Finding the Right Fit for Your Medical POS System

Operating any type of medical facility comes with its own unique set of challenges beginning with ensuring the highest degree of patient care, keeping up-to-date records, maintaining full compliance with all regulations, as well as having payment processing and account management. In choosing a medical POS system for your medical facility, here are some factors to consider, especially features offered by the system that you choose.

Setting Up your Medical POS
First fact to consider when choosing and setting up a medical POS system for your facility is how your facility operates. Meaning, if you accept walk-in patients your needs may differ from a facility that only takes patients by appointment. Equally important is the size of your facility. Considering these factors will make selection of the right point-of-sale system for your medical facility an easy choice that provides you with the robust service you need for increased efficiency.

Number of Terminals
Next is the number of terminals that you may need. This will largely be based on the size of your practice and the number of personnel in your facility. If you operate a relatively small facility, then you may only need a small number of terminals. Larger facilities may naturally require more terminals to ensure that accurate billing can be completed.

Flexible Payment Processing
Payment processing in medical facilities can be challenging due to the number of variables involved. For instance, some patients may pay cash and then file on their insurance. Other patients may pay a co-pay. Patients may need to pay using their credit card, debit card, check, cash or even with a Health Savings Account. Due to all of the variables involved, it is important to select a POS system that offers flexible payment processing.

Stay in Contact with Patients
Due to the very nature of a healthcare facility, it is imperative that you be able to build a strong rapport and level of trust with your patients. The medical POS system that you choose can play a strong role in helping communicate with your patients through email or even by text regarding appointments, provide important updates, or even follow up with patients after an appointment or a procedure.

Billing
Along with accepting payments from patients, your medical POS system should also provide you with the ability to bill patients and insurance companies in an easy and effective manner. This typically means that the billing feature on your POS should allow for entering proper medical and diagnostic codes. With the right medical POS system, your staff can streamline billing in a faster, efficient, and accurate manner. This can help your medical facility receive payments from accounts receivable in a faster manner while helping your staff to be more productive.

Faster and More Efficient Service
Provide your patients with fast and efficient service as soon as they walk in the door with a medical POS system that can immediately determine any past due balances and review payment information with patients without the need to retrieve bulky paper files. This also helps to ensure greater accuracy.

Simplified Compliance
The inability to meet compliance for various healthcare regulations, including privacy, can quickly put any medical facility at risk for legal repercussions. With a medical POS system, you can ensure that you and your staff are always in compliance and meeting all regulations. As a result, you can provide your customers with improved service and uphold the credibility of your medical facility, which can help your facility to bring in even more patients.

Boost Patient Satisfaction
Your medical POS system can give you the ability to stay in touch with patients and provide the most up-to-date healthcare information as well as promotions. By reaching out to current patients, you have the opportunity build stronger relationships with your patients and boost client satisfaction with your services.

POS system features, like the number of terminals, flexible processing, the ability to stay in contact with patients, plus easy billing are all key in helping you run an effective health care business. Implementing these factors helps create secure, streamlined and more efficient service, simplified compliance, even boost patient satisfaction.

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