Physicians Office Resource Volume 8 Issue 04 | Page 4

Physicians Office Resource Published by Medical Education Resources, LLC Publisher Aaron R. Medaris [email protected] CEO Andrew C. Nimmo [email protected] President John D. Pasquale [email protected] Business Manager Marci J. Hills [email protected] Account Manager Brandi L. Brower Editorial Board Michael Paquin, FHIMSS Barry Craig, MLT (NCA), CLC Contributing Editor Robert Posner, MD IT Director Robert Farrell Sr. Director, Professional Communications Sean Hanlon Creative Director, SEO Specialist Keith A. Katsikas Jr Copyright © 2014 To continue your free subscription of Physicians Office Resource magazine, please complete the Business Reply Card at the center of this magazine and drop in any USPS mailbox. If you are a manufacturer of medical products or provide services to medical professionals and would like to advertise your products or services to over 100,000 of the nation’s top physicians who do in-office testing, please call [phone] or visit: www.physiciansofficeresource.com for more information. Physicians Office Resource FROM THE PUBLISHER Dear Readers, Well the results are in and for the most part things are looking relatively well for physicians across the U.S. according to a recent Medscape study on physician compensation for 2013 (see www.medscape.com/ features/slideshow/compensation/2013/public). From the looks of things it’s not because reimbursement rates are on the rise or because of the ACA has brought financial success to all of you (time has yet to tell what effect that will have), but from the most part it looks like physicians have been stepping up to the plate and making things happen for themselves. Many of you are seeing an increased number of patients and spending longer hours at the office. Others have made changes to front office logistics or changed payer systems to increase the bottom line. Many of you have taken our advice and added a new ancillary service to your office to increase revenue. Others have added new lab testing equipment or other diagnostics to your practice; which not only helps reimbursements but makes things much easier on your patients. Do you know how grateful your patients are when they don’t have to run from your office to the hospital or lab to get test done? Take it from me, a guy who made a few more visits to the doctor’s office then normal last year. We as patients are extremely happy when you have all of those services in your office. Obviously, there will be those that you will have to send elsewher