SPOTLIGHT -
4 tips for handling cash-pay patients
How to deal with patients who pay you directly.
Use shared services to provide behavioral health
Primary care physicians can join forces to provide these services.
Open the dialogue around sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
Physicians should open an important dialogue with patients around this aspect of sexual health.
Treating vaginal atrophy in menopausal women
Primary care physicians can help women in menopause treat this common but uncomfortable condition.
How to survive high-deductible health plans
Successful practices will review and establish new financial policies, do a better job of educating patients, and consider cash-pay services.
What physicians need to know about perimenopause
Women need support managing the health changes that precede menopause.
The importance of HPV vaccines in preventing cervical cancer
Physicians can help reduce cervical cancer by promoting the HPV vaccine.
The benefit of flexible patient payment options
Strategies to increase your collection rate in 2019
Eliminate claim denials for medical necessity
How to increase revenue by eliminating needless rejections
Three simple strategies to increase revenue
Physician practices can adopt three simple steps to increase revenue
Use patient segmentation and targeted messaging to increase revenue
Automation can help physicians improve the patient’s billing experience and boost revenue.
Improve patient billing experience for a better bottom line
To satisfy patients, make sure their billing experience is as good as the clinical care experience you provide.
How telehealth technology can boost revenue
Greater communication with patients through telehealth can lead to improved revenue cycle management.
Use shared services to improve diabetes counseling
Shared diabetes services may be essential to successfully treating patients with this disease without overburdening physicians.
Trapped in an EHR
Five physicians discuss how the performance of their systems affects their workload, careers, and ability to treat patients.
What changes to E/M coding could mean for physician practice finances
Proposed CMS billing changes have physicians concerned about revenue.
Billing bots can streamline revenue cycle management
Automated robotic processes can take tedious billing tasks off employees’ plates.
Treat revenue cycle management as a strategic process
RCM requires a strategic approach across silos for the best results.
Can a digital employee transform the revenue cycle?
Artificial intelligence technology can take on the burdensome tasks of RCM.
Mitigating claims risk in medical necessity
Careful attention to documentation is the key to prevent claims denials for medical necessity.
Text messaging may improve patient collections
In an age when people spend more time on mobile phones than ever before, text messaging may be a key solution to patient collections.
Improve patient satisfaction to improve billing
Some simple patient practices may help improve the bottom line
How to optimize revenue cycle management in the shift to value based care
Practices must embrace change to survive the shift to value based care
Lessons from the Las Vegas shooting
Billing strategies for cash-pay patients
Physicians should put policies in place to deal with increasing cash-pay patients
How to keep billing smooth after a practice acquisition
In a practice acquisition, don’t let billing practices fall through the cracks.
Charge-capture software can increase practice revenue
A good charge capture system can improve a practice’s bottom line.
Considerations for changing revenue cycle management technology
A change in RCM technology can improve financial performance with these careful considerations.
Navigating cost-of-care conversations with patients
Financial discussions with patients don’t have to be uncomfortable for physicians
How one practice conquered burnout