Patient loyalty is key to continued practice success in terms of both recurring and new revenue. As patients keep returning to your practice, it maintains revenue stability and as patients refer their friends and family, your practice billing collections grow. In terms of profitability, new patient acquisition is by an order of magnitude more expensive than loyalty maintenance for an existing patient.

Time delay is a major problem of eroding patient loyalty. By the time you discover that you have a patient loyalty problem, it is typically too late to do anything about the patients who already left. Patients typical desert without saying “good bye,” and your only way to discover patient attrition is by observing lower collections and more free time on your appointment scheduler.

Frequent patient communication is the only effective way to reduce such time delay and increase the likelihood of timely loyalty problem identification and resolution. Such patient communications can revolve around any of the practice management components, starting with patient scheduling, to SOAP notes, to special health care literature, to medical billing, insurance payments, copays, and deductibles.

Patient Identification for Targeted Communications

It's convenient to view targeted communications from the patient visit perspective:

• Patients due for scheduled appointment or owe you payments need a reminder.
• Patients that recently had an appointment need results, interpretation, prescriptions, and follow up.
• Patients with prescriptions that are about to expire may need to schedule a visit
• Patients that have not had an appointment for long time need a reminder to schedule a checkup. A screening procedure schedule should be generated using specific combinations of procedures (CPT) and diagnoses (ICD) codes.
• Patients with chronic conditions or permanent injuries need literature about recent progress in treating their conditions
• Patients that have had a long series of appointments need progress reports
• Patients that receive good progress reports need to be solicited for referrals
• Patients with bad progress reports need special literature and special appointments
• Patients waiting in reception area need access to custom information about their specific condition.

To generate such lists of patients, your systems must combine scheduling, medical notes, and billing data in a single database.

Patient Communications Venue The ABCs of the S-Corporation
As small business owners, we all have at least two things in common when it comes to our companies: Keeping other people’s hands off our personal assets and paying the lowest possible taxes (this usually means having profits taxed on our individual tax returns.) That’s what the S-corporation is all about. While the limited liability company (LLC) is quickly taking its place, S-corporation benefits still do outweigh LLC benefits for many chat you have a patient loyalty problem, it is typically too late to do anything about the patients who already left. Patients typical desert without saying “good bye,” and your only way to discover patient attrition is by observing lower collections and more free time on your appointment scheduler.

Frequent patient communication is the only effective way to reduce such time delay and increase the likelihood of timely loyalty problem identification and resolution. Such patient communications can revolve around any of the practice management components, starting with patient scheduling, to SOAP notes, to special health care literature, to medical billing, insurance payments, copays, and deductibles.

Patient Identification for Targeted Communications

It's convenient to view targeted communications from the patient visit perspective:

• Patients due for scheduled appointment or owe you payments need a reminder.
• Patients that recently had an appointment need results, interpretation, prescriptions, and follow up.
• Patients with prescriptions that are about to expire may need to schedule a visit
• Patients that have not had an appointment for long time need a reminder to schedule a checkup. A screening procedure schedule should be generated using specific combinations of procedures (CPT) and diagnoses (ICD) codes.
• Patients with chronic conditions or permanent injuries need literature about recent progress in treating their conditions
• Patients that have had a long series of appointments need progress reports
• Patients that receive good progress reports need to be solicited for referrals
• Patients with bad progress reports need special literature and special appointments
• Patients waiting in reception area need access to custom information about their specific condition.

To generate such lists of patients, your systems must combine scheduling, medical notes, and billing data in a single database.

Patient Communications Venue Payroll Software Review - PayWindow 2006 Payroll System
ZPay Systems has been creating payroll software for over 20 years starting with ZPAY, ZPAY 3 and now PayWindow 2006. This payroll software is easy to use especially if you don't have any experience in accounting.It is loaded with all of the features you could possibly need whether you are a small, medium or large sized business. The reporting center is also feature rich with features such as: Check printing, check register, wage ref the practice management components, starting with patient scheduling, to SOAP notes, to special health care literature, to medical billing, insurance payments, copays, and deductibles.

Patient Identification for Targeted Communications

It's convenient to view targeted communications from the patient visit perspective:

• Patients due for scheduled appointment or owe you payments need a reminder.
• Patients that recently had an appointment need results, interpretation, prescriptions, and follow up.
• Patients with prescriptions that are about to expire may need to schedule a visit
• Patients that have not had an appointment for long time need a reminder to schedule a checkup. A screening procedure schedule should be generated using specific combinations of procedures (CPT) and diagnoses (ICD) codes.
• Patients with chronic conditions or permanent injuries need literature about recent progress in treating their conditions
• Patients that have had a long series of appointments need progress reports
• Patients that receive good progress reports need to be solicited for referrals
• Patients with bad progress reports need special literature and special appointments
• Patients waiting in reception area need access to custom information about their specific condition.

To generate such lists of patients, your systems must combine scheduling, medical notes, and billing data in a single database.

Patient Communications Venue Serviced Offices - Moving Made Easy
Many companies may find that, due to changing circumstances, they'll need to move office at some point; and, as any business owner might imagine, this can be a trying task. That's because the process of moving requires a company to tend to their business' internal transitions while effectively keeping up with customer and client needs. However, there are various means of support which can cater specifically to moving businesses - whether tons, and follow up.

Patients that have not had an appointment for long time need a reminder to schedule a checkup. A screening procedure schedule should be generated using specific combinations of procedures (CPT) and diagnoses (ICD) codes.

Patients with chronic conditions or permanent injuries need literature about recent progress in treating their conditions

Patients that have had a long series of appointments need progress reports

Patients that receive good progress reports need to be solicited for referrals

Patients with bad progress reports need special literature and special appointments

Patients waiting in reception area need access to custom information about their specific condition.

To generate such lists of patients, your systems must combine scheduling, medical notes, and billing data in a single database.

Patient Communications Venue Gmail & Me
Prelude: My initial thought "Jus' b'cos it offers more space it does not have to be good". It was jus' another mail account, the only difference "1GB"! [the marketing team of google has got my attention :-)]. I Started using gmail with some initial reluctance, as the loading time was much similar to yahoo. The user interface :-( was not catchy enough, to get the attention of first time usres.The "speed" was something that caugies of appointments need progress reports

Patients that receive good progress reports need to be solicited for referrals

Patients with bad progress reports need special literature and special appointments

Patients waiting in reception area need access to custom information about their specific condition.

To generate such lists of patients, your systems must combine scheduling, medical notes, and billing data in a single database.

Patient Communications Venue

While traditional phone and conventional mail systems are still in use, Internet is the most obvious choice for communicating with patients. A custom, HIPAA-compliant patient portal is the least expensive way to allow your patients interact with their doctor outside the clinic at their convenience and privacy. Patients can

• Review reminders and schedule appointments.
• Review visit results.
• Ask you clarifying questions.
• Request prescriptions.
• Read special literature and progress reports you sent them.
• Send you referrals.
• Review medical bills and pay invoices
• Track their medical costs

Active patient loyalty management based on selective patient identification for targeted communications at the patient's convenience is one of the most effective way to improve practice profitability.

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