Don’t expose your practice to HIPAA privacy violations, revenue losses or patient dissatisfaction due to preventable front desk slipups. Even the simplest front desk mistake can result in serious financial and legal disasters for your practice. But there is something you can do about it …
You can help your staff quickly and easily fortify their front desk skills with this essential 5-part online training series presented by practice service and management expert Tracy Bird, FACMPE, CPC, CPMA, CEMC, CPC-I. During each training in this series, Tracy will provide your staff with practical, step-by-step tactics that will help them overcome the most common, and costly mistake areas at your front desk. These include:
Part 1: Essential Front Desk Fundamentals that Guarantee Success
Part 2: Prevent Front Office Patient Service Disasters – Fast
Part 3: Secure First-Rate Phone Etiquette Skills at Your Front Desk
Part 4: Head Off Front Office HIPAA Nightmares (and Hefty Fines)
Part 5: Boost Your Front Desk Patient Collections Quickly and Easily
BONUS 1: Sign up for this 5-part series today and receive a FREE on-demand recording of the online training entitled: “Simplify Difficult Conversations w/Patients, Boost Pay Up” (a $277 value, yours free).
BONUS 2: All 5 parts have a Skills Quiz Sheet included to help you quantify the improvement of your front desk team’s abilities. This is perfect for both your new and existing staff. This series will help you better protect your practice by providing your staff with the tactics to stop the most dangerous front desk errors. You’ll find a breakdown of each of the five sessions included in this training series below.
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Front Desk Fundamentals that Guarantee Success
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Having a smooth-running front desk comes down to the fundamentals. How you train and hold your front office staff accountable for these core competencies is key. The problem is finding the time to implement a structured training plan with everything else you’re responsible for. This training will help.
Training Takeaways:
- Master front desk professionalism with office staff and patients
- Avoid legal front desk triggers that can land your practice in court
- Communicate more clearly to reduce patient no-shows
- Crack medical terminology basics to reduce errors
- Improve productivity with simple, effective computer skills
Prevent Front Office Patient Service Disasters – Fast
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Your reception staff are the face and personality of your practice. When poor front office service leads to active patients leaving your practice, it’s like throwing your practice’s hard-earned money into the garbage. It’s so much harder and more expensive to bring in new patients than to keep your existing ones. This training (with the phone etiquette session) will help your front desk deliver superior service and provide you with the necessary tools to track skill improvements.
Training Takeaways:
- Turn the angriest patient into your biggest cheerleader with this proven strategy
- Use redirection to cut off even the chattiest patient and leave them smiling
- Create unforgettable first impressions in 30 seconds that patients will remember
- Build strong patient relationships without crossing any lines
- Incorporate the perfect phone greeting and send patient satisfaction through the roof
Secure First-Rate Phone Etiquette Skills at Your Front Desk
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Consider that 80% of new patients use a phone call as their first contact with your practice. Do you even know how many new patients you are losing due to poor phone etiquette? The only way to KNOW for sure is to have a telephone etiquette plan in place. This online training will help you do just that. It will provide you with confidence that your patients are being treated the way your practice’s success requires.
Training Takeaways:
- Head off negative online reviews with proven phone greetings
- Make patients feel welcome even when they have to be put on hold
- Key phrases that tell your phone staff it’s time to escalate a call
- Improve patient information collection accuracy and patient satisfaction
- Make sure your patient return phone calls never get missed again
Head Off Front Desk HIPAA Nightmares & Massive Penalties
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.When it comes to HIPAA compliance, even a small front desk error can lead to serious violations and hefty financial penalties. A patient just has to “feel” like their privacy rights have been infringed upon, and before you know it, they’re filing a complaint against your practice online, and you’re being audited. HIPAA errors at your front desk can be some of the most difficult to resolve unless you know how. That is exactly what this training is designed to do:
Front Desk Training Takeaways:
- Finally understand routine vs. non-routine disclosures, never violate this HIPAA standard again
- Dodge discarded patient information violations – even the smallest piece of paper matters
- Stop patient HIPAA complaints in their tracks with proven protocol
- Protect customer info on your computer screen with simple to follow policy
- Modify your check-in process quickly and inexpensively to prevent common privacy mistakes.
Boost Your Front Desk Patient Collections Quickly and Easily
Live online training on Wednesday, August 23rd at 1:00pm ET OR,
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Whether your patients pay what they owe before they leave your office is almost entirely due to the skill of your front desk staff. And getting them to pay is no small task, especially if your team doesn’t have the necessary skills. This training will provide your front office staff with proven, practical tactics that will help them significantly improve their front desk collections (without ticking off your patients).
Front Desk Training Takeaways:
- How preparation and alternative payment options can boost your pay up
- Bring in overdue balances with simple to implement processes that really work
- Identify the best collection technology tools that’ll reduce your bad debt
- Implement key patient “touchpoints” to significantly increase pay-up
- Master verification of benefits before you bill and increase profitability
A message from presenter: Tracy Bird, FACMPE, CPC, CPMA, CEMC, CPC-I
Past Webinar Reviews:
“Great information that I will be able to use and take back to my staff. The speaker provided a wide variety of information relevant to this subject that can be used and trained to in any office.”
– Julie Monk, Valley View Health Center
“I thought the tips were very useful and will introduce them when training or re-training. The webinar was great!”
– Danielle Soltesz, Reproductive Medicine Associates
“Explained real life scenarios. The Q & A was great! Overall, the webinar was great.”
– Bianca Pitman, Front Office Operations Manager, Oakland Integrated Healthcare Network
“It was a great reminder of what we need to improve on. It was very informative!”
– Mollie Malone, Practice Coordinator, Health Source of Ohio
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Tracy has over 40 years of experience in various specialties in the areas of practice management, billing and coding, including training, communications, and policy and procedure development.
She is an ACMPE Fellow with MGMA, a Certified Professional Coder (CPC), a Certified Professional Medical Auditor (CMPA), a Certified Evaluation and Management Auditor (CEMC) a Certified Professional Medical Coding Curriculum instructor (CPC-I), and an AAPC Fellow. Tracy is co-founder and past president of the NE Kansas Chapter of AAPC, a past president of MGMA-GKC and is currently serving as the Chair of the Certification Commission for National MGMA.
Sherri Lewis has over 15 years working with a variety of medical professionals helping to ensure a thriving private practice. She has worked in all administrative positions, top to bottom assisting with reception, billing needs, credentialing, contracting, management, and more.
She brings a robust understanding of all the details and requirements of having a successful and profitable revenue cycle with compassion for both patients and providers and their staff trying to navigate the financial side of their private practice. She is a Certified Professional Biller with the American Academy of Professional Coders and owner of Billing Simplicity, LLC.
