Physicians are working harder for less than ever before. There are only so many hours in your already busy day. So how can you help your patients and increase your compensation without sacrificing lifestyle? There is only one rational way. Find a revenue stream that meets a patient demand and does not involve an inordinate amount of incremental time on your part. With allergy diagnostics and treatment you can reach your ultimate goal of providing quality medical care while at the same time improving your bottom line. The trouble with adding the service is where to start?

Allergy Care Isn't So Simple

A successful clinic requires significant planning and management of hundreds of steps across multiple processes.

• Have you developed a business plan identifying your products and services with an idea on how to capitalize them?
• Have you designed them to serve a specific medical need of a target population whose profile shows a high demand for them?
• Are you located in an area whose demographics show a high density of that target population?
• Do you have the resources to supervise delivery of the services, charge capture, collection and quality assurance?
• Who will provide diagnostics and treatment supply, staffing, administration, patient and caregiver education?
• Have you considered point-of-care laboratory diagnostics?
• Who will administer clinic services and ensure patient compliance?
• Who will handle data management, benefits verification, billing/collection, quality assurance, productivity reporting, and marketing?

Changing the Path of Allergy Care

Sending a patient outside the convenience of your practice can limit your control and delay your patient’s relief. You patient will continue to suffer without timely diagnosis and treatment. Patients will not get well unless they comply with treatment protocols; and how better to ensure compliance than make the testing and treatments available in the convenience and comfort of y our office with their own physician—a doctor they already know and trust.

Moreover, the financial issues associated with referral to a specialist may affect pay for performance programs with major insurance carriers. Adding an AllerXpress™ allergy center to your practice can create financial efficiencies that will not go unnoticed.

Finally, the drug company pressures to push antihistamines, nasal steroids and other allergy drugs often result in treatment of patients misdiagnosed with allergy conditions. Sometimes, patients are treated with antihistamines as a cure-all when the need is not there. Although antihistamines and other synthetic drugs have their place, we know that figuring out the true cause of the symptoms and then curing the disease naturally is preferred to masking the symptoms with short term synthetics. In the long run, this short term relief is more expensive; less tolerated and can have serious side effects like drowsiness and weight gain.

Not All Allergy Centers Work

As a diagnostic and supply company, we discovered that many practices attempting to provide allergy care stumble across hidden complexity. They suffer management headaches and unexpected time expenditures. Some medical practices "going it alone" report a variety of unwelcome consequences. These include diagnostic and treatment set supply problems, unexpected planning and quality control issues, staffing complications and turnover, coding and managed care problems with associated cash flow delays. This mix of complexity can often result in clinic failure and financial loss.

An Allergy Solution That Works

"We knew that adding allergy care would help our patients and increase revenue," says Manuel Sanchez, MD. "Finding APCG changed everything. AllerXpress™ is the only solution I know that works." By managing complexity on your behalf, AllerXpress™ solutions sweep away barriers to successful allergy care. The result--you and your patients gain the benefits; with none of the headaches.

When it comes to diagnostic speed and accuracy, evidence based medicine, and convenience for the patient, the AllerXpress™ solution will give you the state of the art advantage in full-service medicine. Moreover, this good medicine means good business to your practice as the financial reward comes with the improved care.

Solving Problems and Saving Time

If your practice qualifies, we will help you set up a state of the art allergy testing and treatment center in your office, using the most modern, proven technology to test and treat true allergic disorders.
APCG will assist you in--

• Planning – everything from business planning and design to equipment for your new clinic.
• Implementation - everything from training, staffing to supply.
• Ongoing Support – everything from ongoing education, quality and financial audits, and monitoring of your progress to make sure your getting the most out of your clinic.