Between providing care and managing a practice, it may feel like there’s no time left to fine-tune your workflow — especially for more delicate interactions such as patient payments. Now, CareCredit and Nextech work together to help streamline those patient payments, so that you can focus on getting your patients to “yes.” Try these four strategies to help you have better cost conversations in your practice.

In 2024, artificial intelligence touches nearly everything we do. Forward-thinking healthcare practices are finding they can serve patients better and more efficiently by leveraging AI in the form of healthcare chatbots.

Every medical clinic, no matter its size, needs an efficient way to organize patient data. If you have a small, private practice, you may think paper charting or a custom-built record-keeping system suits you just fine —– after all, you don’t have that many records to keep. The truth is, even a small practice can get huge benefits from switching to an EHR. Holding out on this technology is doing a disservice to your patients and leaving money on the table.

To encourage medical providers to use electronic health record (EHR) systems, the U.S. government has linked their use to Medicare reimbursement, with penalties taking effect in 2024 for providers not using the technology. But avoiding penalties is not the most compelling reason to use an EHR. The greatest benefits of EHR systems are an improved patient experience and a more profitable practice.

It is estimated that every day the average adult makes about 35,000 remotely conscious decisions each day.1 Some decisions are big. Others are small and almost done subconsciously or out of habit. The decision to have cosmetic surgery or LASIK is a big one and can have life-changing outcomes. It’s important for practices to understand that all along a patient’s journey with you and your team, they are making decisions. So, how can you help them decide they want to move forward with the treatment, procedure, or surgery and want you to help them?

From the moment you engage with Nextech throughout your entire customer journey, we are deeply committed to your success. As part of our efforts to help your practice truly thrive, we provide comprehensive and continual training. Nextech is the only solution on the market that has a proven role-based, user certification process for EHR/PM software. When you complete a course on Nextech Academy, you earn credentials in the form of a badge that you can display on your LinkedIn profile. Badges are issued through digital credential provider Credly. After completing a course and earning a badge, check your inbox for an email from Credly to accept your new certification.

Technology has advanced at an accelerated speed over the past 20 years. The internet powered up in 1983, in 1992 we saw the first smartphones, and in 1998 Google started its journey to becoming both noun and verb. And now as we witness the emergence of artificial intelligence, we can only imagine how our lives — and work — will change in the next two decades.

The American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) called for immediate intervention to address concerns with the Routine Cataract Removal with Intraocular Lens (IOL) Implantation episode-based cost measure in a Sept. 26 letter (PDF) to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Upon conducting research with its members, the AAO has uncovered discrepancies in the patient-level data files that arise when performing second eye cataract surgery within 31 to 90 days after the initial surgery. These errors pose a potential threat to the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) score, potentially leading to a negative payment adjustment in 2024.