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INCREASING PROFITS
Model Tool: Meaningful Use resources
May 20, 2014 by
READER TIPS
Indiana office uses billboards and TV to bring in a flood of new patients
April 10, 2014 by
An Indiana practice is seeing a significant number of new patients from a billboard and a TV commercial.
It’s money well spent, says Laurie Streib, administrator of Gastroenterology of Southern Indiana, an eight-physician, 43-staff practice in New Albany, IN. And getting the advertising going has been amazingly easy – the billboard company designed the sign and the television station wrote the commercial, filmed it, and edited it.
The advertising began only a year ago with the billboard. The office is located in the Louisville, KY, metro area, so it placed the sign on the interstate between Kentucky and Indiana. It carries a group picture of the…
INCREASING PROFITS
How to use social media to market your practice
December 23, 2013 by
Social media marketing is hot hot hot. But how do you use it like the cool kids in order to market your practice?
Start at the top. The top three networking sites, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, offer opportunities for spreading the word about the practice’s offerings and expertise.
Network for business
LinkedIn, the leading business network, is nonetheless social. What’s more, because it is a business network, it easily lends itself to…
MANAGING THE OFFICE
Editor watches staggering changes in medical office management
December 22, 2013 by
By Susan Crawford
Founding Editor
Dear Readers:
Medical Office Manager’s first issue came out in November 1987. And now after 26 years as your editor, I have retired.
This is a good time to look at the issues and conundrums you as manager have faced during all that time and to congratulate you on a job well done.
The changes have been staggering. You have kept up with them all…
BILLING AND COLLECTIONS
Don’t let the office get caught in Medicare’s pay cuts
June 3, 2013 by
e-scripting, EHRs, and value modifiers
Medicare has been offering a lot of incentives for technology use and quality measures. But those same incentives have their dark side – payment cuts for noncompliance.
Here are the three cuts to be dodging right now. And along with them is the unavoidable 2% cut brought about by sequestration.
#1: the 2% cut on e-scripting
Most imminent is the cut that gets a yes or a no on…
BILLING AND COLLECTIONS
Sequestration: another 2% cut on doctors’ payments
April 1, 2013 by
Sequestration. It began March 1, 2013. And it is hitting doctors’ payments by 2%.
As to what managers need to do to meet the payment reductions, the financial experts are all advising essentially the same things: get the copays and deductibles up front, and set up a credit-card-on-file for as many patients as possible.
The sequester specifics are these…
MANAGING THE OFFICE
Keep safe from the Recovery Audit Contractors and the courts by making the corrections correctly
January 4, 2012 by
What flaws are the Recovery Audit Contractors searching for in records?
Illegible documentation, incomplete documentation, unidentified providers, wrong dates of service – and evidence of improper corrections.
To help offices stay safe, the government has set out guides for making corrections so the records pass muster with the RACs.
Those same guides will also ensure the records pass muster with a jury should they end.
The definition of correct
For both paper and electronic records, the government says, three principles have to be followed.
• First, the new information has to identify itself for what it is…
