Your practice’s financial success doesn’t rest in a silo of physicians. Rather, a top-notch insurance billing team is critical to maximizing your practice’s reimbursement, and the first step in maximizing revenue is establishing effective billing and collections processes. Without mastering these basic principles, your employees are at a disadvantage, possibly leading to slow or no payments, frustration and even the implication of billing fraud or abuse by the insurance carrier.
Sarah Holt, PhD, FACMPE, manages a surgical practice that boasts an impressive 13-day accounts-receivable rate. She has designed this Webinar to give your staff the correct tools to overcome the obstacles to effective insurance claims billing. She will show participants how to do the job right the first time, leading to a more efficient medical practice and more satisfied physicians, staff and patients.
During this MGMA Webinar, participants will:
- Examine the critical elements of practice set-up that impact the opportunity to collect for services
- Analyze the essential processes that must occur during the face-to-face visit that support collection efforts
- Review the eight essential predictors of maximizing collections
Date
- Recorded on Sept. 15, 2011
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Sarah Holt, PhD, FAMCPE
Holt is the administrator of several health care organizations of various types—she does practice management for Cape Girardeau Surgical Clinic, Inc. & Breast Care Center as well as Cape Medical Billing Corp a physicians’ billing company. Additionally, she is the administrator of Cape Girardeau Doctors’ Park, an 80-acre complex of 35 medical buildings where a full range of medical services are offered.
Sarah has a PhD in policy analysis with a healthcare emphasis from St. Louis University, an M.A. in counseling from Southeast MO State University, and an undergraduate degree in education. She has done extensive research on how medical office insurance staff members make decisions relating to insurance reimbursement and how complexity influences organizations. She teaches health policy and healthcare reimbursement at the graduate level at Southeast MO State University and speaks on healthcare management topics to audiences of physicians, management and staff. Holt has led Cape Girardeau Surgical Clinic, Inc. to be recognized as a Better Performer numerous times. She is the author of the book, Get the Money in the Door: Physician Billing Basics and the upcoming release Medical Office Billing: A Self-Study Training Manual.
Holt has for many years been is an active participant of the American College of Medical Practice Executives (ACMPE) and in Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) at local, state, and national levels. She is a Fellow in the ACMPE and is a past chair of the ACMPE Board of Directors.
Who will benefit from this Webinar?
- Group practice administrators/managers, operations managers, business office managers, coders, billers or members of insurance staff
Learning Level
How the Webinar works
- The MGMA member will receive an email prior to the live presentation with dial-in instructions and a PDF version of the handout materials
- Listen in and follow along with the handout materials provided in the email
- To view the handouts online via the live Webinar go to the Web site that is included in the email instructions, follow the directions and download Microsoft Live Meeting
- One phone line per registration. Additional connections are subject to additional connection fees
- There is no limit to the number of staff members from your office that can attend the live presentation
Complaint and Resolution Policy
Please contact our customer service department at 1.877.ASK.MGMA to report any issues or concerns with this course.
Refund Policy
All of our eLearning courses are 100 percent guaranteed to meet your expectations. If for any reason you are dissatisfied with your experience in taking an online course or Webinar, we’ll arrange for you to attend another one of our courses of equal value or receive a full refund.
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