Dean Oschwald, the CEO of Bluegrass Bariatrics, knows firsthand that the BLISPay Patient Financing Program can help grow the self-pay business for practices.  Read below how Dean and his staff were able to use the program with successful outcomes:

"With the current economy, like many programs across the country, we saw a drop in our self pay patient volume. We also saw the options for patient financing drying up or the interest rates getting to the point that patients were putting off their procedures. When we were presented with the BLISPay/Chase patient financing program, we were hesitant at first, could the program deliver a quality patient experience as well as increase our profits? What about the service fee that is part of the program, how would that affect our bottom line?

Now that we have been using BLIS financing, we are seeing patients get financing for their entire procedure amount where they were turned down by more traditional financing options in the past. The rates that BLIS/Chase are charging are lower than most options available out there and the ease of doing business with them makes this an easy decision. The BLIS team helps us promote the program directly to our patients, helps them through the application process, tracks and follows up with patients during their journey, and supports our staff every step of the way! We were averaging a self pay case volume of only 3% of our total volume each month for most of 2009. We implemented BLISPay in September and saw that our self pay percentage increased to 8% of our monthly case volume for the last few months of the year and the trend has continued into 2010. We'd like to thank BLIS for providing this new patient financing option to us and encourage other programs to look at this program closely!"