Checking Patient Eligibility Saves Time & Money
Checking patient insurance eligibility and benefits remains essential to medical practice income and productivity. You can perform eligibility checks several different ways, depending on the processes your office and insurance carrier use. But there are also a few important questions you should ask.
Why Technology Could Boost Healthcare Efficiency
Between 20% and 50% — by some estimates, that’s the percentage of waste from inefficiency in the U.S. healthcare system. Put in dollars, the Institute of Medicine estimates $765 billion (that’s with a B) or 31% of the $2.5 trillion U.S. health spending can be attributed to “excessive costs.”1 That’s a major problem. Duplicate, inefficient […]
The Best ‘Key Performance Indicators’ for Your Medical Practice
With the advent of modern practice management software, there is no limit to the data your practice can measure. Unlimited data, however, can be overwhelming. It’s better and more useful to focus on key performance indicators (KPIs). “Just throwing more data at caregivers—we hear routinely that’s not going to be helpful,” says Brian Lawrence, Chief […]
‘My Experience With CareCloud’ — Client Video Feedback
The CareCloud team focuses all we do around ensuring the best possible user experience for our clients. This goal drives everything we do. Direct feedback from our clients is the best way to ensure we’re achieving this goal. So we recently caught up with Gray Jernigan, Managing Director of Georgia Podiatry Inc., who tells what […]
What More Consumer-Driven Healthcare Could Mean for Your Practice
Many patients already check social media and online reviews before coming to your medical practice. They also show up with specific questions after looking up symptoms online, sometimes even on their smartphones during a visit. Consumers will continue to drive changes in their healthcare experience with more and bigger changes coming soon. That’s the consensus […]
It’s Good to Share: How We Can Get Closer to Interoperability
Despite the challenges, interoperability of patient health records and other healthcare IT remains worth fighting for — physicians, consultants and health IT vendors agreed at the emerge Americas 2015 conference in South Florida. A major theme crossed multiple days of the meeting: the status quo is no longer acceptable. Health systems and healthcare IT vendors […]
Consumer-Driven Healthcare Is the Future, and Here’s Why
Consumers are already starting to change the shape of healthcare through social media, online reviews and use of patient portals, but they’re expected to drive more and bigger changes soon. Why? Multiple forces will drive even greater engagement and influence going forward, industry experts revealed at the emerge Americas 2015 conference in South Florida. These […]
Should Your Practice Charge Patient No-Show Fees?
Madelyn Young contributed to this post Despite your staff’s best efforts to remind patients of their appointments, you’re still likely plagued by one or two no-show events every day. The MGMA has estimated that medical practices average a 5% to 7% no-show rate. But that’s not so bad, right? After all, you can’t expect every single […]
Prepping for a New EHR or Practice Management System?
If you’re like most medical providers, implementing new EHR or practice management software is a big undertaking for your practice. My experience as an Implementation Specialist at CareCloud gives me unique insight into how to streamline the process. I help small, medium and large medical groups keep their projects on time and avoid any major […]