Are you taking advantage of Locumsmart’s full capabilities? With tools for locums billing, strategy, and management, Locumsmart can help you optimize your healthcare organization’s locum tenens processes. Here are the top five tips to help you get the most out of Locumsmart.
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1. Set consolidated billing preferences
Every locum tenens agency you work with can submit multiple invoices every month. Tracking these invoices manually can be costly, both in time and money. That’s why Locumsmart provides a consolidated billing feature that allows you to consolidate invoices and issue payments based on your preferences. If you take the time to configure consolidated billing in a way that works best for your organization, you’ll achieve greater efficiency and cost savings. In addition, Locumsmart automatically completes a 12-point invoice compliance check before every invoice is delivered to you. Resa Konkright, Locumsmart’s director of healthcare organization management, describes it as an “extra layer of assurance in your invoice review.” On average, 32% of invoices submitted through Locumsmart are rejected at least once — preventing errors that would otherwise cost you time and money to fix later. “Without a compliance check, you have to go back and check to make sure you’re being invoiced correctly, and no one has extra time for that,” Konkright says. Consolidated billing and the invoice compliance check service are a powerful combination that’s free to healthcare organizations.2. Get more insights into utilization with real-time analytics
Locumsmart’s data aggregation and real-time reporting functions — including our proprietary forecasting tool — give you more transparency into locums activity and utilization. “Our forecasting tool aggregates locums usage over time and compares it to trends in each specialty to forecast total future spend. No other platform offers this feature,” says Jessica Fong, director of business development at Locumsmart. Analytics and data reporting can empower your organization to make better, faster decisions and implement contingent labor containment strategies. Moreover, knowing which key metrics to track helps you prioritize the highest-generating service lines with coverage for your top specialties and top utilization. “Projecting your expenses without the technology is very hard to do. Because then you're looking at piles of invoices and trying to project your spend. With Locumsmart, you can plug in a few numbers, a date range, and project your spend for the rest of the year,” says Konkright.
3. Hold your organization accountable for locum tenens usage
Using the Locumsmart platform, you can have full visibility into your locum utilization, processes, and projected spend using features such as:- Time-stamped history
- To-the-minute timekeeping
- Authorization features
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4. Consistently enroll your locums with payors
Physicians drive revenue for healthcare organizations, and locum tenens physicians are no different. Locumsmart works with healthcare organizations and their top payors to enroll locum providers confirmed via Locumsmart. This can turn locums into revenue generators. Robert Shumard, director of client services at Locumsmart, says that the issue in dealing with billing for locums on your own is the complexity of locums. Billing for locums often falls outside of the normal billing process, but it’s built into Locumsmart’s workflow. If you’re only focusing on enrolling your employed doctors, you could be losing out on the thousands or even millions of dollars that locum doctors can generate.5. Integrate locums into your flex pools
Whenever possible, it makes sense to leverage your current staff and local providers first to reduce your reliance on locum tenens agencies. However, with limited resources, focusing only on locals and employees for your float pools can stretch your team too thin and cause burnout and attrition. Locumsmart can help you combine both your local team and locum tenens providers into your flex pools. You can build and manage your flex pools using Locumsmart’s technology:- Integrated scheduling between your flex pool and your agency locum providers
- Comprehensive reporting to capture full flexible workforce spend
- KPI tracking
- Input your flex staff directly into the platform
- Triage open shifts by order of utilization
- Fill your open needs with locum providers as needed.

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A technology platform is only as useful as you take advantage of its full capabilities, and there are many ways to easily improve your results with Locumsmart when hiring, scheduling, and credentialing locums — without unnecessary costs to your business.Download the 5 tips:

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