Medical Billing in a Box

We have released our newest package for medical billing services just starting out. It contains 5 books, 5 special reports, 50 blank CMS 1500 forms, our completed package of CMS 1500 forms for mental health billing, workbook, and for a limited time we are offering a free 15 minute consultation with either Michele or myself. The five special reports are not available elsewhere. We wrote them special for this package.

The five special reports are:

"Insurance Denials - Learn How the Pros Handle Them to Get Your Claims Paid"
"The Secrets of Authorizations and Referrals, What You Need to Know to Prevent Denials"
"How Participation With Insurance Carriers Affects Your Billing Business"
"How to Choose the Best Practice Management System for Your Business"
"Learn the most effective marketing technique we’ve ever used"

The books are:

"How to Start Your Own Successful Medical Billing Business"
"12 Marketing Strategies To Grow Your Medical Billing Business"
"How To Complete a CMS 1500 (HCFA 1500) Completely and Correctly - Line By Line Box By Box"
"Secrets to Signing Up Your First Doctor"
"Basics of Medical Billing"

For more information on this brand new package visit Medical Billing Live

Training New Employees

One of the most difficult tasks in the medical office is training new employees. Even when an employee comes to you with lots of experience, it does not mean that the new employee will be able or willing to do things the way you want them done. We find that some of the people we have hired who come to us with experience tend to do things the way they learned in a previous office. That is not always a good thing.

Some new employees learn much quicker than others. When we hire a new person, we try to establish what their strong and weak points are as soon as possible. We find some people are natural at making and answering phone calls and some hate talking on the phone and do not do as good a job. Sometimes when we hire a person for a job we find that they are better suited for a different one than what we intended. We try to work around the employees strong points as long as it works for us. But if we hire someone for a specific job and they are no good at it we find it best to let them go before we waste any extra time in training. If we can use them in another position that they are good at, that is great but if it isn't working, we let them go.

Training a new worker is a huge time consuming job which keeps others from getting their own work completed. If you don't watch all the work they do to make sure it is being done the way you want it done you may find yourself redoing it. This can take longer than it would have taken to do it yourself. Generally speaking we find it takes months to a year before a worker is trained well enough to stop checking their work.

When first starting to train a new employee it is crucial that you check everything they do. As the new employee gets more experience we've learned to spot check the areas we feel were potential problem areas for them. With all the things there are to learn in the medical billing field it takes time to develop a great employee. Once we have a great employee we do everything we can to keep them happy so they stay on. It's so much easier to keep a great happy worker than it is to train a new one.

Secrets to Signing Up Your First Doctor

We recently completed our latest medical billing e-book and added it to our e-books for sale on our website Medical Billing Live. We wrote this book because so many people starting this business don't understand why doctors hire billing services or how to approach these doctors to get their business. We offered some marketing suggestions as well and explained how important your marketing efforts are, especially at the beginning of your carreer.

When we started our business in 1994 we really did not understand what our worth could be to a medical office. It took years of experience to fully understand why a medical billing service could do a much better job at bringing in the money than many offices can do in-house. Our efforts in this book were to shorten the learning curve for those who want to get started in this business.