Data, facts and instruments on the German health system
What it’s all about
Family physicians and specialists pay too little attention to the fact that practice management and its optimization directly influence billing in two ways.
Billing optimization through best practice alignment.
Physicians have access to a wealth of guidance that provides detailed information on all options for billing their service numbers and leveraging the revenue generated by their work. But in terms of practice revenue and profit, dealing with the digits is only one aspect:
- On average, family physicians and specialists do not implement nearly half of the regulations, instruments and behaviors necessary for smoothly functioning practice operations, the so-called best practice standard. This not only leads to work pressure and stress, but is also the cause of many billing details being forgotten. Only the elimination of this condition leads to the fact that the rendered services can be recorded completely and error-free, because for this the necessary rest and time exist.
- Without best practice orientation, about one third of working time is spent on unnecessary activities. Aligning practice management with standards and freeing up blocked time and capacity gives practice owners the freedom to decide,
- to perform the previous volume of services with less effort and more care, or
- to perform more services in the same working time as before,
which then directly translates into an increase in the practice’s bottom line.
Further information
General practitioners and specialists who are interested in best practice-oriented practice work, also for billing optimization, can find all the details on this in the publication “Benchmarking practice management for general practitioners and specialists – method, application and benefits”.
R2049 