- June 29, 2022
- Posted by: Steve Smith
- Category: Urgent Care Billing
Urgent care is all about throughput and patient experience for the 20 diagnoses that make up over 80% of urgent care visits. The biggest expense in urgent care is labor, specifically billing resources and the number one challenge is patient wait times.
So the more patients per hour an urgent care can see, the greater the operational efficiency and the greater the patient satisfaction. In an urgent care setting, if your healthcare IT isn’t contributing it can lose you money.
The advantage of urgent care EMR software is a baked-in, end-to-end workflow that starts by queuing patients into a manageable pace, streamlining registration and insurance eligibility, simplifying charting for the most common conditions, and facilitating collections.
Quite a few years ago, the medical director of an urgent care declared that his team is using the Cadillac of all EMR systems! The point of consideration should be a Cadillac and not a Tesla. Slow, high maintenance and hugely inefficient!
Clearly that’s not how you want your Urgent care to be placed in the competitive landscape! In these times of inflation, choosing a dynamic urgent care billing company can help in increasing your payables.
How to Choose an RCM PARTNER?
In urgent care billing, managing higher volumes of claims, taking care of the backlog remains a pertinent challenge. Especially with this inflation making it difficult, you need someone who can be your best bet at these critical times. Managing your urgent care billing, with collective tasks at the front and back end is what isolates you from the rest.
Reducing the cumulative costs of your urgent care practice is a major area of concern. You want resources that are expert and can take care of everything from head to toe in urgent care billing. Outsourcing of your urgent care billing is what that defines your growth in the best possible manner. At the end, it will help you earn a competitive advantage at these difficult times.