Ask a physician what they think about capturing charges, and it’s likely they’ll say it’s not a task they think they should be doing. They might say they don’t have the time, training, or interest to do their own charge capture, so they leave it to the back office.
As a practicing physician myself, I’ve heard my fair share of pushback against physician charge capture. Don’t make the mistake of giving in to that line of thinking — for organizations, not engaging clinicians to help in the revenue cycle process can have significant downstream financial and practice performance repercussions.
Here are four areas where physician charge capture adds important business value…
Want to read more? Check out the full article, originally published in Becker’s Hospital Review, here.