There is nothing that screams 1983 louder than that credit card machine on your front counter. It’s a relic of a bygone era. A paperweight taking up room on your counter and making your office seem like Disco is still all the rage.
Posted by Jim Turner
Oct 31, 2019 8:15:00 AM
There is nothing that screams 1983 louder than that credit card machine on your front counter. It’s a relic of a bygone era. A paperweight taking up room on your counter and making your office seem like Disco is still all the rage.
I wrote about this in my last post but it bears repeating. Many of us (myself included) need a few reminders before we move forward. My recent experience with trying to pay a bill made me even more passionate about making payment simple for your patients.
Topics: Patient Payment Technology, Payments, Patient Experience
The reasons your practice needs to begin taking online payments keep growing. More and more of your patients are accessing bill pay options online. Waiting to make online payments available to them will be seen as a failure to meet their expectations.
Topics: Financial Policy, Patient Experience, Retail Healthcare
My title sounds far fetched, doesn’t it? It’s over-the-top and a bit ‘National Enquirer’. A little ridiculous to think that a payment plan could save someone’s life. But it actually relates to a true story.
Topics: Patient Satisfaction, Payment Plans, Patient Experience
So you’ve got an online payment portal. Now it’s time to sit back and watch the payments fly in. As soon as that URL went live I bet patients were on their phones, iPads, laptops, and desktops eager to pay their bills. And you are there with a cheeky grin on your face, the hero of the medical office.
Right?
Healthcare is often complex, frustrating, emotionally draining, and stressful. Sometimes it pays to take a step back and simply laugh at it.
Topics: Payments, Patient Experience
Posted by Jim Turner
Apr 25, 2019 8:41:00 AM
A lot is being written and discussed about Healthcare Consumerism. With the likes of Apple, Amazon, Walmart, Google, and others entering the healthcare market, the sparks of discussion are becoming a bonfire. And that spells difficulty for an industry that moves as deliberately as healthcare.
Topics: New Healthcare Consumer, Patient Satisfaction, Patient Experience, Retail Healthcare
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