Financial Policy

Hi. This is Dave Kats, and I have a tip for you. One of the best things you can do to avoid disagreement and disgruntled patients is to go over your financial policy. I would say that a majority of times that patients are unhappy with therapists that we hear about is because they didn't understand their financial obligation. Now, chances are you explained it a little bit, chances are you were in the right, I'm sure you were, but they just don't understand it because it goes out of them so fast.

Here's what I suggest you do. Have, of course, a written policy, but don't just hand them that policy, go over the written policy because that way they know they'll be paying for no-shows and they know what the fee is for each service, and they know how they're going to be billed. Then you're going to have happy people because they're getting no surprises. You remember what's been recently just a No-Surprises Medical Act. Well, we have been enacting that for a long time and we think you should too.

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