Practice Management: How Outsourcing Saves Time, Money, and Keeps the Focus on Patient Care

Somewhere along the way you made the decision that you wanted to be a doctor and use your talents to help people. You didn’t spend all those years studying medicine expecting to end up spending most of your time as a business manager. Yet, now you find that is exactly what has happened.

If this description fits you, then maybe it is time to consider outsourcing your medical practice management.

If your goal is to spend more time practicing medicine, then you need to find a management solution that frees you from the worries of dealing with medical billing services, bookkeeping, computer software issues, and all those other medical office business tasks that steal your time away.

Medical practice management solutions can not only free you to do what you trained to do, they can improve your bottom line as well. For many physicians, the cost of outsourcing is considerably less than doing it in-house. To compare the cost/benefit of outsourcing vs. doing it yourself, here is a simple worksheet that will help you compare.

In addition to cost savings, outsourcing your practice management and medical billing has many additional benefits.

• You get professional consultants who will help you evaluate and improve procedures and policies.
• Dedicated bookkeepers who will oversee your medical billing, collections, and payments.
• Experts to help you manage your medical records, and more.

These professional services can help you increase the efficiency of your practice and give you the peace of mind and the time to do what you do best — provide the best medical care possible to your patients.

When you find the right fit with a practice management service you can count on efficiency and accuracy in your billing.  You'll receive increased collections, fewer headaches, reduced overhead, coaching, and advice on best practices to run your medical office more effectively.

If you wanted to be a business manager, you could have saved time and money by going for an MBA degree. You chose to practice medicine. Now maybe it’s time to make another choice. To learn more about the cost/benefit for different types of medical practice management, visit this resource page.