Exploring eClinicalWorks® Billing Options for Small Providers
Being a small medical practice in today’s healthcare industry is more challenging than ever; the transition to EMRs and integration of technology are, many times, distracting practices from their main focus: to deliver quality care to patients. These challenges have many small medical practices exploring eClinicalWorks® billing options.
In-House vs. Outsourcing
Small medical practices are faced with these two options and those in-between. Ideally, they’d like to take care of eClinicalWorks® billing themselves in-house, as this seemingly is the most cost-effective. The problem many come to realize is how complex and time-consuming this task really is.
Billing in the healthcare industry is much more involved than in other industries, as it involves insurance companies, the government, and the patients themselves. Claims submissions, time sensitivity, eligibility requirements, and reporting, are all extra billing requirements on top of: patient billing, collections, and customer service; in addition, all of these processes have to be navigated with complex EMR systems.
Basically, the task of eClinicalWorks® billing for small medical practices is more than a part-time effort, especially, if providers want to offer their patients excellent billing support.
These pain points, generally, cause providers to explore their eClinicalWorks® billing options; this may include hiring a part or full-time billing expert in-house, having existing staff undergo training for expertise with eClinicalWorks®, or outsourcing billing in part or completely.
A Case for Outsourcing
The biggest problems with hiring in-house or dedicating existing staff for billing are: limited support for patients, limited expertise and resources, and hiring in-house costs more money than outsourcing.
When outsourcing eClinicalWorks® billing to a service that only works with this EMR solution, small medical practices will get an entire company with expertise and experience. So, not only will providers pay less for the billing solution than if hired in-house, they’ll also give their patients better customer service and have more experts working on their behalf to increase the bottom-line.
Outsourcing makes sense for many small medical practices, yet only when the billing service is: vertically minded, has no contracts, has transparent pricing, and provides excellent customer service to patients and providers.
EMR Billing Solutions has all of these favorable traits and is offering small medical practices an excellent option to take care of their eClinicalWorks® billing.