August 2nd, 2007
Getting paid is key to medical success
Perhaps no area of medicine will change as much in the next five years as payment processing, according to a new McKinsey report. (Illustration from the cover of the report.)
Right now a key difference between a practice’s success or failure is having an assistant who can work the system and get you paid. Tossing the bills to a billing company isn’t good enough.
That’s because, unlike as in credit card processing, there’s always someone looking over your shoulder. Getting charges accepted, and paid, is a skill set which goes far outside medicine.
So what would you like to see in a new medical billing system? What’s the best way to keep fraud out but keep money flowing in? And how much control of your own billing system are you willing to give up for the benefits?
Discuss, and we’ll get this beat started.
Dana Blankenhorn has been a business journalist since 1978, and has covered technology since 1982. He launched the Interactive Age Daily, the first daily coverage of the Internet to launch with a magazine, in September 1994. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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