Avoid Collections: How to Get Patients to Pay Up
When outstanding patient balances grow out of control, your practice may feel there’s no option but to place them in the hands of a collection agency. Putting debt professionals in charge is the best way to get your payment… right? Not always. Physicians and practice managers often resort too quickly to the services of a […]
Q&A: Chatting with Jerry Haar and Nancy Borkowski of FIU Business – Part 1
From Incubate Miami to the Meetup.com groups that keep popping up in my inbox, Miami’s vibrance is spilling over into its entrepreneurial groups, which are clustering in industrial parks and business sectors from the airport to Little Haiti. At CareCloud, we both admire and support entrepreneurial efforts in South Florida, particularly in the healthcare sector. […]
More Than an IT Project? Four Common EHR Misconceptions
Considering the amount of information available on electronic health records, it’s not unbelievable to learn quite a bit of it is misinformed. However, considering the importance of implementing EHRs for the health care industry and its patients, we should try to remedy the number of misconceptions and twisted truths we’ve allowed our physicians to adopt.
Power 5 Week in Review: Putting Your Patients First
As go your patient relationships, so goes your practice’s performance. That’s why PYP spent much of this week sharing unexpected ways to enhance your approach to patient management and optimize your practice in the process.
How Employee Health Impacts Your Patients (and Your Practice)
As the New York Times recently reported, nursing ranks among the worst careers for work-related injuries and back pain. Additionally, research shows that 18 percent of nurses suffer from depression – a prevalence twice as high as the average for all U.S. citizens. Making matters worse, those occupational hazards and issues don’t just affect the […]
Do ePrescriptions Actually Improve Patient Health?
ePrescriptions are hailed as a panacea to Rx-related costs, with studies indicating an increase in first-fill medication adherence and healthcare savings that could add up to nearly $240 billion. Small and mid-size practices are leading the way, making up a sizeable chunk of the 58% of physicians using ePrescribing tools outside of the hospital. So […]
What Can Doctors Learn from Entrepreneurs?
As much as this topic doesn’t serve this kind of pop-cultural oversimplification, the fact is entrepreneurship is in style – a new ‘punk rock’ of sorts. The advantage of having so many people jump into the mix, however, is a constant hunger for innovation and contrast between effective and ineffective entrepreneurs. Being a doctor can’t […]
Use ‘Preventive Care’ in Billing to Decrease Denials & Increase Satisfaction
Faced with low reimbursement rates and picky payer specifications, it’s critical that you get paid every penny you’re due for treating patients. You know how to properly take a claim from patient encounter to submission, but how much preventive care are you taking with your claims before patients reach your office? Incorporating pre-emptive processes into […]
How to Counter Security Threats to Mobile Devices
Healthcare providers who wish to take advantage of the burgeoning capabilities of mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and laptops must be aware of the security risks that open up through use the latest technology. As you assess your mobile strategy and how you will take charge of your patients’ protected health information (PHI), consider […]
Do EHRs Make Patients Safer?
There is an ongoing debate as to whether or not EHRs actually make patients safer. Sure, doctors using electronic health records boast fewer malpractice claims – Harvard Medical School reports that malpractice claims for physicians using EHRs tally in at one-sixth of the total of malpractice claims for physicians who haven’t yet implemented a system. That’s […]