this business will already have mastered in-office promotion, though online marketing remains a challenge. Keep Read more…
Can Telemedicine Increase Practice Profitability?
Over time, healthcare practices have witnessed revolutionary transformation by adopting telemedicine software in a variety of ways. The decision to increase access care with telemedicine has allowed for a better work-life balance amongst physicians. It not only ensures better outcomes, but also reduces workload for the administration staff. These are a number of benefits that Read more…
Why are patients less Loyal?
Listen to this The ever-shifting healthcare landscape has provided consumers with new care options. With retail clinics, virtual visits and urgent care practices, it has become harder for primary care physicians to elicit patient loyalty. And yet, for many PCPs, success in today’s crowded marketplace depends greatly on loyalty. The 2015 PCP Consumer Loyalty Survey, presented Read more…
5 Things You Didn’t Know Your Practice Management Software Can Do
With the recent transition to ICD-10 and new rules for MU2 being announced, much focus and attention have understandably been given to the critical role of electronic health records (EHRs) in today’s practices. But often the real silent star of the show is practice management software, which runs the business side of healthcare. With quality Read more…
The ABCs of Merit-Based Incentive Payment System
On April 15 of 2015, President Obama and the members of Congress passed the Medicare Access and Chip Authorization Act (MACRA), which included a permanent solution, instead of the repeated temporary fixes, for the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate methodology used to pay doctors. Under the new law, from 2015 till the end of 2018, physicians will Read more…