Payer enrollment rarely lines up with a new physician’s first day. A week-by-week plan helps practices avoid a revenue gap, handle pending claims and know when the schedule can safely open.
|Articles|November 2, 2020
Survey: Medical practice visits and revenues remain down despite telehealth
Author(s)Jeff Bendix, Senior Editor, Logan Lutton
Declines in patient visits and revenues continue despite telehealth increase
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The nation’s medical practices saw steep declines in patient visits and revenues at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, from which they had only partially recovered by late summer. That’s among the takeaways of an AMA survey of 3,500 physicians conducted in July through mid-August. More detailed results of the survey follow.
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