If you want the most comprehensive and results-oriented range of services for your job search, then a physician recruiter with Franklin Joseph & Associates can help. Did you know?

• The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) is the medical specialty society representing more than 93,000 family physicians and medical students around the nation – the only specialty devoted solely to primary care
• Family physicians treat one out of every four patients in the United States. In fact, more than 215 million office visits are made to family physicians each year. This is 59 million more than any other medical specialty
• Enrollment in Family Medicine is down about 80%, this is alarming...

Anatomy of a Doctor’s Bill
$100 for Stomach Pain investigation

• $3.50 Malpractice Insurance
• $3.50 for equipment, repairs, and maintenance
• $6 for supplies, including gowns, tongue depressors, copy paper
• $7 rent and utilities
• $11 office expenses, telephones, accounting fees, advertising, medical journals, licenses and tax
• $29 for Secretary, office manager and medical assistant salaries and benefits
• $41 Amount that goes to the doctor’s paycheck

In one year, this adds up to $155,000, the annual salary of the average family physician. This number rose 3.3% between 2003 and 2006, while expenses increased nearly 25% over the same period.

From ReadersDigest.com

• 94% of physicians take gifts from drug companies
• If reimbursement system is fee-for-services, expect more services
• Doctors get paid each time they visit a patient in the hospital, hospitals only get paid for the diagnostic code, whether you are in there 2 days or 10
• Avoid Friday afternoon surgeries, units are understaffed on weekends and ERs are overwhelmed because doctors’ offices are usually closed
• Often times the biggest names, the department chairmen are not the best clinicians because they spend most of their time being administrators with less focus on taking care of patients.
• Often times the biggest names, the department chairmen are not the best clinicians because they spend most of their time being administrators with less focus on taking care of patients.
• Just because a doctor refers you to a specialist doesn’t mean they really know them
• Unnecessary tests are given to avoid potential harmful lawsuits
• At least a 1/3 of all doctors make decisions fairly arbitrary
• Saying something is a virus is always a good answer to avoid providing the real list of possibilities
• When a doctor tells you to lose 15 or 20 pounds he really means 50
• Though doctors don’t cry in front of people, many do their crying at home about your situation
  
  
  
  

  The Physician Billing Process –

  Twelve Potholes to Avoid in the Road to getting Paid

  Gain real-life business practices that you can adopt tomorrow in your medical practice:

  • Decipher consumer-directed health plans
  • Conduct patient financial clearance
  • Segment patients in terms of financial risk
  • Staff to effectively conduct front-end and back-end billing
  • Capture increased revenue at the point of care
  • Understand real-time claims adjudication
  • Shrink your collections cycle
  • Position your practice for pay-for-performance
  • Work – and prevent – costly claim denials and rework
  • Code appropriately to ensure your fair share of differential payer reimbursement
  • Leverage multiple technologies