by Mary Pat Whaley | Nov 20, 2016 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Finance, Innovation
High Deductible Plans and CCOF Are Becoming Mainstream When we first starting teaching practices how to implement credit card on file (CCOF) in their practices in 2010, only a few practices had ever heard of it. Today, we get calls weekly from practices who need help...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Mar 26, 2013 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Finance
If you could improve your patient collections from $600 a week to $6000 a week, would you do it? Of course you would! These numbers are from a Manage My Practice client who is collecting between $2500 – $3000 per day in a solo primary care physician practice...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jan 13, 2010 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Finance
I’ve had lots of questions about financial policies since I did a webinar on patient collections last year. Here’s a short course on developing a new financial policy for your practice. The topic is addressed more comprehensively in my book. I dislike...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Nov 12, 2009 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Medicare & Reimbursement
From the Introduction: It has never been more urgent or more difficult to collect patient-responsible balances. The combination of high-deductible health insurance plans increasing in popularity and the massive loss of medical benefits creates a pressing need for...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Nov 8, 2009 | Headlines
By William F. Jessee, MD FACMPE MGMA President and CEO Spend one day in the shoes of an MGMA member and you’ll experience the challenging, changing environment of a practice administrator. Our industry is always in flux: new healthcare information technology to...
