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September 2020 Manage Patient AR

This BIG Idea is a deeper dive into managing patient account balances.  The customized analysis described here goes far behind the functionality of practice management systems I have seen.  This practice pulls patient balances for patients not on a payment plan who...

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August 2020 Ken Hertz

Today's BIG Idea is a conversation with my friend Ken Hertz.  Ken's worked in healthcare for years and was a key member of MGMA's consulting group for many of those years.  Listen for ideas on how and why to use data with physicians and some examples where Ken has...

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August 2020 More Physician Comp

Here's another BIG Idea podcast about physician compensation, a popular topic in normal times, let alone now.  The example is from a practice who bases physician compensation on factors like collections, new and established patient visits, wRVUs, and cases.  The...

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July 2020 Map Your Data

This week's BIG Idea is a project I am working on for a group that wanted to analyze their Google Analytics and AdWords data.  We did an initial analysis, and then used Excel's 3D Maps feature to see the data geographically like we had not been able to before.  Once...

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July 2020 Mining Clinical Data

Today's BIG Idea is a project I worked on for a urology group last week.  They asked to mine their data to find patients who qualified for a clinical trial, but the approach we used can help practices with or without clinical trials.  Listen for how we defined Yes/No...

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June 2020 Claims Charges Payments

This BIG Idea is a project I finished Saturday to track claims by file date, charges by date of service, and claims by post date on one chart over the past 16 months or so.  With the pandemic slowing down charges and receipts, this practice wanted to graphically see...

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June 2020 Hit Rate

This BIG Idea is a project I am working on for a neurosurgery group.  We are trying to calculate a hit rate, or the percentage of new patients who are treated within a certain number of months after their first visit.  Listen to the podcast for more information about...

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June 2020 Trending Historical AR

Today's BIG Idea is two projects I have been working on to help practices collect accounts receivable.  For both practices, we looked at historical data to understand trends in collections, especially given the pandemic.  The first example is a practice that divided...

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June 2020 Ideas to Collect AR

This BIG Idea comes from two projects I have been working on this week to help collect accounts receivable.  The first project is for a savvy medical billing company that wants to benchmark and track productivity across their staff and practices.  One of our...

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May 2020 Add Expenses to Your Dashboard

Another way to manage your practice during covid-19 is to pay special attention to expenses.  Putting expenses from your accounting system on your dashboard is the topic of today’s BIG Idea podcast.  Many general ledger systems allow expenses to be subdivided by...

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May 2020 Patient AR

Today's BIG Idea is a couple of ideas around managing patient accounts receivable.  Of course it is best to collect as much as you can at the time of service, but unfortunately that still leaves money to be collected.  Listen for ideas on trending A/R balances,...

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