There is No Such Thing as a 10-Minute Office Visit
I will never forget something a patient told me several years ago when I was covering the front desk in a practice I was managing. If you manage a practice and haven’t worked at your check-in and check-out desks recently, I highly recommend it.
An insured patient that I checked out was shocked when I said the charge for her visit was $100. She said, “But he was only in the room for ten minutes!” I was briefly at a loss for words. I recovered, we agreed on a payment plan for her co-pay, I made a note on her encounter form for the billing office and she left.
I’ve been thinking about our conversation, and thinking about what that $100 – actually the payer would probably only pay about $35 and with her co-pay, the grand total would be $55 – and what that $55 is supposed to cover…
