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6. Solution production and support

If your product is hardware, you need manufacturing, quality control and inventory. In all cases, you need customer support, formal processes and training in place. As an entrepreneur, make sure you understand your direct and indirect costs, staffing requirements, margins and metrics to make sure these elements are in place.

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4. A near-term customer value proposition

Customers buy solutions with value that's quantifiable to them today, meaning value which, compared to existing offerings, is half the cost or offers twice the productivity. Long-term value propositions to society, or paradigm shifts in technology, generate interest but don’t close sales in the time frame your startup needs to survive and prosper.

4 SIGNS YOU NEED TO OUTSOURCE

     



"As reimbursement pressure 
grows and underlying costs rise,
 margin pressure will persist."

-You may be 

told by your team 

that there are

 no costs left to cut. 

"Respectfully disagree."

Understanding Healthcare Start Up Issues

Health Care

Use this guide to help understand the laws and regulations that apply to health care businesses and the health care industry.

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• Antitrust
• Environmental Compliance
• Eye Care
• Facilities Management
• HIPAA
• Mammography Services
• Medical Device Reporting
• Medical Practitioners
• Medicare & Medicaid
• Taxes
• Workplace Health & Safety
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HOW A MEDICAL CLAIMS CLEARINGHOUSE WORKS

Here’s the nuts and bolts of how it works. The medical billing software on your desktop creates an electronic file (the claim) also known as the ANSI-X12,  837 file, which is then uploaded and sent to the medical billing clearinghouse chosen. The clearinghouse then scrubs the claim, which means it is checking it for errors : arguably the most important thing a clearinghouse does; is scrub: which means to check for errors of submitted claims information.  Then once the claim passes inspection, the clearinghouse securely transmits (also very important) the electronic claim to the specified payer with which it has already established a secure connection, that meets the strict standards laid down by regulations which called HIPAA Transactions’.