On average, doctors spend two-thirds of their workdays filling out paperwork, which restricts the time they spend with patients. This is largely a result of health care regulations, which make it time-consuming for doctors to enter orders into the system’s computer and can be more efficiently managed by administrative staff.
Topics: Healthcare
At a time when reimbursement rates are being squeezed, what you don’t need is someone surreptitiously removing money from your practice. Yet, that’s exactly what some staff members are doing to the practices that employ them.
Topics: Healthcare, fraud prevention, Internal Controls
The changes in revenue recognition present two major issues. In this month's article, Maria will address the first issue. Next month she will complete this two part series.
Topics: Healthcare, medical, Revenue Recognition
Let’s face it — most business and medical practices don’t have the problem of being too efficient in their operations. On the contrary, many medical practices suffer from a range of bottlenecks and redundancies that waste time and energy. These broadly fall into several practice areas, including the front office, the back office and the physicians. Here are eight areas to home in on to improve procedures and reduce waste.
Topics: Healthcare, consulting, medical, practice, How to, dental
Many opportunities may arise in a physician practice for providing ancillary services, depending on the nature of that practice as well as the physicians’ interests. A short list includes anesthesia, diagnostic testing, endoscopy, pain management and physical therapy. (For more examples, see “12 ancillary services to consider.”)
Topics: Healthcare, accounting
Every medical practice faces ongoing challenges in maintaining a successful bottom line. New challenges arise whenever Medicare and Medicaid policy, or the economy, changes. Still, a handful of problems rise to the top in most medical practices. Here are some ideas for solving them before they become overwhelming.
Topics: Accounting Tips, Healthcare, Financial, consulting, doctors, accounting
Management expert Peter Drucker famously said, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” Within a medical practice, it’s possible — though not necessarily desirable — to measure anything and everything, ranging from the number of patients per day to the amount of time spent on phone calls. So what should your medical practice measure?
Topics: Accounting Tips, Healthcare, medical, practice
The more people come to your site, the more likely they are to become clients or customers. Continuing to drive people to your site is beneficial for your overall business. In this last installment of the search engine optimization (“SEO”) series, we’ll be covering a few more tips that will help bring traffic to your site again and again.
Topics: Auto, Manufacturing & Distribution, Real Estate, Not-for-Profit, Healthcare, Construction
Welcome to the next blog post in a series of best practices for search engine optimization (“SEO”) and your organization’s website. We’ll discuss user experience (“UX”): what it is, what it means, and what you can do to help potential clients gain a better understanding while visiting your website. We’ll also go over user interface design (“UI”) and how it relates to UX.
Topics: Auto, Manufacturing & Distribution, Real Estate, Not-for-Profit, Healthcare, Construction
In a series of SEO, we’ll discuss different tasks you can do in order to help maximize traffic on your site.
Let’s start from the beginning. What is SEO? SEO stands for search engine optimization. What does that mean? Search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo all use algorithms that decide how to rank sites on their pages, and SEO is the process that helps your site rank closer to the top of the page.
Topics: Auto, Manufacturing & Distribution, Real Estate, Not-for-Profit, Healthcare, Construction, consulting