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    Business - Medical and Dental Industry

    The Basics of Online Marketing for Medical Practices

    If you’re not currently utilizing your website, social media, or other online marketing initiatives, you should be. It is more critical now than ever before for medical providers and practices to market themselves online.

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    Business - Medical and Dental Industry

    Time Studies: Efficiency for Your Dental Practice

    If you haven’t ever performed a time study on yourself or your staff, you should! Although it can seem a bit intimidating, the entire goal of the process is to help your office run more efficiently.

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    Business - Medical and Dental Industry

    Tips for Improving Patient Satisfaction in an Urgent Care

    With so many choices available, now more than ever is customer service and patient satisfaction essential to success. By putting some simple strategies into place, an urgent care or walk-in clinic can improve patient satisfaction and boost patient perception.

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    Business - Medical and Dental Industry

    Tips for Marketing an Urgent Care

    Urgent care has been experiencing rapid growth as clinics are opening across the US. Now more than ever is it essential to have a solid marketing strategy in place for continued success in such a competitive market.

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    Tips for Staffing an Urgent Care

    Hiring the right talent is crucial to the success of any healthcare facility. This is particularly true in service related industries such as an urgent care. Your staff is the first and last impression a patient will receive, so how they treat others is a direct reflection of your clinic.

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    Business - Medical and Dental Industry

    Top 5 Medical Billing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

    Set a goal for the practice and encourage the entire staff to help in preventing and reducing costly errors and oversights.

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    Navigating the MACRA Basics

    MACRA is the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015. The MACRA legislation repealed the previous payment plan and replaced it with a new program with an increased focused on quality and efficiency.

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    Business - Medical and Dental Industry

    Offsetting the Cost Issue for Patients

    When patients first hear that they'll need to see a specialist they might resist because they can only think of the potential financial impact such treatment will have on them. The cost issue presents a major barrier to care because patients will mentally rule out the care that they need.

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    Optimizing Patient Flow

    Smooth and effective patient flow in an urgent care center (UCC) can help to avoid delays, reduce wait times, and improve the overall patient experience. It is key to increasing revenue and improving efficiency.

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