Practice Management Alert

Compliance:

Validate New Patient Insurance ASAP, Avoid Payment Confusion

Experts: Make sure patient’s insurance info is valid before first visit. Medical practices need to take new patient insurance verification seriously, or they could be in for a firestorm of potential problems — from patient relations to lost revenue. When it comes to avoidable cash flow problems, poor insurance verification is “the single most deadly income killer to practices,” says Cyndee [...]
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