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Turn The Cessation of Elective Surgeries Into an Opportunity to Educate

Under normal circumstances, the biggest difficulty practices encounter when trying to engage in physician education is timing.  Coordinating everyone’s schedules, pulling providers out of the operative and visiting rooms, and capturing a practice’s attention during the work day (or worse, during lunch) can be incredibly challenging.  We all understand that physicians are always busy and fitting in additional work, even documentation training to improve their performance, is a challenging feat.

With Shelter-At-Home ordinances and a cessation of elective services around the country, most providers find themselves with only telemedicine visits to fill their dockets.  Covid-19 has substantially slowed down many practices that provide elective services.  Instead of wasting this time waiting for normal life to resume, utilize this opportunity to take care of the tasks that are typically difficult to coordinate.

Most training sessions are able to be done remotely so the providers can login from their own homes.  In fact, this might allow for the most engagement with your providers in a training session as they do not have a full schedule dragging them in a million different directions.  Remote physician documentation training will help keep your providers involved with the practice and their specialty during a period of prolonged downtime.  Better yet, it will help to improve their skill sets so that when they do return to the operating room, their enhanced documentation will allow for optimized reimbursement and fewer denials ensuring that your practice’s revenue stream is healthier than ever.

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Use Medicare Summary Notices as an Opportunity to Educate Patients

Use the MSN to inform patients of their benefits and clarify billing questions. While calling Medicare to explain a patient’s benefits is sometimes better, this is not always the first phone call the patient makes. More likely, the patient calls the provider’s office with questions about their medical bills. Here’s how your practice can use […]

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Help Educate Your Patients to Surgery Costs

A new tool that displays cost differences for certain surgical procedures was recently released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and it may help medical coders and their providers help patients better choose whether to have inpatient or outpatient surgery. The Procedure Price Lookup displays national averages for the amount Medicare pays […]

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Educate Patients for Medical Progress

Patient education is the process by which health professionals and others impart information to patients that will alter their health behaviors or improve their health status. Education providers may include: physicians, registered dietitians, nurses, hospital discharge planners, medical social workers, psychologists, disease or disability advocacy groups, special interest groups, and pharmaceutical companies.

In the current age of information, pharmaceutical companies are in need for ideas to educate patients about new products and techniques to combat diseases and disorders that they suffer from, all in the effort to gain patient advocacy.

Educating a patient brings with it important value additions to brand perceptions as well. In addition to brand perception, other values of patient education includes improved understanding of medical condition, diagnosis, disease, or disability, better understanding of methods and means to manage multiple aspects of medical condition, improved self advocacy in deciding to act both independently from medical providers and in interdependence with them, increased compliance – effective communication and patient education increases patient motivation to comply, patient outcomes – patients more likely to respond well to their treatment plan – fewer complications, informed consent – patients feel you’ve provided the information they need, utilization – more effective use of medical services – fewer unnecessary phone calls and visits, satisfaction and referrals – Patients more likely to stay with your practice and refer other patients, risk management – lower risk of malpractice when patients have realistic expectations.

The bio-pharmaceutical marketplace continues to evolve as new medicines and technologies create valuable market opportunities. It’s in this competitive and challenging environment that organizations with new diabetes products are scrutinizing their strategies and tactics to support market education for patients. Marketing professionals in major pharmaceutical companies can now use benchmark reports that equip them with better ideas to improve patient education.

The benchmarking reports deal with the types and value of medical education and marketing tactics used to inform patient groups about new therapies. The reports include quantitative survey and interviews that helped identify patient education strategies and tactics that organizations use pre- and post-launch.

Qualitative and quantitative data is presented across a broad array of educational approaches, from public relations and new technologies to advocacy groups and early access plans.

Marketing executives can use this research to compare their patient education strategies and tactics with those of leading organizations.

Kirthy Shetty, Expert Author. More on Patient Education, Competitive Intelligence

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