4 Steps to Starting Your Own Radio Show and Creating a Consistent Stream of New Patients!
If you are looking for a method of marketing that will consistently bring you streams of qualified new patients, then radio might be the solution to your problems! For the last decade, radio has been that answer for Dr. Allen Minor. Dr. Allen Miner is a very successful chiropractor in Albuquerque NM. He has built not only 1, but 4 successful chiropractic clinics by harnessing the power of RADIO! He has generated thousands of patients, and millions of dollars, through the years, with his very successful radio show “An Ounce of Prevention”. According to Dr. Miner there are 4 critical steps to starting your own radio show. Below is a brief description of each step: 1) The first step, of course, is for you to find your future radio home. What station do you want to have your show on? This is completely up to you and will be different from chiropractor to chiropractor. You want to find a station that you resonate with. Spend some time listening to all the radio stations in your area, both AM and FM. Ask your patients which station they listen to, and if they ever listen to radio shows. Once you find a few radio stations you are interested in, move on to step #2. 2) The second step is to make a phone call to the radio station, or stations, on your list. Ask them if they have room in their schedule for a 30 minute to 1 hour radio show. If they do, schedule a time with them to come in and talk about price and times that are available for your show. 3) Step 3, negotiate the cost of your show. Prices can range greatly from radio station to radio station, but smaller stations usually have lower rates. Not only are the rates lower, but smaller radio stations usually have a more loyal following, so just remember that when you are looking. Also, remember, price is always negotiable. An average show may cost you around $1,000 an hour, that’s not bad. As Dr. Allen states, “We have about 30 people call our office after every show.” 4) The forth and final step after you have achieved all the above, is to create the format for your show. You definitely have the last say about what happens on your show, but you will need a producer to ensure everything flows smoothly. Most radio stations can provide you with a producer, and you can negotiate that into the price. For more detailed information on how to start your own radio show, including what days and times are the best, what topics are the most popular, how to close your show so that you maximize new patient appointments in your office, and much much more – click the link below and listen to our one-on-one interview with Dr. Allen Miner himself!
6 reasons to implement complete chiropractic patient life cycle management in 2013
Let’s face it– humans are fallible and the staff at your chiropractic office will always perform with a certain margin of error. So, if you are looking for a way to increase your practice’s profitability in 2013 you should consider using complete chiropractic patient life cycle management software to help take your practice from good to great. This in turn will keep your patients happier, resulting in improved patient relations, higher PVA and more referrals. Here are 6 vital reasons to use complete patient life cycle management software: Improve patient compliance: Tired of no-shows? Put the power of a schedule tracker to good use by collecting actionable data, such as no-show rates, reschedule success rates, average patient referral rates, and average visits per patient. The workflow management system tracks appointments and generates automated reminders that go right to patients’ phones via text, email, or a phone call. It also reminds staff about follow-ups in a timely manner so that no patient will be left behind. Reduce audit risks: The workflow system opens and tracks tickets for outstanding balance alerts, claim validations, real-time payments, and audit flags. The backlog of outstanding tickets serves as a proxy for an audit risk metric. A practice with a zero audit risk backlog is better prepared for an audit. Avoid patient billing errors: Billing errors make your practice look unprofessional in your patients’ eyes, no matter how great your spinal adjustments are. The Invoice and Patient Billing Tracker enables systematic billing quality assurance as each quality assurance task is mapped to an individual ticket. Improve patient education: Built-in illustrations and animations help break down complicated terminology so patients receive a more understandable analysis. As icing on the cake, a workflow management system can help schedule and track both patient education sessions and patients’ compliance, making sure that patients complete any prescribed exercise routines. Improve clinic teamwork: Workflow management included in best-of-breed software platforms improve transparency and task accountability. These systems are integrated with all aspects of the patient life-cycle including: scheduling, documentation, patient education, billing and analytics. Task management systems ensure that nothing fall between the cracks and everyone’s performance is visible and measurable. Strengthen patient relationships: Well integrated automated systems all but eliminate human error. The chiropractic software you choose to use in your practice should include a workflow task management system to measure patient participation, improve communication and foster execution of tasks. That means even when someone on your staff drops the ball or gets sick, your practice will continue to run smoothly thanks to system alerts and work tasks, that will be pushed to a workbench at high priority until the task is addressed. Needless to say, by using complete chiropractic life cycle management software you will sleep better, knowing that patients aren’t falling through the cracks, compliance risks are addressed, diagnosis and procedure codes are properly matched, claims submitted are clean, unpaid or underpaid claims are quickly identified and each staff member’s performance is transparent. All this so you and your staff can focus on the most important part of your practice, the patient!
Audit Proof Chiropractic SOAP Note Software and EMR/EHR
I have been in the chiropractic software and billing industry for a long time. Managing a business that develops software to help doctors get paid on time and protect their earnings from an audit is one thing. When your income is tied to your clients income, like it is for many of my clients, that is another thing. I have both perspectives. If a doctor does not get paid I don’t either. If they get audited, and lose, we all lose. A lot is said by software vendors out there about their SOAP notes. They are the “best”, the “fastest”, “bullet proof”. I question how many of them have tried to get a claim appeal won with the notes their systems generates. I can say lots of things if I were just selling software one time but clients of mine buy, or do not buy, every day. When doctors using other software lose and appeal or get audited is their first call to the software vendor? I think not. I would like to share real world experience when it comes to audits and SOAP notes, not hot air that will not help you at all, let alone make you bullet proof. First understand that the biggest money maker (most profitable) for insurance companies today is not higher premiums like you might think. It is Audits. A 13:1 ROI has been reported. If I spent $1 on marketing and got $13 back I would be dumping all of my money into whatever gave me that return. So here is my prediction. You, and your bullet proof notes, are going to get audited. That goes for me too by the way. I made this prediction 7 years ago before doctors really knew what an audit was. The frequency and scope of audits has since skyrocketed and broadened dramatically. So it is coming to a head. Insurance companies are actively building technology, processes, and gathering the man power to efficiently audit everyone and become even more profitable doing it. Here is what will happen, if you ask me. Technology There will be automated technology that scans EVERY SOAP note to look for weak points. Of course that means every insurance company would need a digital copy of every note for every visit. Have you heard of some insurance companies requesting notes on all visits? I have. Sophisticated systems are being built and have been around for years to profile what codes you bill and what you charge. Wouldn’t it be nice if the government mandated that every doctor have an electronic health record? Even better if there was government regulated certification so all the systems worked the same way right? That would really help patients so much. Process More on the levels of audits in a bit. I am already hearing reports in some states where every doctor who billed a specific carrier got an audit letter. Man Power Insurance companies are hiring outside independent contractors to conduct the audits. This gives them basically an unlimited number of auditors. They share a % of the money collected in the audit with these contractors. They are outsourcing claims processing, note review, and appeal processing to India and other countries at a fraction of the cost you would pay to defend against them. All the stars are aligning. Every claim, every note, audited in real time. There is one final automation that will happen and is actually happening already on some level. The technology will “pluck” providers and spoon feed them to audit teams. The audit team will on lower levels be more computers. The computers will generate threatening letters. Some doctors will pay just to avoid the hassle. With this in mind your question should be “How do I minimize the chance that when the technology scans my profile, I do not look like easy pickings”. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Brian_Capra
Dr. Troy Dreiling on Building a Successful Practice
Listen to Dr. Troy Dreiling on Building a Successful Chiropractic Practice https://youtu.be/cn370UIhLwA Dr. Troy Dreiling knows that Genesis Chiropractic Software offers a leading-edge chiropractic office profitability management solution. Its all-in-one Internet-based system includes accountable and transparent billing service, state-of-art touch-screen SOAP notes, advanced patient scheduling, and real-time monitoring for compliance and audit exposure. Billing Precision’s unique value stems from its ability to level the playing field with payers and get chiropractors paid in full and on time by capitalizing on modern Internet technology and billing network effect.
