New EHR Rivalry May Lead to More High-Quality, Affordable Options
Perhaps you’ve heard of the free web-based Electronic Health Records (EHR) program Practice Fusion. It has a growing user base 150,000 medical professionals.
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Getting on Insurance Panels: Preparing for the Process
For health providers, medical credentialing is the process of getting networked with insurance companies (this is often described as “getting on insurance panels”).
Mental Health Billing: 10 Common Questions and Answers
If you are a mental health professional working in private or group practice, you have your work cut out for you. Serving your clients well, and finding the time to handle all of the administrative tasks of your practice can become quite stressful.
Getting on Insurance Panels: 2013 Opportunities and Challenges
As we approach the New Year, our credentialing team is being asked more and more frequently what 2013 will bring for the process of getting on insurance panels. That’s a good question! While we don’t have a crystal ball, the trends show us a lot. Here are our predictions for 2013.
Should I Hire Counselors as Independent Contractors or Employees?
Are you ready to bring on an additional counselor? Congrats! Your practice must be growing! If you’re like many, you’re facing a tricky decision. This new clinician—will you be hiring him or her as an employee, or as an independent contractor? Practices have done it both ways, and there are pros and cons to each.
Is Your Counseling Practice Built to Sell? (Part 2 of 2) 11 Ways to Increase the Value of Your Counseling Practice
In the previous column, we discussed the importance of building a sellable private practice, and we looked at formulas for valuing a service business. In this column, we’ll review 11 ways that you can make your business worth top dollar to an acquirer.
Is Your Counseling Practice Built to Sell? (Part 1 of 2)
If you’re just getting started in private practice, selling your counseling business is possibly the last thing on your mind. However, it’s never too early to start laying the groundwork for building a counseling practice that will someday be attractive to an acquirer. In fact, realizing at the beginning that there will one day be [...]
Electronic Health Records (EHR) and in Today’s Private Counseling Practice
While some counselors today are reaching for their pens and notepads, others are reaching for their laptops. With the help of Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management (PM) software, counselors are trashing their metal filing cabinets and announcing that they’re “going green!” Eco-friendship aside, a good EHR-PM program can help a practice to organize [...]
