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09 Jan The Power of Data in Patient Care and Practice Growth

Posted at 18:21h in Clinical, Financial, Growing Your Practice, Patient Engagement, Reporting, Staying Independent by Darice Warren

By leveraging DAR reports, pediatricians can ensure timely well visits, optimize vaccination rates, manage chronic conditions effectively, and make informed decisions for practice growth....

20 Mar Why Pediatric Practices Outsource Their Billing and Why You Should Too

Posted at 20:53h in Financial, RCM + Billing by Darice Warren

Very few things about medical billing are straightforward, but it’s especially true in pediatrics. Proper coding, modifiers, and changes in Medicaid rules and payer guidelines can turn a simple office visit into a minefield of dependencies. Add staffing shortages and the challenge of finding qualified medical billers to the mix, and it further exacerbates the stress of billing for pediatric practices. When it comes to running a pediatric practice, the days of “one size fits all” are over. You can no longer thrive and work efficiently using a generic, non-specialty-specific EHR, and the same is true for billing and revenue cycle...

Attracting staff to your pediatric practice

13 Feb How to Tackle Staffing Challenges in Pediatric Practices

Posted at 14:53h in Growing Your Practice, Staying Independent by Darice Warren

The national impact of an employee shortage is being felt as demand for physical and mental healthcare services outstrips supply. After spending much of the pandemic innovating new ways to keep staff engaged, many practices are now being served termination notices from core team members....

Providing Care in Stressful Times for Pediatricians

15 Nov Providing Grace in Times of Stress: Solutions for Pediatric Practices

Posted at 15:06h in Clinical, Growing Your Practice, Mental Health by Darice Warren

One common thread that comes up often in conversations among pediatric providers and their staff is that the last several years have been exhausting. Pediatricians in cities, suburbs, and rural areas alike are burned out and they’re facing what seems like an insurmountable combination of increased expectations and decreased practice resources....

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05 Sep How to Increase Staff Productivity in Your Pediatric Practice

Posted at 06:45h in Clinical, Growing Your Practice, Staying Independent by Darice Warren

As the leader of a pediatric practice, you know that being successful involves more than providing excellent medical care. Of course, patient care is your top priority, but managing day-to-day operations takes knowledge, organization, and the right people. How do you make the best use of your team's skills and talents? How can you make sure everyone in your pediatric office is being productive and efficient without crushing morale? These are important points to consider, especially if you want to have a profitable practice. Here are some suggestions for boosting staff productivity. Get to Know Your Team and Show Them You Care Perhaps your...

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27 Aug Establish a Culture of Ongoing EHR Education

Posted at 06:40h in EHR Implementation, Growing Your Practice by Jeannine Hathaway

Electronic health record software is consistently updated in order to adjust to the ever-changing and dynamic healthcare and technology worlds. That’s why training must be seen as a consistent commitment, not a one-and-done effort. Regardless of whether you’re going to switch to a new EHR or plan on staying with your current solution, here are five best practices for establishing a culture of ongoing EHR education. Designate a Superuser To start, designate a superuser. A superuser is a point person who understands the big picture and sees the entire scope of the practice, particularly how different functions, workflows, and data inputs affect...

11 Jul How to Attract and Hire Top-Notch Talent

Posted at 06:48h in Clinical, Growing Your Practice, Staying Independent by Darice Warren

In order to truly provide top-notch medical care at your pediatric practice, you need an all-star team of professionals working around you. Front desk staff, nurse practitioners, medical billers, the list goes on. A successful medical practice relies on a full staff of talented people. A hiring mistake alone, can cost you 15 times an employee’s base salary in hard costs and lost productivity. You are in the medical profession. You are not a Human Resource Manager. You might be a little lost when it comes to hiring for your practice. In this article, I am going to give you the...

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