I am back. Been busy with multiple staff members leaving . Three good employees graduated and got higher paying jobs (RN/IT/Accounting)....what to do to keep them...not much really, they got 40K+ offers. Sad for smaller practice...
Thanks to you all, my beloved doc had many more better sleeping nights... (summer a little slower) but we should be well prepared and ready for Fall onslaught. Also a slight improvement in billing per new medicare preventive guidelines.
I just saw a new topic that our friends talking about billing service (EZ Claim mentioned) and like to know how difficult to bring it in house.
Since start, we used an outside billing service, 6 percents but I think that eating into our profit. To lessen doc stress at same amount of patients and higher monthly expenses (like our new office lease after 3 years, staff salary increase... ).
Pros and Cons of in house billing? As I've been at the office more last couple weeks, I could see that for family doc CPT codes 80% same, if the ins verification done good then claim denials quite low. My doc doesn't trust me in handle billing as I am somewhat not caring much about money, born rich mindset. But even for my older brain, couple mistakes here and there could still be less than 3, 4 K monthly billing charge, 15-25 patients a day .
