Ancillary Services

Adding Ancillaries – Look Before You Leap!
March 2007
You’ve got to know the territory – and your practice – to be successful.  

Bridging the Gap...How to Offer Alternative Medicine in Your Practice
June 2005
Some of these alternative treatments may pose a threat to your practice, maybe not. Maybe it is an opportunity for you to expand the services you offer your patients and bridge the gap.  

Practice Tips for Increasing Your Reimbursement
August 2003
Procedures that family physicians need to do in-house versus sending them out.  Subject areas: Basic equipment - chemistry profile machine, the CBC machine, the electrolyte machine, and the complete urinalysis machine.  

Practice Tips for Increasing Your Reimbursement
Nov/Dec 2003 
In this article, four ancillary laboratory tests that are simple to do, done easily, and are a benefit for the patient and for your bottom line are examined. Subject areas: Glycosylated hemoglobin machines, H. Pylori, Streptococcus infection, and pregnancy test.  
 
24-Hour Blood Pressure Determination
2004
A thinking physician will screen all his patients over 40 years of age with a C-reactive protein and homo-cystine determination.  

Bone Mineral Density Testing In Your Office
2004
If you can prevent only three hip fractures a year by employing bone mineral density testing, and by giving the proper treatment you have certainly helped your fellow man.  Incidentally, the reimbursement is good for your income.

Body Fat Index Testing
2004
The plan generates the need for testing in your office.  CBC with DIFF, HGB AIR,  EKG, ultrasound for leg circulation, etc.  You have helped the patient and you have increased your reimbursement with body fat index studies.  

Business Savvy Tips for the Osteopathic Family Physician
May 2004
Physicians lose tremendous revenues by sending the patient out of the office for diagnostic testing, rather than doing the testing in house.  

Cardiac Studies That You Should Be Doing In Your Office Rather Than Sending Them Out
2004
Two cardiac diagnostic studies are examined that can be done in your office, simply and easily for the benefit of the patient, and, for your income.  These two pieces of equipment are the EKG (Electrocardiograph) and the Holtor Monitor.  

Glaucoma Testing, Hearing Testing, Ear Lavage, Alzheimer’s Testing
2004
Office based tests for senior citizens to do in the family physician office.  

Procedures That Family Physicians Need To Do In-House Versus Sending Them Out
2004
Family physicians should procure a chemistry profile machine to screen for liver DX, kidney DX, diabetes, pancreatic DX, calcium deficiencies, cholesterol, triglycerides, bile system DX and gout.   

Prostate Exam, Pap Smears, Stool for Occult Blood
2004
If you are any kind of businessman, whose job is to help the patient, you had better find  the time to do pap smears in your office.  

Pulmonary Function Testing
2004
Pulmonary function testing is testing that should be done in house.  Have you ever stopped to think about how many active smokers you have in your practice?   

Skin Surgery: You Should Be Doing It In The Office
2004
Skin surgery is one of the easiest procedures to do in the office.  All that it requires is inexpensive equipment, 2% Xylocaine to numb the lesion area, a 19 gauge needle to draw up the Xylocaine and a 30-gauge needle to inject the surgical area.