What are the benefits of BCMS Project Access to my practice management?
• As health of uninsured improves, overall cost of charity care declines; • Collection efforts can be focused on collectable accounts rather than trying to collect from patients who are not able to pay; • Practice accounts receivable more accurately reflect assets; • Reduced no-pay patient no-shows helps increase paying patient volume; • Objective third party reviews of patient finances reduces practice staff time spent conducting patient financial assessments; • Easier access to other specialty referrals and ancillary services reduces your and your staffs follow-up time; • Documentation of your charity care helps secure community funding for medications, durable medical equipment, and other support for low-income, uninsured patients; • The participation of the physician community in Project Access catches the attention of legislators and policy makers, who are more apt to attend to physician issues such as tort reform, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates, mental health reform, a
