Business Practices

Practical Ways to Optimize Your ENT Practice Revenues

Medical practice revenues have come under increasing pressure from the complexities of policies enacted in the medical industry. These policies have made it progressively complicated for small practices to run their business at an even clip. Optimizing revenues has therefore become one of the foremost issues small and medium practices seek a solution for as they work out how to build profitable businesses. In this article, we share a few pointers on what you can do as an ENT to…

Three Ways a Meaningful Use Audit Can Help Your ENT Practice Become More Efficient

Download FREE How to Prepare For and Survive a MU Audit Guide   An ENT practice may include ENT physicians, neuro-otologists, surgeons, audiologists, technicians, IT professionals, and others. The successful ENT practice typically involves many transitions and referrals. Manual performance of the thousands of tasks facing an ENT practice could overwhelm a large staff. For instance, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services says that: About 25 percent of patients seen by a physician or surgeon in the office or in…

Three Benefits of Having an Interactive User-Friendly Patient Portal

It’s been said that understanding users is the best way to know what to offer them. This may be a simple rule when it comes to the world of fast moving consumer goods but it also is true about the medical sector. Since the modernization of medicine, doctors have been trying to get their patients to engage with them well after the patient’s visit but this hasn’t been easy. Health IT came to bridge that gap and now, the CMS…

Three Signs Your ENT Practice Is Ready For An EHR Switch

For ENT practices that have an electronic health record (EHR), they often become used to that system. However, as time goes on, government rules and technology change. Has you EHR kept up? If not, it may turn out that familiarity is trumping functionality. If you recognize any of these three signs taking place in your ENT practice, it may be time for a change. Download FREE Picking Your Next EHR Guide Here Compromised Compliance Recently, the Affordable Care Act and associated legislation introduced regulations to which all…