James B Payton, MD, PA & Associates

10/07/2021

Job description
Prime Candidate must be caring towards perspective new patients, follow patient vetting process guidelines, and must be able to work well on their own.

Telephone: setups and assist answering incoming calls, all management calls, take and deliver messages.

Insurance Liaison: check benefits and eligibility, collecting denied claims, request adjudication or input online insurance claims. Familiar with credentialing practitioners with insurances, and CAQH.

Computer: Software Synergistic Office Solutions, Microsoft Office products, CAQH, research EMR and E-Prescribe. Oversee Server and system back-up. Familiar with Wi-Fi and Ethernet setups.

Oversee Rental: sublet of office space billing, payments and reports.

Collections: Offer payment plans, upload documents to collections agency and manage status and aging reports.

Bookkeeping and Audit: Purchase supplies, balance petty cash, make deposits, bookkeeping banking ledger to submit to accountant. Audit accounts receivable. Produce Excel or SOS software reports for practitioners. Filing.

The office follows all governmental guidelines and mandates. Masks, sanitizers, air filtration, vaccines, and spaced seating are all required.

06/03/2020

We are accepting new patients through telehealth and are making appointments for office visits.

05/05/2020

Insurances are still honoring telephone and teletherapy appointments.
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05/04/2020

We are still assisting our patients with healthcare needs during Covid-19. Call 828-255-9228

05/13/2019

05/21/2018

05/18/2018

YOU'RE MAGNIFICENT, OF COURSE YOU HAVE AN ADVANTAGE AND I THINK YOU CAN MANAGE

Dr. Payton
These are three things that the leader of the Butterfly Circus said to the limbless man. I have recently blogged again about this wonderful short film called "Butterfly Circus." I was discussing this film with some of my patients who had watched it, at my encouragement. We discussed the statement "of course you have an advantage" and I mentioned that I felt that the statement was true but I did not know why it was. I then heard one of my patient's say that they were more open about themselves with others and more comfortable with themselves, since they had started to react less to past experiences and therefore had less anxiety and paranoid thinking. I wonder if my patient's struggles with anxiety and paranoia helped to push them to learn to react less to the past and that this was their "advantage" that helped them to "manage" their lives better. Hopefully some day soon they will realize that they are "magnificent."

I also wonder if we all have an advantage and we all can manage and we all are magnificent? Don't we all have doubts and struggles and feel stressed based on past worries that we keep experiencing? So, doesn't that mean that we have the advantage of feeling more and more compelled to risk changing our lives by managing to be responsible for ourselves and our choices? Doesn't this then help us to be who we were meant to be versus being who we are when we succomb to worries and fears? And, when we are who we were meant to be isn't that magnificent?

What do you think?

The Butterfly Circus has become one of the most beloved short films of all time with over 100 M views. Feature film is in the works!

04/19/2018

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE ENCOURAGING AND SUPPORTIVE OF SOMEONE?
Dr. Payton
When I was looking at the acknowledgments at the beginning of a book by Kate DiCamillo called The Tiger Rising, I noticed that the acknowledgments ended with thanking a specific person for "believing that I could and that I can. And that I will." I rarely look at this section of a book but I did this time and really only at the end that I have quoted above. Who knows why? However, I believe that this is one way of talking about or describing what being supportive and encouraging is.
This is important to me because when I am helping my patients to stop feeling and acting responsible for others, they need to have something that they can replace that with. I believe that being encouraging and supportive is a good way to interact with others. However, defining it has been difficult for me. That is why I was encouraged when I saw what Kate DiCamillo had written in her acknowledgments. So, is believing in someone part of being encouraging and supportive? I think it is and I have focused on people seeing the strengths in others and communicating this to them as a way of being supportive and encouraging. This does not involve giving advice, making suggestions or taking on responsibility for the other person. Often people that we want to help are not feeling confident, nor recognizing their strengths and abilities. That is why it is important to recognize the strengths of people we care about and also why it is so very important to not undermine their confidence by giving advice or taking over for them.
I have repeatedly seen that it is critical to not take over for others as this undermines their confidence and is not kind or caring or loving. Now, if someone is used to being dependent on others to do for them and people start expecting them to manage for themselves, they may react negatively at first. Their reaction indicates that they have a beginning awareness of their need to take responsibility for themselves. So, if you are encouraging and supporting others, they may get mad at you. This is a good thing as it means that they are more likely to change and start taking responsibility for themselves. What do you think?