endorsed partners

Endorsed Partner: CHMB Solutions • Billing Solutions

Electronic health record (EHR) software implementation is a complex process affecting physicians, staff, and patients - it needs to be approached carefully and methodically in a multistep process in order to avoid disastrous outcomes:

Endorsed Partner: The Doctors Company • Professional Liability Insurance

Founded by California physicians in 1976 in response to a crisis in insurance affordability and availability, The Doctors Company remains fiercely committed to protecting the practice of good medicine. Today, we are the largest national insurer of physician and surgeon medical liability, with more than 45,000 insured physicians, including 19,000 in California and more than 2,500 of your San Diego County colleagues.

Endorsed Partner: Alexander & Alexander • Legal Services

Founded by John T. Alexander II, MD, JD, Alexander & Alexander has the advantage of understanding physicians and strives to solve legal problems with an efficient, common-sense approach, saving you time and money:

1. No Billable Hours: Billing by the hour tempts attorneys to rationalize inefficient behavior, thereby increasing costs without improving outcomes. We determine our charges by the project - complexity of the service, time spent, outcome achieved, and ability to pay - not the hour.

Endorsed Partner: Coastal Healthcare Consulting Group • Contract Analysis

Bad managed care contracts can be a continual plague on your practice, your patients, and your finances. Many physicians find themselves seeing too many patients in order to maintain cash flow as a result of poor reimbursement from their contract portfolio. You can avoid this stressful cycle by spending a little time to understand your contracts so that you can take charge of your practice:

Endorsed Partner: Chase Paymentech • Merchant Services

Chase Paymentech provides credit card processing solutions for healthcare providers that can improve receivables and better manage operating costs. Accept credit card, debit card, and electronic payments from your patients and ...

• Cut Paper Work Costs: Eliminate the need to prepare and send account statements and save time, expense, and per-item fees associated with processing, reconciling, and depositing paper checks.

• Trim Collection Costs: Reduce the costs and administrative work related to collecting on delinquent open accounts.

Endorsed Partner: American Security Rx • Prescription Forms

YOUR ENDORSED PARTNER BENEFIT:

• Endorsed Partner: American Security Rx (www.americansecurityrx.com), a California Department of Justice and California Board of Pharmacy approved Security Printer (SP-9), provides tamper-resistant California security prescription forms for controlled medications.

• Member Benefit: SDCMS members receive discounts on tamper-resistant prescription forms.

• Contact: American Security Rx at (877) 290-4262 or at info@americansecurityrx.com.

* Potential Value: $300!

Endorsed Partner: Practice Performance Group • Practice Management Consulting

Practice consultants can be a cost-effective way to get the solution to a problem. They bring specialized knowledge you can "rent" by the hour. But will the advice be worth the cost? Whenever you purchase something expensive, you should ask the same question: What's the return I expect from this investment?

1. Specify Your Need: If you don't clearly define the problem you are tying to solve, you could wind up with the wrong consultant. Said another way, you may be buying the solution to a problem you don't have.

Endorsed Partner: SOUNDOFF Computing Corporation • Technology Solutions

The IT landscape is quickly changing - especially in the medical industry. New rules, regulations, and technology "solutions" are permeating the landscape, and it is important you stay informed. Your practice is reliant on productive use of technology assets: plan, purchase, use, maintain and secure. Keep the following in mind:

Endorsed Partner: AKT CPAs • Accounting Services

It is a challenging time to be in healthcare. Overregulation and complex reimbursement models peel away profits. The forces of the payor market favor consolidation of clinics and healthcare providers. Increased demand for healthcare causes staff shortages, which in turn cause higher employee-related costs. Many organizations find themselves providing more care for less profit with more overhead.

Endorsed Partner: Torrey Pines Bank • Banking Products and Services

Checking accounts and lines of credit are the basic products banks offer, but a good bank with talented bankers can advise you on so much more:

1. Personal Attention: When you think of a good bank, a person should come to mind, specifically, a banker who knows you, your practice, and your financial position, as well as someone who answers the phone when you call. Automated phone directories, rotating staff, or lack of personal attention can rob you of the banking expertise you deserve.