eClinicalWorks® RCM Can Be The Lifeline Of Your Medical Practice

eClinicalWorks® RCM can be the stimulus of your medical practice, whether it is a private practice or a practice you operate for no profit at all. In order to maintain the activity in your practice, you need to have effective and efficient registration practices, effective insurance verification, and effective processing methods for claims. This process seems simple but when you practically perform these tasks, then only you realize how complicated it is.

These are the questions a medical practice usually aks:

• How long does it take your medical practice to collect payments?
• What is your claim-denial rate?
• Do you have any accounts receivable aged at over 90 days?

Because of these questions one can imagine the complexities involved in Medical Billing.

But before a medical practice even start thinking about complexities, it will need to make sure that it is performing the basic tasks of medical billing cycle effectively.

Registering Your Patients

Patient registration is at the beginning of revenue recycle. Patient registration all starts when a patient contacts you to set up an appointment. The employees at your front-desk are usually responsible for collecting essential information, such as insurance information.

In case you have an online portal for patient registration, the patient should be informed that he or she can go online to finish the registration process. If the patient has not completed the information after a certain amount of days before the scheduled appointment, a staff member should follow up with the patient. This is important because insurance information will need to be verified.

Verifying The Eligibility Of The Patient’s Insurance

The most basic step in the medical billing cycle is insurance verification. With eClinicalWorks® RCM this can be done efficiently saving a lot of time. However, due to complexities involved in the medical billing process, for some patients one may need to perform this task manually.

Patient Collection Process

You can also make improvements to your collections process when you send the bill days closer to the date when the patient received a treatment or service at your practice. You can accomplish this by sending patient statements periodically.

You could also choose to send the statements as soon as you receive payment from insurance or you could fix a specific date or day when you want to generate patient statements. You will find that you will collect payments faster if you follow this process.

With eClinicalWorks® RCM all these basic steps can be performed efficiently as this is the best eClinicalWorks® based medical billing service. For more information please email or call (877) 461-2641.