Physicians Practice Staff Salary Survey 2012
With payment model changes looming, and practice budgets getting ever tighter, getting your staffing right has never been more important. Here's how to staff wisely in uncertain times. 

Slide Show: Are your staff salaries in line with your peers'? Find out with our 2012 Staff Salary Survey data.

Tech Tools for Your Medical Practice's Front Office
Your front-desk staff is underappreciated but crucial to your success. Arm them with these high-tech helpers to get their jobs done right without burning out.

Recognizing Medical Practice Staff
Looking for ways to praise your hard-working staff, without breaking the bank? Here's how to motivate your office to achieve the common goal of boosting patient satisfaction.

Medicare Fraud and Abuse and Your Practice
The government is getting more aggressive — a lot more aggressive —in going after possible fraud. Here's how to keep your practice out of legal hot water.
 

The Overrated Mandate
Unless the Supreme Court overturns the entire health reform law, it won't matter much. Health reform can survive without the individual mandate. Here's why.

ARE YOU MAKING ENOUGH MONEY?

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Read 'I Feel I Am Successful When…'
Gastroenterologist George Ferenczi escaped the Iron Curtain as a boy. Now he tries to justify his luck, and life.

If you've ever dreamed of being a published writer, or just have something you'd like to say, check out the Physician Writer Search. Each month, we give you a topic and a deadline, and you give us 1,000 to 1,250 words. If we select your submission, we'll publish your column in a future issue, to be seen by 200,000 of your colleagues, and we'll pay you $250.

Think about the September 2012 topic: 'My best practice-management idea' and then submit your essay! 

Few physicians have had formal practice-management training, but that doesn't mean they can't learn on the job. Sometimes the best answer is the simplest. Sometimes, it is the suggestion made by a coworker. Share the wealth: tell us about your most effective practice-management technique.