office manager advocacy

Become a Certified Medical Coder in Five Days!

Lack of adequate training can cost any medical practice dearly in terms of lost revenue due to inaccurate reimbursement. Erroneous claims may even trigger a carrier audit. That is why it makes good business sense to employ certified professionals to handle your reimbursement process. Accredited professionals are more confident in their abilities and able to use that heightened knowledge to train others in the practice. Other benefits include enhanced efficiency and productivity, and a higher level of financial security for the practice.

SDCMS Announces Its Inaugural "Outstanding Medical Office Manager" Contest

Does your physician think that you are the best office manager in San Diego County? We want to hear about it! SDCMS wants to recognize San Diego County's most outstanding medical office manager, i.e., someone who goes above and beyond their job description, who anticipates problems before they arise, who works efficiently with the practice's time and resources, and who strikes the right balance between control and morale when supervising staff.

A Message From Your Executive Director

I often wonder who has the harder task: the physicians who see patients or the office managers who make everything work up to, but excluding, seeing the patients. This, our third-annual issue of San Diego Physician, is focused exclusively on physicians' office managers because we at the San Diego County Medical Society (SDCMS) recognize that absent effective support from office managers and the office staff, physicians cannot do their job of healing patients.

August 2009 "San Diego Physician" • Office Manager Advocacy

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Features A Message From Your Executive Director Tom Gehring Medical Records Laura A. Dixon, BS, JD, RN, CPHRM, and Susan Shepard, MSN, MA, RN, CPHRM Say You're Sorry Jeffrey J. Denning Make the First Day Count Jeffrey J. Denning Fire Up Your Staff Jeffrey J. Denning Try This Idea Jeffrey J. Denning Backup and Disaster Recovery Gregg Blundell and Ofer Shimrat Become a Certified Medical Coder in Five Days! The Art of the Science of Coding Karrie May Cash Payment From Medi-Cal Patients • Refund Request Time Limits • Pamphlet Translation Requirements Lauren Wendler SDCMS Announces Its Inaugural "Outstanding Medical Office Manager" Contest Influenza Season 2009-10 Wilma J. Wooten, MD, MPH, and Karen Waters-Montijo, MPH Marcus Welby? Ronald J. Glasser, MD Fictitious Name Permits • Negotiating Rates With Nonprofits • Registering a Second Office With the DEA Marisol Gonzalez Maintain Your Practice's Profitability Rhonda Buckholtz

The Office Manager Advocacy Issue

We at the San Diego County Medical Society (SDCMS), in addition to doing everything in our power to support our member physicians, understand that their office managers need our support as well. That is why we have on staff, in addition to Marisol Gonzalez, our full-time physician advocate, Lauren Wendler, our full-time office manager advocate!