Thursday, January 19, 2012
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST / 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Sara Larch, MSHA, FACMPE
At the beginning of each calendar year, medical groups feel the impact of deductibles on their bottom line unless they implement “best practices” for self pay collections. Medical practices will have even more self pay patients in 2012 and the deductible category is the fastest growing portion of self pay. This is a result of the number of patients selecting high deductible health plans without the ability to pay their deductible – thus resulting in patients who are underinsured. In this webinar, we will focus on strategies that will help collect deductibles and increase revenue collected at time of service.
We will discuss how to improve self pay collections and attendees will learn:
- The importance of good patient communication
- What the medical group’s staff needs to know
- “Best Practices” in self pay collections at time of service
- And much more
Sara Larch, MSHA, FACMPE, principal, Business of Medicine and co-author of “The Physician Billing Process: 12 Potholes to Avoid in the Road to Getting Paid,” will describe key methods for managing deductibles to increase your practice’s revenue.
You can download the Let’s Collect Deductibles Webinar Handout now.
Question-and-Answer Session — Ask your tough questions and get answers to your challenges with collecting deductibles and managing practice cash flow after the deductible reset.
Who Should Attend
Private practice owners, office managers, billing managers, billing service owners and others concerned about managing practice cash flow and profitability.
About Your Speaker
Sara Larch, MSHA, FACMPE
Sara Larch, MSHA, FACMPE, is a speaker, author and consultant in the healthcare industry. She has more than 30 years of experience in medical group operations in private physician and large medical group practices, non-profit health systems, academic medical centers, and physician faculty practice plans.
Sara currently assists medical group practices with practice analysis & operational improvement, physician practice integration and alignment, facilitating and leading change, and physician and hospital relationships.
Sara is Past Board Chair of the Medical Group Management Association and Past President of the Academic Practice Assembly and the Association of Managers of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is a co-author of “The Physician Billing Process: 12 Potholes to Avoid in the Road to Getting Paid and is a popular speaker at national and local conferences.
