Oracle Hearing Blog
FAQ’s About the PPP Loan Forgiveness Application
If you received a loan via the Paycheck Protection Program and are hoping to have the loan forgiven; it’ll soon be time to complete the Paycheck Protection Loan Forgiveness Application. All government forms are often unnecessarily long, complicated, and difficult to...
Panic and the Coronavirus
Covid-19, better known as the coronavirus is causing workers to take sick days and patients to stay home. The conventional advice is “don’t panic”, which is always much easier said than done. While you have no control over much related to the coronavirus, what you...
HIPAA Explained: How to Dispose of Protected Health Information
HIPAA, we all know what it means. Vague rules and regulations designed with one purpose in mind, to drive every member of the healthcare industry insane. With that in mind we’ll periodically present an explanation of one topic that falls under HIPAA. Today’s topic? ...
Creating an Effective Patient Recall Program
Patient recall programs are activities that bring the patient back into your office on a routine basis. The program should be directed at both active and inactive patients. The Method The only effective method for activating inactive patients is to have a...
A Better Way to Schedule Patients
A new patient calls for an appointment. Where are they placed in the schedule? If your office is like most practices the patient is given the option of the first few available time slots with little regard to the patient being seen immediately before or immediately...
Can Everyone Afford Hearing Aids?
Are you under the mistaken impression that everyone can afford hearing aids, they just choose not to buy them? The following was taken directly from an online blog. "Well I don't have good news to report, …30 mins ago or so I found out we’d been declined for the loan...
5 Steps to Building a Referral Network
Over the last decade there has been very little growth in our profession. Of those patients who need hearing aids, the percentage who actually do anything about their problem has remained static. A contributing factor to this lack of growth has been the profession’s...
10 Things to Improve Your Hearing Aid Marketing
For us, the senior market is the one that matters most. This may provoke a “duh” moment from many reading this article. However, it’s important to understand how seniors think, what turns them off and what hearing aid marketing and advertising concepts they are...
5 Tips for Handling Patient Complaints
Patients will complain. If you’ve been in business for more than 6 months and you don’t think you need to read this article, think again. You can’t make 100% of the people who come through your door happy. You can try but you will fail, it’s human nature to...
How to Answer the Price Question
You know your practice will get this question at least once a week, if not once a day. Does your staff know how to answer the question? Do you know what they’re saying? One of two things is currently happening. They are either doing a good job of answering the...