Re Engineering Your Practice For Chiropractic Billing Software
In implementing medical billing software for your practice, if you simply seek to automate what you are currently doing, you are making a major mistake and will not get the full benefit of a new system- benefits like improved patient service, more effective processing, improved reimbursement rates, and improved practice revenues.
Don't miss out on the opportunities implementing a new system can provide to you.
What you should do is: 1.
Develop a flow chart of how your paperwork is processed and how your patients are handled with your current system.
2.
Research how other practices are operating after installing a new system.
3.
Review each step in the process and answer the following questions: · Is this step necessary or could it be eliminated? · Is there a better way to perform the step in terms of time required to perform or the cost involved in performing it? · How is the step as it is being performed now affecting your patients? Could the step be improved in terms of improving the level of service provided to the patients? · Are there any steps not being performed now that should be performed in terms of improving practice profitability or satisfying new regulatory requirements? 4.
Develop a list of ideal software requirements based on your analysis of how you would like your practice to operate in the future.
Use this list to assist in evaluating medical billing software you are considering.
Although available software may not meet all of your needs after reexamining your practice, it is important to find billing software that can be easily adapted to your practice or any new requirements you may have.
5.
Involve all of your staff in this review because each person involved in the review will have a different perspective on what changes in your current methods are advisable.
An added benefit of involving your staff is that they will feel part of the medical billing software solution you select and will buy in to and support that solution.
As Michael Hammer wrote in his book Re engineering the Corporation, automating what you are currently doing is like repaving the cow path- and repaving won't realize the benefits for your practice you could be realizing.
Don't make this mistake when selecting and implementing medical billing software for your practice.
If you do make this mistake, you will lose revenue enhancing opportunities such software can provide to you.
You will miss out on opportunities available to you by assessing your current operating methods.
Before implementing medical billing software, take a look at your practice objectively, analytically and with a fresh perspective.
This unique opportunity to examine your practice is an opportunity you will not have often- at least in terms of automated systems supporting your practice.
You and your profits will only benefit from this approach- but only if you take the time to reexamine your current methods.
Don't miss out on the opportunities implementing a new system can provide to you.
What you should do is: 1.
Develop a flow chart of how your paperwork is processed and how your patients are handled with your current system.
2.
Research how other practices are operating after installing a new system.
3.
Review each step in the process and answer the following questions: · Is this step necessary or could it be eliminated? · Is there a better way to perform the step in terms of time required to perform or the cost involved in performing it? · How is the step as it is being performed now affecting your patients? Could the step be improved in terms of improving the level of service provided to the patients? · Are there any steps not being performed now that should be performed in terms of improving practice profitability or satisfying new regulatory requirements? 4.
Develop a list of ideal software requirements based on your analysis of how you would like your practice to operate in the future.
Use this list to assist in evaluating medical billing software you are considering.
Although available software may not meet all of your needs after reexamining your practice, it is important to find billing software that can be easily adapted to your practice or any new requirements you may have.
5.
Involve all of your staff in this review because each person involved in the review will have a different perspective on what changes in your current methods are advisable.
An added benefit of involving your staff is that they will feel part of the medical billing software solution you select and will buy in to and support that solution.
As Michael Hammer wrote in his book Re engineering the Corporation, automating what you are currently doing is like repaving the cow path- and repaving won't realize the benefits for your practice you could be realizing.
Don't make this mistake when selecting and implementing medical billing software for your practice.
If you do make this mistake, you will lose revenue enhancing opportunities such software can provide to you.
You will miss out on opportunities available to you by assessing your current operating methods.
Before implementing medical billing software, take a look at your practice objectively, analytically and with a fresh perspective.
This unique opportunity to examine your practice is an opportunity you will not have often- at least in terms of automated systems supporting your practice.
You and your profits will only benefit from this approach- but only if you take the time to reexamine your current methods.
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