How your medical team interacts with your patients plays a significant role in the success of your practice. All it takes is one negative encounter and you can count on losing your patient forever. The risk areas are everywhere. These include discourteous phone greetings at your front desk, poor use of language during one-on-one conversations, inaccurate data gathered upon patient check-in, waiting room chaos, and many many more.
Practice manager and expert trainers, Tracy Bird, FACMPE, CPC, CPMA, CEMC, CPC-I, AAPC Fellow, and Pam Joslin, MM, CMC, CMIS, CMOM, CMCO, CEMA, CMCA-E/M, have put together three must-have online training sessions that can help you incorporate an effective phone etiquette plan, significantly improve your data accuracy and collections, and head off front desk customer service disasters.
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Order this 3-Part Front Desk Series in the next 5 days, and you’ll save an additional $100 off the total cost. Or, if you prefer, you can choose each session individually without the discount.
Or, if you prefer, you can order each session individually without the discount. REGISTER FOR FRONT DESK 3-PART TRAINING TODAY!
PART 1: FRONT DESK: FIRST-RATE PHONE ETIQUETTE FOR YOUR PRACTICE
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When it comes to keeping your patients long-term, first-rate customer service seems to be more important than excellent medical care. But without proper phone skills and guidelines, it’s only a matter of time before a difficult situation is handled poorly and you lose a patient.
The only way for you to be absolutely sure about how your patients are being treated over the phone is for you to have a telephone etiquette plan in place. The good news is that it’s relatively easy to implement one, if you know how.
That’s where customer service expert and consultant, Tracy Bird, FACMPE, CPC, CPMA, CEMC, CPC-I, AAPC Fellow, comes in. During her 60-minute online training session, Tracy will walk you through how to effectively identify where your front desk phone etiquette is falling short and exactly how to correct it. You’ll receive proven training tools that will help ensure your staff are effectively trained. You’ll also receive proven management tools that will allow you to keep tabs on your phone etiquette and take action before a problem escalates.
Here are just a few of the step-by-step, proven tactics you’ll be able to implement by taking advantage of this 60-minute training:
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- Head off negative online reviews with proven phone greetings
- Make patients feel welcome even when they have to be put on hold
- Calm down even the angriest patients successfully every time
- Key phrases that tell your phone staff it’s time to escalate a call
- Avoid phone HIPAA mistakes that lead to patients reporting you to the Feds
- Improve patient information collection accuracy and patient satisfaction
- Make sure your patient return phone calls never get missed again
- And so much more…
Who This Is For: This session is designed to help Providers, Administrators, Practice Managers, Front Desk Managers and anyone else responsible for the excellent phone service you want your patients to receive.
Losing just 3% of your patient volume can conservatively equate to over $150,000 a year in lost revenue. Patients are less expensive to keep than to get. And once you’ve got them, they should become the bread and butter of your practice – unless you drive them away.
Don’t assume your staff knows how to deal with your patients over the phone. Leaving your front desk phone etiquette skills to chance is a nightmare waiting to happen. Sign up for this online training today and get everything you need to improve patient service and satisfaction via excellent phone etiquette. You’ll keep your patients longer, and watch your bottom line grow.
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PART 2: FRONT DESK CHECK-IN: IMPROVE PATIENT INFORMATION ACCURACY
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The answer to getting your claims accurately paid and keeping your patients happy lies with your front office staff. Their ability to correctly and completely collect the necessary information from your patients at check-in is the key.
Sure, it sounds easy enough: just ask some questions, get some paperwork filled out, and collect information from their insurance card, right? WRONG. If your front desk check-in team doesn’t have a firm understanding of why and how to get the data you need, you can count on it being incomplete or incorrect.
The good news is that customer service and front desk management expert, Pam Joslin, MM, CMC, CMIS, CMOM, CMCO, CEMA, CMCA-E/M, can help. During her 60-minute online training, she’ll provide targeted, step-by-step strategies to help your front desk staff understand how the patient data they collect is used and the consequences of getting it wrong. Pam will also provide a breakdown of the information on the top 10 insurance cards (front and back), so your front desk staff can collect the patient information you need faster and more efficiently.
Here are just a few of the proven strategies your front desk team will receive by taking advantage of this training:
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- Avoid misinformation from leading to denials and angry patients
- Streamline your check-in process to improve front-desk productivity and precision
- Build patient confidence in your front desk competency and motivate patient engagement
- Maximize staff understanding of insurance plans (HMO, POS, Open Access, Open Access Managed Care, etc.)
- Avoid data errors from referrals and PCPs from leading to an increase in your denials
- Reduce patient refunds by more accurately identifying specialty co-pays
- Avoid pharmacy (RX) data errors from causing delays in patient medication
- And so much more…
Who Is This For? Everyone at your practice who is involved in the collection of patient information will benefit from this session (i.e., front desk staff, administrative staff, nurses, precertification staff, billers, schedulers, etc.).
It takes a million details to run your practice smoothly. One of the key components is the accuracy of the patient information your front desk team collects. By signing up for this online training, you’ll help your front desk staff more efficiently and precisely capture your patient information. This will result in fewer denied claims, a patient satisfaction and confidence boost, patient refunds reduction, and improved overall reimbursement.
Registration for this online training session is limited. Restricting access to this training allows the expert presenter the necessary time to answer questions during the Q&A portion of the presentation. To guarantee access, you should sign up soon.
Order the 3-Part Series for $491 (Save $100) | Order Only This Training Session for $197
PART 3: FRONT DESK: HEAD OFF PATIENT DISASTERS
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Your front desk is the main reason patients leave your practice.
Believe it or not, 96% of patients in a 35,000-patient study revealed that their primary frustration about their physician practice was related to poor customer service.
Your reception staff are the face and personality of your practice. Without the proper skills, it’s only a matter of time before a difficult situation drives patients away looking for another practice that will treat them better. It could be happening right now. But, there is something you can do about it…
Get access for your entire front desk team to this 90-minute online training session with grassroots practice manager and expert trainer, Tracy Bird, FACMPE, CPC, CPMA, CEMC, CPC-I, AAPC Fellow. Your other option is to hire a consultant to come into your practice and train your team, but this can cost you thousands of dollars. However, by taking advantage of this online training session, your entire front desk team will receive the proven training strategies necessary to provide the exceptional service required to keep your patients happy and coming back.
When an active patient leaves your practice it’s like throwing your money into the garbage. It’s so much harder and more expensive to bring in new patients than to keep your existing ones. You should do everything possible to help your front desk have a positive impact on your patients, and this online training is the answer.
Here are just a few of the practical, step-by-step tactics your front desk team will receive by taking advantage of this 90-minute online training:
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- Incorporate the perfect phone greeting and send patient satisfaction through the roof
- 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 amazing first impressions that patients will remember in 30 seconds
- Make patients feel safe with simple steps to protect against privacy leaks
- Build strong patient relationships without crossing any lines
- Defuse an angry patient quickly to avoid waiting room chaos
- Avoid negative impressions with simple eye contact greeting tactics
- And so much more…
Every single time your front desk team interacts with your patients there is the potential for a negative (or positive) impact. The only way to take make sure those interactions are positive is to provide your reception team with the tools it needs. They must understand the importance of patient engagement and how their role can have a significant impact on the entire practice.
Don’t have your front desk interact with one more patient before ordering this front desk online training series. Your front desk can have a positive impact on your patients, as well as improve your cash flow and profitability.
SAVINGS DEADLINE!
Order this 3-Part Front Desk Series in the next 5 days, and you’ll save an additional $100 off the total cost. Or, if you prefer, you can choose each session individually without the discount.
Tracy has many years healthcare management experience in multiple specialties in the areas of practice operations, revenue cycle management, coding, documentation, staff training, communications, policy and procedure development, and workflow redesign. Her experience includes work with private practices, hospital based practices, rural health clinics, and FQHC’s 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).
Tracy is co-founder and past president of the NE Kansas Chapter of AAPC, a past president of MGMA-GKC, is the ACMPE Forum Rep for Kansas, and Kansas City, and previously served on the Certification Commission for National MGMA. Tracy is also an independent practice management consultant with national MGMA. Tracy presents to many healthcare organizations on a variety of practice management topics as well as being a National speaker for MGMA and AAPC.
Pam is CEO of Innovative Healthcare Consulting and has more than 20 years of medical practice management, billing, coding, reimbursement, auditing and compliance experience. She is an engaging presenter via webinar, classroom and conference on various topics that impact each step of the revenue cycle in healthcare practices.
Pam has managed medical practices ranging from single to multi-specialty groups, including ASCs. She is an advocate of process improvement and maximizing and empowering employees to bring about the “best practice” results for your organization. She received her Master’s in Management from the University of Phoenix. Pam maintains memberships in professional organizations to support her continuing cycle of learning in the ever-changing healthcare industry.
