Folks,
Temporary suggestion of what we are doing. We print out the days schedule which then sits up front. We collect the copays before the visit. Then Shele or I record who paid what and how, next to the patient's name; Like $25 Cash or $15 Ck # 123 or what have you. Later on I enter these in our quickbooks as we have every patient set up as customers. We also have a "flow sheet" for every patient that we enter things like refer to Dr. X, copay, the copay info and the like. We all refer to these and they only get shreaded after all the tasks are done, like reminder set, referal complete so and so forth.
Also, I have spoken to Vinny who uses a good PM program (Medisoft 12 I believe?) and has all the data re-entered manually. He and I are both of the belief that having a 2nd person re-enter the data really works as a continual chart/billing review type system. Evey now and again I flag one or two things I talk to Nancy about. I'd 75% of the time we don't change a thing because most of the time she did everything just great, but it is a regular chance to keep on top of things and review how and what we are doing. In this business one can not be too careful. So as much as I too originally really wanted some sort of "e" connection to just send things over from charts to PM, more and more I'm really liking what we are doing just fine. Yes it is a bit more time consuming, but double checking almost every claim that goes out the door has it's advantages too.
