resources for private practices
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4 ways to boost patient portal adoption

You probably already have a patient portal. Over 90% of private medical practices do. Most Electronic Healthcare Record systems (EHRs) include a patient portal feature. They have been pressured to do so by regulations and a more competitive market. CMS requires you offer a patient portal for a Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) measure. This…

Texting for patient payments, estimates, and insurance verification
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Texting for patient payments, estimates, and insurance verification

Text messaging for patient payments Patient payments are hard to collect If you bill patients, you know that it is challenging to collect out-of-pocket. A report by McKinsey found that “…provider collection rates run at 50 to 70 percent for small-dollar liabilities for insured patients and fall to about 10 percent for self-pay patients.” The…