You give her more help, and she's making more money than I am. We're not being paid anything for these managed care patients. Maybe you're able to show the doctor the patient-flow statistics that compare his actual office productivity with that of the other doctor. You might then give him ideas on how to improve his productivity.
Medical practices focus intently on charges, collections, and adjustmentsand rightly so.
Without sufficient revenues, the practice would not continue to exist. But revenues must also be efficiently and consistently generated. As revenues per service are continually squeezed by payers, practices must increasingly focus on efficiencies and effectiveness in generating charges. With increasing managed care and decreasing payments for services, improvements in office productivity are essential to bottom-line results. Empty examination rooms or rooms filled with waiting patients are both problems.