Billing & Collections: Mine Your A/R Reports
Your days-in-A/R report tells you how long it takes you to get paid — and the longer it takes, the more it costs. Learn how to read these reports correctly so you can fix whatever’s holding up your checks.

Coding: Your Top Coding Problems Solved
Tips from our biweekly e-mail newsletter. This issue: Break your EMR’s bad habits.

Finance: How Does Your Pay Stack Up?
Find out with our Second Annual Physician Compensation Survey. With help from the physician recruiting firm Merritt, Hawkins, we offer data you can use to judge your own compensation against your peers.

IdeaLab: ‘How I Realized My Dream Practice’
John Ingalls, MD, explains how he built his ideal practice by putting his own (and his family’s) happiness first.

Lifestyles: Giving Back While Getting Ahead
As a physician, you already contribute plenty to the welfare of your community. Still, there are ways to do even more, while also strengthening your own business.

Physicians Practice Pearls: Budgeting for the Fainthearted
Here’s the right way to develop your annual budget.

Professionalism: Paging Dr. Hippocrates
The old man would be rolling over in his grave if he knew what today’s physicians are dealing with. Professionalism as traditionally defined in medicine is dead. Or is it? We explore ways you can maintain professional standards despite the challenges of modern economics.

Publisher’s Note: Our Best Chance for Reform?
With the future of healthcare at stake, presidential candidates must hear from you.

Technology: Sorting Out Your Billing
You deserve every penny you’ve earned. But if your practice is like most, you probably aren’t getting that. There are technologies out there that can help — but which one is right for you?

The Administrator’s Desk: When You’re the Bad News Bearer
Here’s how to say what the boss doesn’t want to hear.

The Bigger Picture: How Much is Enough?
When it comes to your compensation, maybe it’s time to rethink your assumptions.

The Great Practice Makeover: Reducing Your Malpractice Risk
Robert Blanco, MD, wants to lower his risk of being sued, but isn’t sure how. Expert Laurie Hyland Robertson has a few ideas.

The Tech Doctor: No More No-Shows
How technology can help keep your waiting room full.

Workplace: Dealing with Mediocre Employees
You know what to do with your star employees: Promote them. You know how to handle persistent underperformers: Replace them. But what about the masters of mediocrity — those staff who do enough, but just barely? How do you motivate these middlings to excel?

Your Money: Avoiding Estate Taxes
Mervin Low, MD, explains how a little-known type of trust can keep more of your money where it belongs — with your heirs — after you’re gone.