Tuesday, July 14, 2009

To Swipe or NOT to Swipe?

Sherry L. Krueger Executieve Director

I have come across an interesting program that I need your input on. Verifying benefits has always been excruciating and I have learned that there is a low cost way to cut this large time drain down to size. Rather than sitting on hold there is a way to swipe the patients healthcare card through your credit card terminal and get instantaneous results including current status, deductible amount, copay, coverage and co-insurance amount and much more. Have any of you utilized this service? What have you experienced? It is always helpful to hear the features / services that you like or don’t like from the people that live it everyday.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

just sign up for web verification - it's very straightforward and easy to do with most major insurance companies and it can be done while you're doing other things -- sometimes it's not current with deductibles, but neither are the people on the phone

Anonymous said...

good enough for me!

Anonymous said...

it sounds like a great idea and I for one would use it except I don't recall seeing a patient's insurance card with a magnetic strip to be read by a card reader

Carey said...

Try a patient messaging service. Recare income (automated reminders to patients to schedule a continuing care appt.) alone can bring a practice more than $50k per year. See a demo from the leading industry provider at www.smilereminder.com.