32: Payment Audits in Speech Therapy Private Practice

Going through an audit in speech therapy private practice can be frustrating, time consuming and scary (but it doesn’t have to be).  In this episode, I reveal a few items that a financial auditor will require from you as a provider plus give you important insight to required documentation that will prove the speech therapy visit actually occurred.  I first learned about this piece of documentation (called a signed visit log) from my good friend, Bob Herrmann who owns a very successful clinic in Surprise, AZ called Team4Kids.  Have you ever been audited?  Please comment below and share your thoughts on audits in speech therapy private practice.

In this episode:

01:40 – Listener Statistics

02:15 – Top states listening to the podcast

03:55 – Billing or credentialing services

04:08 – Financial audits

05:58 – Honesty and Integrity

08:04 – Visit documentation

You want to make sure you’re doing things appropriately. So again honesty and integrity those are the two main factors when you have your own Speech therapy private practice and so when you do get audited and it will happen eventually you’re ready for it. So I want to give you some insight to a financial audit. Sometimes they’re caught a post payment auditor or a post payment review. And you’re going to see when the auditor does contact you. You want to be respectful, you want to be kind because again that person is doing their job. They have a boss and they’re just trying to get information to give to their higher ups so you can get through the process. So again you want to stay calm, do the right thing, be respectful, be concerned, be honest and be forthcoming.

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Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 32. My name is Kyle Meades and I’m a speech pathologist since 1993 and these podcasts are designed to help you improve your business and your life one podcast at a time.

Welcome back to the show everyone. Thanks again for all the emails and all the questions. And as of today, today is Saturday December 2nd 2017. We have well over twenty six thousand four listeners to the show. And I’m really happy you guys are out there getting valuable information. You’ve heard me say it time and time again value is what you get in the absence of money. These podcasts are free for you and if you are enjoying them would you please help others find the podcast easier and just go to iTunes or on the Android platform. The Google platform and leave 5 stars so others can find the podcast easier and get the same benefit.

Now we have many listeners from around the world. Currently the United States tops the list and we’ve got Japan then Australia, United Kingdom, Canada India, Germany, South Africa and then Singapore. Now when you look at the listener base just in the United States it looks like the West Coast California topping the charts. Then we’ve got Texas, New York, Florida, Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maryland and then New Jersey. So those are the top states listening to the podcast and again I’m glad you are here and there’s something that you want to discuss with me just reach out and shoot me an email and you can find me at privateslp.com/contact.

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