A small medical billing company owner was moaning over not making as much money as he wanted. He was having trouble expanding so it seemed he was where he was.
What other services are you offering, we asked, besides billing?
Hello, are you there? The line was silent for a moment before the business owner said [...]

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Doctors are getting all types of free technology. Free webpads for patients to fill out information. Free TVs for their lobby and patient rooms for people to watch free videos touting somebody’s services. Free medicine to dole out as samples.
Free stuff is corrupting. Doctors get so many things free that they start to feel entitled. [...]

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Health providers are seeing six fewer patients per week than 2006 because of paperwork, according to Medicaleconomics.com.
Bet those doctors wish they had someone helping them more effectively. Someone . . . like you.
When making your presentation to physicians, the biggest two items they want to know is how much does it cost and how effective [...]

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Medical Economics recently named 10 steps to a better practice. We were amazed it took to No. 4 to get to the crux of most office dilemmas — paperwork flow.
The magazine pointed to one physician’s problem of everything falling apart when his bookkeeper took time off. The answer was to get some help.
Uh, yes. Outsourcing. [...]

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The change to ICD-10 codes will cost a practice of three physicians more than $83,000 and a firm of 10 physicians more than $285,000, according to a Maryland research firm. No wonder the move from ICD-9 codes has now been pushed back to 2013.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced a two-year [...]

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