Guest guest Posted January 9, 2011 Report Share Posted January 9, 2011 So, officially my partner and I have been open for 3 months. Seeing lots of patients because I only moved 8 miles away. Not getting paid, because of screw ups with credentialing that we started over 6 months ago because I only moved 8 miles away. But I am happy Struggling financially, and with volume. Partly it is just such a huge learning curve, referals, prior auths, billing, coding, etc. But I have a college student on break right now helping with some of the busy work, and I feel like each day I gain slightly in my efficiencies. And I believe that the financial piece will come. And many wondeful patients, so grateful to have a differnet model of care. Plus I've gotten several beautiful plants and some amazing peanut butter balls at Christmas. But I could use a little help. Basic coding, not to bad. Using Office Ally for both EMR and the billing piece, not great training from them but the system is user friendly and I find pretty intuitive to use. However, for not straight forward things I can't find an easy way to determine what to charge and how to code. Two examples, when it comes to meds, do people in general just mark up the cost of the medication? Or like a mirena IUD, do I charge 10% more than what it cost me? Second example, I have started doing more and more dry needling, advice on coding that? Anyway, had a melt down today because I can't imagine actually ever going on vacation again. But then I snapped out of it and (honestly my PMS got better) and I reminded myself how grateful I am for the opportunity to not be at my old job seeing 22 patnet in 6 hours, and watching the moral of the staff get worse daily Thanks for all those that have done this before me, to keep me dreaming about this so that I finally did it. Just the other day, a wonderful couple of mine were leaving my office, and said, "hey isn't there some doctor in Farmington that does this kind of thing, like answer her own phone?". Yup, I said, she has been a great inspiration for people like me, burned out by the bigger systems that just put more barriers between patinets and their providers. They left my office, grateful for people like Jean! Jenn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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