Around the Office: Working With Drug Reps
It’s the eternal problem: How to handle the barrage of pharmaceutical reps coming through your office door? Help is on the way.

Coding: Your Top Coding Problems Solved
Tips from our biweekly e-mail newsletter.

Finance: Raising Capital With Teeth
In our last issue, we gave you the basics on raising money for new projects and equipment purchases. But what if your plans are more ambitious? For big projects, you might need to get creative.

In Practice: A Painful Dilemma
It may be unfair, but the authorities are investigating well-meaning physicians in scary numbers. Their crime? Trying to manage patients’ pain with controlled medications. Here’s how to do right by your patients while protecting yourself.

NEW! The Administrator’s Desk: A Manager’s Eight Commandments
You asked for it, practice administrators, so here it is — a new monthly column just for you. This issue: Lessons from the masters.

Operations: Dancing With the Stars
Super-productive physicians can be a blessing to your bottom line but a challenge to manage — and an annoyance to other physicians. With a little finesse, though, you can keep everyone happy.

Patient Relations: No More, ‘Oh, By the Way…’
Do you have patients who always seem to have “just one more thing” to talk about, in addition to the reason for their appointment? We help you solve that and other exam room communication problems.

Physicians Practice Pearls: Tame the Copying Beast
Another selection from our weekly e-mail newsletter. This issue: taming the copier.

Publisher’s Note: One Generation Away
American healthcare wasn’t always as efficient and effective as the market-based system we have in 2037.

Technology: Calculating an EMR's ROI
Are you getting a return on your investment — or your planned investment — for that new EMR? Are you sure?

The 2006 Fee Schedule Survey: POWER to the PAYERS
This is the toughest year for physician reimbursement since we started surveying you on your fee schedules in 2001. Still, there are some ways to fight back.

The Bigger Picture: A Year for Empowerment
You’re tired, frustrated — even angry. So what are you going to do about it?

The Great Practice Makeover: Breaking New Ground
We help a small subspecialty practice compete with the big dogs

The Tech Doctor: EMRs & P4P: A Perfect Match?
Why an EMR is essential in the new world of pay-for-performance.

Your Money: Half Price: Long-Term-Care Insurance
The government is offering to cover up to half the cost for something you need. Who are you to say no?