Coding: How to Survive a Payer Audit
Have your payers been reviewing old charges and asking for refunds? Payer audits are becoming more common as physicians get aggressive with code selection.

Finance: What’s in Your Wallet?
Find out whether your income — and career satisfaction level — stacks up against that of your peers in family practice, pediatrics, and internal medicine.

Growth Strategies: Paying to Play
Medicare and many private insurers have been marketing their pay-for-performance programs as “free money” for good doctors. But beware hidden costs.

Human Resources: Sizing ’Em Up
Conducting staff performance reviews is one of every manager’s least favorite tasks. Here’s how to do them right — and with less pain.

Leadership: Staying Civilized
Some physician board meetings are bastions of inefficiency, hard feelings, and finger-pointing. Don’t let bad meetings split up a good practice.

Managing Staff: GO TEAM!
Is your office filled with gossips, backstabbers, high-school cliques, and slackers? You don’t have to live with it. Here’s how to turn even the unhealthiest work environment into a productive, happy, even fun office.

Patient Relations: Curing Hearing Impaired MDs
Effectively treating patients requires more than good clinical skills. Just as important is learning how to listen.

Pearls: Making Call Duty Fair
Another selection from our popular weekly e-mail newsletter. This month: How to make call duty fair.

Politics and Your Practice: One Senator Takes on the System
U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, an OB/GYN, takes on the Senate leadership.

Practice Management Lab: Finding Success With Self-Pay
Handling self-pays.

Technology: Easing Your Way Into an EMR
Inefficient practices sometimes think an EMR is the answer to all their problems. But adding a complex new technology to a disorganized office could make things worse rather than better. Ask yourself some key questions before you start the buying process.

The Bigger Picture: Dr. Welby, Meet Dr. House
The evolution of the TV doc. Will they ever get it right?

The Ex-Doctor’s Diary: No Longer a Real Doctor?
Is a doctor who works in another field any less of a doctor? Michelle Mudge-Riley, DO, doesn’t think so.

The Great Practice Makeover: Going It Alone
Neurologist Leanne Burnett found herself practicing solo practically overnight. Can she keep her practice going by herself?

The Tech Doctor: Technology 101
Expert Rosemarie Nelson explains how to make the most of the technologies you already have.

Your Money: Do All Your Exes Wear Rolexes?
Death and taxes are life’s only certainties, but getting divorced — or having an heir who gets divorced — is getting pretty close to a sure thing. Here are some tips for keeping the divorce lawyers away from your life savings and your children’s inheritance.