How Obama will create more (good) work for you

All you’re hearing is electronic medical records this and EHR that. You’re probably thinking what does this have to do with you since you’re in billing, not records?

Basically, President Obama will make it nearly impossible for any health care provider to stay with paper records after 2011. He’s willing to pay for the conversion, but those holdouts who thought they couldn’t be bribed are finding themselves melting faster than a snowcone under the Fourth of July fireworks.

Some of these health care providers will try to go electronic themselves. The Obama stimulus plan addresses it this way:

“Inefficient and poor quality care costs the nation at least $50 to $100 billion every year. Billions more are wasted on administration and overhead because of inefficiencies in the health care system. Processing paper claims costs twice as much as processing electronic claims. And given current trends, this problem will only get worse as health care spending is expected to double within the next decade. ”

Basically, Obama knows professionals are needed for all phases of health care coverage and that means he’s sending you business. Oh, those doing paper claims are now in the minority, but new business can’t be overlooked.

Be proactive — go after these diehards now. Show them how the government will pay for the conversion and how you can make money for these health care providers by decreasing their rejection rates, increasing payment times and upgrade the office’s efficiency.