Creating a more efficient physician practice: six steps toward turbo-charged practice revenues.
Health care providers face reimbursement and expense constraints. They will be helped in streamlining their operations by adopting financial benchmarks and following a six-step formulation to improve and assess their efficiency and effectiveness. These include: revenue and cost analysis; improved staffing and training procedures, attention to scheduling; developing functional patient intake procedures; selecting appropriate information systems; and evaluating the patient encounter by surveys and the examination of financial results.
Boggs
Kevin A
KA
kboggs@gsorad.com
D000555:Ambulatory Care Information Systems; D001071:Appointments and Schedules; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005376:Financial Management / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D007318:Inservice Training; D010559:Personnel Management / Q000379:methods*; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States