When Healthcare Management Consultants was founded in Ohio back in 1949, it was one of very few healthcare management consulting companies in America. Today, members of two professional organizations for healthcare consultants (The American Association of Healthcare Consultants and The National Society of Certified Healthcare Business Consultants) can be found in every state in the nation.

Why has the business of medical practice consulting grown? There are a few reasons:

Running a medical practice has become more complicated. There are many reasons, including:  the increasing complication of filing insurance claims, the need to manage accounts receivable, the need to comply with OSHA and other regulations, and the necessity of keeping liability insurance coverage in place.

It has become more difficult to focus on the quality of patient care. Medical practice consultants can help busy medical offices preserve the quality of the relationship between caregiver and patient.

Physicians have learned that they can earn more money when their practices deliver care to more patients. This can involve: hiring additional front-desk staff, adding additional care rooms, and hiring support specialists to take blood pressure, do cardiograms, and perform other functions that may not require direct physician care. Medical practice consultants can analyze a medical practice and recommend which of these changes to apply.

And medical practice consultants can review office operations in other ways too. Here’s a list of services offered today by Healthcare Management Consultants Inc. (partial listing):

-  Billing Systems

-  Front Office Training

-  Interim Management

-  Managed Care Systems Read the rest of this entry »