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SoundPractice.net is the first podcast in the world dedicated to medical practice management, providing the practice management community with the ability to tap into the rich editorial content of The Journal of Medical Practice Management® through audio Primary Format : Business Language : English Also Listed as: City : Phoenix State/Province : MD Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of The Journal of Medical Practice Management ® - Financial Management Podcasts Methings.com listings of The Journal of Medical Practice Management ® - Financial Management Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of The Journal of Medical Practice Management ® - Financial Management Time-of-Service Payment: Customer Service and Cash Management By Tom Hajny: This editorial outlines the rationale behind time-of-service payments, the psychological aspects of getting patients to pay their bills, and the major obstacles (and practical hints) to implementing time-of-service collections with office staff. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Your Billing Service Doing You a Dis-Service? This podcast, from and article by Gregory H. Nizich, C.H.B.C., describes a manual tracking system that lets the billing service do all the work and requires a minimal amount of time to maintain. The goal of the system is to keep the billing service on its toes by routinely requesting the status of random claims. Eventually you will become a very polite, but squeaky wheel, and will get the attention you deserve. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Financial Checklist for a Profitable Practice - an Interview with Max Reiboldt CEO of The Coker Group Max Reiboldt, CPA is Managing Partner and CEO of The Coker Group, based in Alpharetta, GA. Mr. Reiboldt oversees Coker's services and coordinates and/or supervises most projects. He works with providers to improve financial operations, develop and implement compensation systems, and institute profitable service lines. His expertise encompasses governance analysis and design, strategic planning, and financial performance. What physicians need to do to stay on top of the financial reporting, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Financial Issues Facing Physicians Today with David B. Mandell, P.C. David B. Mandell, J.D., M.B.A. is an attorney, author, and educator. He focuses his law practice on asset protection, tax, and estate planning matters. He also is a principal of Jarvis & Mandell, LLC, a financial planning firm focusing on tax, insurance, benefits, and retirement planning matters. Podcast interview covering these topics: financial obstacles facing physicians today; the benefits of non-qualified retirement plans; how physicians can shield their most important assets, like th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Avoiding Common Billing Pitfalls: Non-Physician Providers Jennifer Bever, a member of the consulting team of Karen Zupko & Associates, based in Chicago, works extensively with medical practices, primarily in Orthopaedic practices to review and improve billing and collection processes. In this podcast, Jennifer reviews billing protocols for non-physician providers (Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Nurse Specialists), differences between "direct" and "incident to" billing for non-provider physicians, and common pitfalls for this ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Improving Accounts Receivable Performance In this podcast Ms. Davis-Jacobsen describes steps that the "better performing" practices take in order to improve AR, she reviews the components of an effective AR monitoring system, describes statistics and useful benchmark comparisons that are available to medical practices and she summarizes the most important steps a practice can take to improve accounts receivable performance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Bruce Lefco CEO of Health Payment Systems Bruce Lefco discussed the state of healthcare reimbursements and the features of Health Payment Systems, Inc., a Financial Transactions Company based in Milwaukee, dedicated to simplifying the reimbursement process and lowering the cost-to-collect and bad debt expense. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to Get Paid the 1.5% Medicare Bonus by Betsy Nicoletti Betsy Nicoletti, MS, CPC, President of Medical Practice Consulting (www.mpconsulting.org ) discusses in this timely podcast, "Getting Paid the 1.5% Medicare Bonus." She outlines the strategy for reporting quality indicators to the CMS and the difference between pay for performance and this physician voluntary reporting program mandated by Congress. To sign up for the live audio conference on Feb 14, 2007 visit this link - http://conference.mpmnetwork.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to Stay on Top of Practice Finances with Judy Capko Judy Capko, President of Capko & Co., based in Thousand Oaks, California and the author of the best-seller, Secrets of the Best-Run Practices is interviewed by SoundPractice.net. In this 20 minute podcast, Judy reviews the concept of monthly strategy meetings in a medical practice, how to get doctors and others in the practice to buy-in to such meetings, how to best structure meetings to share performance data, and the most important issues and benchmark data to cover on a regular basis. Sh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to Get Paid for Hospital Services with Betsy Nicoletti, MS, CPC, President of Medical Practice Consulting In this 20 minute podcast, Betsy reviews details surrounding physicians getting paid for hospital services. Can physicians get paid if they have to see a sick patient more than once a day? What does group membership have to do with getting paid for hospital services? What is the difference between observation admission series of codes and the observation with discharge codes? What are the rules for critical care? What about the proper way to bill follow up visits after an initial inpat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Much Does it Cost You to See a Patient In this 20 minute podcast, Owen Dahl, MBA, FACHE, CHBC, author of Think Business! Medical Practice Quality, Efficiency, Profits, discusses how much it really costs a doctor (or a practice) to see a patient. No, the answer isn't what you charge for an office visit. A physician needs wise management of costs and an understanding of revenue enhancement to assure long-term success for the practice. But how do you analyze costs in a practice? Mr. Dahl addresses fixed, variable, direct and indir ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Real Time Claim Adjudication with Doral Davis-Jacobsen, BHS, MBA, CMPE Implementing Real Time Claim Adjudication may be a smart move for many medical practices. In this 20-minute podcast, Doral Davis-Jacobsen Manager, Physician Services Consulting Unit Dixon Hughes, PLLC defines the term, how the process of real time adjudication effects accounts receivable workflow, the challenges in implementing the program, keys to success in incorporating the process into the practice workflow, and the impressive impact on the financial performance of the practice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Bruce Lefco, CEO of Health Payment Systems In this second installment of a 3-part series, Bruce Lefco, CEO of Health Payment Systems, discusses their innovative financial transactions promising payment to healthcare providers in twenty days, on both the insurance and self-pay portions on a non-recourse basis. In this 20-minute podcast, Mr. Lefco explains HPS's creative ways to communicate charges to patients and he also describes the SuperEOB concept. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Managed Care Contracting, Top Considerations Susan Childs, FACMPE, of Evolution Healthcare Consulting, in this 20-minute podcast, discusses the most important aspects to consider when negotiating a managed care contract, how to convey the value and culture of your practice to insurance companies, the threat to terminate a contract (should it ever be done?), the most important contract language to address and strategies to use to keep up with the timeline of your contracts. Evolution Healthcare Consulting www.evohcc.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TIme to Sell? Guide to Selling a Physician Practice In this 20-minute podcast, Randy Bauman, Author of Time to Sell? Guide to Selling a Physician Practice: Value, Options, Alternatives, recently published by Greenbranch Publishing (www.mpmnetwork.com) discusses the current market forces at play in the wave of physician practice sales, the key things physicians should look for when they decide to sell their practice, what hospitals are looking for in medical practices, and Randy Bauman's expert assessment of the landscape for physicians sel ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Much Does it Cost You to See a Patient In this 20 minute podcast, Owen Dahl, MBA, FACHE, CHBC, author of Think Business! Medical Practice Quality, Efficiency, Profits, discusses how much it really costs a doctor (or a practice) to see a patient. No, the answer isn't what you charge for an office visit. A physician needs wise management of costs and an understanding of revenue enhancement to assure long-term success for the practice. But how do you analyze costs in a practice? Mr. Dahl addresses fixed, variable, direct and indir ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Bruce Lefco CEO of Health Payment Systems Bruce Lefco discussed the state of healthcare reimbursements and the features of Health Payment Systems, Inc., a Financial Transactions Company based in Milwaukee, dedicated to simplifying the reimbursement process and lowering the cost-to-collect and bad debt expense. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website