Running a successful gastroenterology (GI) practice is incredibly rewarding—but it’s definitely not easy.
As insurance reimbursements continue to decline for gastroenterology practices, GI specialists like you may feel frustrated by escalating costs, mounting administrative work, and staffing issues.
If you’re juggling too many tasks at once, chances are you’re leaving very little time to focus on what matters most—patient care. You need to find a way to streamline your practice and regain work-life balance.
The solution? Remote healthcare staffing by DrCatalyst.
Stop Struggling with Task Juggling
The pressure to maintain high-quality patient care while managing administrative tasks can be overwhelming for most gastroenterologists. Here are three of the most common challenges GI specialists face:
According to the American Journal of Gastroenterology, GI practices faced a 33% decline in average reimbursement for GI procedures from 2007 to 2022. Rising operational costs can quickly eat into your clinic’s budget. Inefficient billing processes and insurance claim denials can also lead to revenue losses.
Ultimately, you face the challenge of delivering the best care while managing expenses to keep your practice financially stable. After all, your practice is a business. To ensure it stays profitable, you need to manage your finances effectively.
Inefficiency in a GI clinic can stem from disorganized workflows, outdated technology, and manual administrative tasks. These inefficiencies can lead to workflow bottlenecks, longer patient wait times, increased error rates, and a decline in overall patient satisfaction.
For example, helping your team manage patient records, schedule appointments, and manual referral management will take time and attention you could otherwise spend on patient care.
Staffing is another major challenge. Finding and retaining qualified healthcare professionals, especially in specialized fields like gastroenterology, can be difficult. High turnover rates and staffing shortages can lead to increased workload among existing staff members, burnout, and potential lapses and oversight in patient care.
While it may sound like the perfect solution, hiring and training new employees can cost a substantial amount and strain your clinic’s resources.
While running a GI clinic is challenging, you don’t have to navigate them alone. By partnering with a reputable remote staffing agency, you can find flexible, cost-effective solutions to inefficiencies, staffing issues, and financial management concerns. Here are the top five remote healthcare staffing services you need:
Coordinating patient referrals involves managing multiple contacts, ensuring accurate and timely communication, and tracking referral outcomes. This can be a daunting task, especially in a high-volume clinic.
Instead of recruiting, hiring, and training an on-site referral coordinator, you can hire experienced virtual referral specialists through a trusted remote staffing company like DrCatalyst. They can efficiently and effectively manage your entire referral process by ensuring:
By supplementing your clinic staff with a fully remote team, you streamline the referral process, enhance patient satisfaction, and improve communication between healthcare providers while saving money.
Documenting patient encounters and medical records is critical but incredibly time-consuming. Gastroenterologists often spend hours transcribing notes—that’s precious time you could spend helping patients instead of typing on computers.
Remote medical transcriptionists can handle documentation tasks with precision and speed. DrCatalyst’s team of certified medical transcriptionists, for example, have a 99.7% accuracy rate in transcribing the audio recordings they receive.
Stringently trained in HIPAA regulations and the technicalities of electronic health record (EHR) systems, DrCatalyst’s transcriptionists ensure your medical records are accurately transcribed and up to date, allowing you to focus more on patient care and less on paperwork.
Physicians are often required to document patient visits in real time. This process involves capturing crucial details about symptoms, examination findings, treatment plans, and patient responses. Because documentation requires precision and focus, it often limits your ability to actively listen and give your full attention to patients.
DrCatalysts’s live scribes can help elevate patient care by remotely joining the audio or video call, documenting the encounter in real-time, having the transcript ready for review in less than 30 minutes, and allowing you to be fully present with your patients.
Obtaining prior authorizations for procedures and treatments is a complex and often frustrating process. It requires dealing with insurance companies, completing extensive paperwork, and navigating bureaucratic hurdles.
While most clinics spend an average of 11 hours on authorizations per provider per week, you don’t have to. Remote authorization coordinators can manage the process for you, including handling paperwork, communicating with insurance companies, and ensuring quicker approvals.
DrCatalyst’s prior authorization specialists help practices eliminate up to 95% of their authorizations, reducing their clinic staff’s workload, streamlining the authorization process, and effectively minimizing patient care delays.
Managing patient inquiries, scheduling appointments, and coordinating follow-ups are crucial tasks that require careful attention throughout the day—you will need a dedicated staff member to handle them. However, hiring an in-house receptionist can be a costly move.
One of the most practical solutions many clinics are turning to is hiring a clinical call center to manage these tasks seamlessly. Virtual receptionists can free up your on-site staff and help reduce burnout by taking care of tasks like:
By partnering with an established clinical call center like DrCatalyst, your GI practice can enhance patient communication, ensure timely responses, and improve overall patient satisfaction—all while saving over $14,000 in annual payroll costs.
Integrating remote staffing solutions into your GI practice is a powerful way to overcome the challenges of inefficiency, staffing, and cost control. By offloading administrative tasks to highly trained and experienced experts, your practice can easily tackle complex tasks, operate more smoothly, and deliver higher-quality care to your patients.
From authorization and referral coordination to transcription and call handling, virtual staffing can help your practice thrive. If you’re ready to take your GI clinic operations to the next level, consider partnering with a tried-and-tested remote staffing company like DrCatalyst!
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