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“Global” Post op visits. Providers have the tendency to believe that they cannot receive payment for a visit or procedure performed within a “global period” of a #surgery.

This is not the case.

Know your modifiers and be precise with your diagnoses pointers, insurance companies are certain to pay the claim. For example in some cases, the provider may need to perform an assessment(EM) on a problem that had nothing to do with the previous operation. So know your global periods as well.

There are also instances in which the Provider will need to address issues that may have arose due to the surgery. In order to properly treat the issues, it may be necessary to perform labs and or procedures.

A note to providers. If your note does not support what you have performed “it didn’t happen”.

Again, know your global modifiers…..

Do you have questions? Feel free to contact me directly at michelle@arnetworks.com

Steps To Automating & Streamlining Processes

Automation and streamlining is every business owner’s dream! Instead of focusing on sales and growing their business, most owners use most of their time working within their business, which leads to less time working on growth and exposure. What business owners need, is a sustainable way to be able to automate and outsource. Below are some specific ways a business like yours can both grow and automate at the same time:

Web Hosting: When it comes to hosting your website, you need to be certain that your site is safe from hackers and other security threats.  AR Computers, Inc. can set up secure website hosting to ensure the data collected on your site is safe, protected at all times and continuously secure.

Social Media Management: Market to your target audience using the power of social media! Social media today is the most optimized and least expensive platform to use to engage and gain exposure with a targeted audience.

QuickBooks Accounting: QuickBooks is the number one small business accounting software, and it is likely you have already thought about integrating it into your operations if you haven’t already done so.  QuickBooks makes it easy to organize your books and can automate the accounting process simply by connecting with your bank account to import and categorize transactions.  QuickBooks is also a useful tool for invoicing and tracking payments.

Cloud Services:  Using a local server for document storage, company email, and third-party integrations is very costly and can lead to frustrating outages that severely hinder productivity.  AR Computers, Inc. specializes in migrating office IT infrastructure to the cloud.  We provide cloud solutions from Amazon, Google and Microsoft.  With AR Computers cloud hosting solutions, all your data will incessantly be backed up and you will no longer need to maintain in-house server equipment.

It’s all about hiring one company that can help optimize and streamline your whole business, and at Air Computers, Inc., we can do it all! Comment below what type of techniques your business uses to streamline your processes.

How Do You Protect Your Data If A Laptop Is Lost Or Stolen?

It’s the new year, which means a lot of businesses begin to purchase and use new technology such as phones and computers. With this time of year, though, it’s an important period in time to start thinking about protection of these devices and the data that lies within. As a business owner myself, it is evident to us that data is highly confidential- holding important client information, payment terms and various other confidential documents. Here’s an unsettling statistic- according to The State of Data Security and Privacy: 2018 to 2019 by Forrester, only 15% of data breaches can be traced back to a lost or stolen laptop or other type of endpoint.

In this case, we thought it would be relevant to share some valuable information. Below is an outline for all business owners to follow in order to reduce any threat of a data breach:

• Make sure to take care of your privacy settings immediately upon setup. Know your product, research your product and at all times have control over your product.
• Disable file sharing. This is just another outlet to disaster- You could unknowingly give others access to your computer while file sharing; private files can potentially be shared, lost, etc.
• Secure your wireless network at your home or business. Use stronger passwords, provide a separate network for guests and always use a firewall.
• Implementing Data Protection Services. When you first launch your business or begin purchasing devices, you should also make sure to obtain a strong data service that can hold and back up your files. Implement an image-based backup solution that will ensure, if your server goes down, that it will be back online within minutes- using a standby machine imaged only a few minutes behind the server. We can also provide off-site server solutions which remain consistently backed up and do not require on-site hardware.
• Clearly understand how your device should behave… By knowing & understanding how a device should behave, also clarifies how it shouldn’t behave.

The next blog will cover how to protect your data on social networking sites! This is a huge question that we get asked quite often, and there are numerous different ways to protect your information, avoid ad targeting and much more…

In today’s day and age, it’s all about being visible to your customers or clients; better yet, your targeted customers or clients. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization – which is the growth of targeted visibility in search engine results either paid or organic. SEO will allow your business to connect with those who are searching on search engines, which hopefully will turn them into paying consumers.

As a business owner, you need to have a plan in order to grow your business and get in front of your target audience because in most cases, there are thousands of competitions trying to steal your customers.

Now there’s numerous of ways to optimize your SEO, dependent on the business and the market. As well, there’s numerous of ways to organically grow and paid… Lets go over that with you a little further:

Organic:

• Key Words: Having the right search words on your website will help increase the visibility of a website, which hopefully will lead to higher number of leads and paying customers. Keywords rank very high when it comes to search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing etc…

• Updating Consistently: Constantly updating your website by blogging, and making new changes increases your rank. Search engines like to place websites higher when they’re new and have new content up frequently rather than a website that is barely worked on with old information.

• Hyperlinking & Tagging: If your link to your website is on other websites, your ranking will go a lot higher. For example, if you’re quotes or linked for more information on social media or on another website, search engine results will be higher in that market.

• Mobile-Friendly: Having your website updated as we talked about above is extremely important, and most consumers in today’s day and age use their mobile to go online so it’s very important that your website is optimized mobile.

Paid:

• Google AdWords: Normal Ads on google or other platforms depending on the market work very well. Google AdWords allows you to see what other businesses are spending and allow you to directly get in front of your customers on search engines.

 The best part of SEO today is that it’s all measurable! There’s numerous of platforms that allows you to track and measure the performance of every step and campaign your implementing if it’s paid or even organic. If you’re not currently tracking your website or know how, you should implement Google Analytics – a simple google platform that allows you to receive analytic reports each week.

As always, good luck and if you have questions or need helping with SEO, please feel free to contact AR Computers Inc. We work with numerous of small to medium sized businesses and we would love to get the chance to help grow your business.

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What does “website optimization” mean? Well, website optimization can mean many different things to many different companies! Even looking at various websites, you’ll see the way a company chooses to optimize their platform truly ranges depending on who they are, what they offer and how they like to run their business. In digital marketing terms, it means having the most effective website that appeals to your target audience. Specifically, this includes: SEO, keywords, content organization, aesthetics, loading speed, mobile-friendly, java script errors and a clear call-to-action.

With AR Computers, Inc. we use the term “Database Driven.” This means, every page, link, and section of your website will be a sales funnel that collects data and captures your target audience. So yes, here’s where we come in- we help structure websites based on the general optimizations a business needs, but we take it even further than that. A “Database Driven” website allows for data to be altered through a content management system, thus ensuring the website is always up to date. Database driven websites are much more effective than their static counterparts and, with less effort on the business owner’s part, they are sure to provide more room for online business growth.

So, now let us explain how we take website optimization to a whole new level: We focus on the tangibility of data.

• Business Relevant Domain Name Registration: acquiring an appropriate domain name that is relevant to your business. We ensure that this name fits in with SEO guidelines and isn’t frivolous or unnecessarily long.
• Easy to Manage Control Panel: The control panel is the where the entire contents of a database driven website can be altered. Here, the administrator of the website can update text, images, and other information on the website at their own leisure, without having to involve any programmers. With a control panel, users need not know any code or programming- they can simply interact with the easy-to-navigate systems, making their own changes to the site’s content at their own desired time.
• User-Friendly Interface: One of the key principles of interface design is to keep the site user-friendly. At AR Computers, Inc., we design your site to make it as easy as possible for the user to navigate through the platform and reach all pages/functions with the minimal amount of clicks. Our user-friendly interfaces make websites more enticing for users to access frequently, ensuring that the website experiences a strong customer return rate.
• Contact / Enquiry / Quote Forms: Contact forms are an essential part of any website. No matter what the purpose of the website is, there must be a contact form where interested users can reach out to the site administrators. Designing a simple form that gathers only the essential information is key to the success of contact forms, as requesting excess information will only hinder the communication process.  AR Computers, Inc. integrates sleek and formal contact forms into your site, which can also build inquiry and quote forms that are tailored to suit the needs of your business.

Let’s cut to the chase: businesses are tired of marketing companies creating content, but not leading their company to any tangible results! That’s why we create data driven content, design clear call-to-actions and strategize your website as a sales funnel to help you capture [and retain] new potential customers!