HealthCare today is definitely changing and depending on who you discuss it with, it is possible to get a variety of heated answers. I am not going to get political on you or share my personal perspectives on how I see HealthCare changes, today I'd like to zero in on the fiscal side of latest changes and specifically ones that are coming in the subsequent 12-24 months. The doctors who make our HealthCare system function need the help of merchant service providers. In any business their is over head, for some the price of engaging in business is low and for some it’s sort of high it’s actually depends upon what industry a business operates in but for medics,who give most of themselves in the service of others, the price of engaging in business in astonishingly high!
Of all of the expenses payroll needs to be at the top of the list, just yesterday I went to see my eye doctor because my left eye was troubling me, it was getting intensely red, I was using eye drops but I knew something was wrong and as I was getting examined we started talking and Eye Doctor was telling me how he was looking to get his building refinanced because he wished to get the payments on his building reduced and wanted to pull some money out in order to give himself some space to breathe. (the amount of office visits they usually prepared has been kind of low for approximately 6-8 months) As we continued to talk, I had no clue his practice incurred about 30-40 thousand greenbacks in costs each month! The amount of staff he needs in order to service the amount of patients, was major, let's never forget that because he's a California based business the cost of doing business is among the highest in the U. S..
He went on to explain that in the past 10-12 months patients haven't been coming in for lots of reasons, some of which were no insurance coverage due to a lost job, not enough cash to cover the visit, or being employed but having had to cancel their healthcare insurance, I was most startled at some of the explanations being that their bosses deciding to no longer provide vision coverage. To make a lengthy tale down my jaw virtually hit the floor when he told me how much money he had to spend on payroll taxes and other expenses associated with staff. This made me understand that as a merchant service provider not enough is being done to give back to the doctors of our HealthCare system.
What most firms have no idea and what many corporations that provide credit card processing don’t talk of is the monetary programs we have at our disposal to help business owners like my eye doctor. Merchant service providers have programs like AdvanceMe that may provide my eye doctor a loan with no collateral (let me say that again… No collateral) this loan does not even show up on their credit report, it’s all done with minimal trouble because what AdvanceMe does is take a portion of a merchants Mastercard transactions to repay to loan over a period of time.This permits doctors like my eye doctor to have a tendency to their financing commitments, maybe hire some temporary staff or perhaps initiate some promoting with irrefutable specials to bring in patients at costs they can afford. If I had know my eye doctor required a cash injection into his business, this is something I very definitely would of offered him as it would have been much faster than going through the standard channels of taking a loan.
AdvanceMe is just one example, my major point is that merchant service doctors have a treasure chest of tools that may help medical professionals in more ways than one. It looks to me that majority, and I say majority because I'm absolutely certain some really great firms still exist, of credit card processing firms have forgetting their true purpose… To serve the merchants regardless of industry.
Global Merchant Innovations is a full service payment acceptance and local marketing provider, our unique profit partners program helps business gain more local exposure along with ensuring they can accept all forms of payments quickly, securely and with convenience to help them run a more efficient business. All though we are a merchant services provider, we go well beyond just providing credit card processing. Our medical merchant accounts can really help give back to the HealthCare industry by ensuring our Doctors have the tools they need to do the life changing work they provide.