Practice Management Alert

Weigh the benefits of offering in-home visits to your patients. If your practice is looking for a way to keep your patients happy while reducing your expenses, house calls could be the answer for you. With decreasing patient numbers and an increasing elderly population, physician practices are looking at every alternative to "traditional" medicine to help improve patient care and to make money. Offering house calls is one option some practices are looking at. Check out this expert advice to find out if house calls are right for your practice. Count Better Patient Care Among the Pros The first step in deciding whether house calls are right for your practice is to look at the benefits of this increasingly popular option. Home visits let the physician "see the entire circumstances of the patient and therefore provide better and more patient-centered care," says Constance Row, executive director of the American Academy [...]