Adding Nonphysician Providers
Atlanta Obstetrics and Gynecology has employed nurse-midwives in its practice since the early 1980s, but it doesn't think of them or its nurse practitioners as

Ancillary Service Lines
Ancillary services can be a great revenue-booster. But do some planning and number-crunching first.

Boost Your Coding Confidence
Medical coding poses as rational exercise. Every service has a code. You document the service you provide. You get paid. On the surface, it seems pretty straightforward.

Coding Questions?
Questions and answers about coding are taken from the Ask an Expert section of our Web site, www.PhysiciansPractice.com.

Contracting Strategy
Many practices are (finally) developing a long-term strategy for dealing with managed-care contracts. The physicians are happier, employees are happier, and patients are happier.

From MD to MBA
Crystal Run Healthcare has come a long way from its 1982 beginnings as a one-physician, one-site practice with an unfinished floor. And so has its founder, Hal Teitelbaum, MD, a former academic who launched the practice with no business experience and no money.

Simplify Your Scheduling
What happens in your practice when there aren't enough new patients to fill those three

The HIPAA Rip-Off
Need an eye-opener about how the best-laid HIPAA plans can go astray?

The Lifeblood of Your Practice
An interview with Curt Udell on billing and coding

Voice Recognition
Storage problems, transcription costs of more than $125,000 per year, and the imminent retirement of a workhorse transcriptionist led practice administrator John Bonini to one conclusion.