Scheduling is at the heart of healthcare. Poor, or even mediocre, scheduling processes can cost a small clinic hundreds of thousands of dollars. Creating and using meaningful appointment types to optimize scheduling for your practice is important for the bottom line and decreasing stress and burnout. This is a challenge for any practice. First and foremost, the scheduling … [Read more...] about Creating and Using Meaningful Appointment Types
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COVID-19 Proves a Need for Health System Overhaul to Salvage the Future
Rural areas feel the pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic in a disproportionate way with greater challenges, including older populations, more health problems, economic disadvantages, and fewer and less sophisticated medical facilities, and more. Where I practice, West Alabama—the center of the stroke belt—exemplifies these characteristics. This area was underserved before the … [Read more...] about COVID-19 Proves a Need for Health System Overhaul to Salvage the Future
Planning a Comeback? Let us Help.
Covid-19 is changing our world forever. Every healthcare practice looks drastically different than 6 weeks ago. Before the pandemic, health care was struggling; COVID-19 has magnified the struggle. Let's not waste the opportunity to re-evaluate and strengthen our practices. Long gone are days when a practice could simply see patients and expect … [Read more...] about Planning a Comeback? Let us Help.
Using Payroll Protection Program Money
The Payroll Protection Program (PPP) is a Small Business Association program funded by the CARES act. It was enacted as part of the federal government's stimulus package in response to the COVID-19 pandemic-related economic shutdown. The PPP provides low-interest (1%), no-fee loans that will be forgiven (converted to grants) if all employees are kept on the payroll for … [Read more...] about Using Payroll Protection Program Money
Best March Tax Tips 2020
Businesses and Individuals From now until mid-April is crunch time for your accountant, so timeliness, organization, and communication are in high demand. On the business side, most entities have a March 15th filing deadline. (Sole proprietors and calendar year-end C corporations are the exception.) Even if your accountant can prepare your return now, it may be … [Read more...] about Best March Tax Tips 2020