Practice Management

Neil Baum, MD, borrows a technique from acting teacher Uta Hagen: nine questions to ask yourself before you open the exam room door.

Medicaid work requirements, new remote monitoring rules and an electronic prior authorization deadline all land Jan. 1, and that's only part of what MGMA told practice leaders to watch.

Six national physician organizations warned that claims of AI superiority undermine patient trust, putting new attention on how practices set rules for AI use by clinicians and staff.

Adding physicians, locations or services can strengthen a practice, but only when owners first define what growth is supposed to accomplish.

Hold times, delayed approvals and denials on authorized care dominated member feedback to MGMA's government affairs team.

Seema Verma describes state of AI deployment in medical practices for MGMA.

A spreadsheet and the question ‘why?’ are enough to get started, an expert says.

Akash Madiah said work is underway on the local engagement, education and digital improvements members requested, and MGMA recognized its 2026 honorees, including Lifetime Achievement recipient Tracy Bird.

A longtime MGMA analyst outlines the first area of focus to become a top performer.

Experience is one of medicine's most valuable resources. Neil Baum, MD, argues physicians should be judged on competence, not age.

Experience is one of medicine's most valuable resources. Neil Baum, MD, argues physicians should be judged on competence, not age.

Political news staff take in at home follows them to work as anxiety and lost engagement, a new study finds. Five ways to manage the spillover.

The 2026 Healthcare Workforce Barometer measures the gap between what practice leaders think their staff want, and what staff say they want.

Four in five practices already run AI in the front office. Far fewer have written the rules, picked the metrics or named what stays human.

A field guide to the 2026 MGMA Annual Conference agenda, from the Sunday revenue cycle workshop to the government affairs town hall.

Broken equipment, missing charts, no open slots. New PAI survey data hands administrators a punch list of what physicians say is failing.

Portal messages jumped 153 percent in five years while visits went up too. Eleven ways to get the inbox back under control.

The comment window closes Sept. 14, and the same rule already previews what a coding transition looks like operationally.

Retirement planning is not an exit strategy. Here are the four ways physicians leave a practice and what determines which stay open to you.

Florida has no corporate practice of medicine doctrine and skipped the 2026 wave of transaction-review bills. What's left is the Health Care Clinic Act, a fee-splitting statute and whatever the management agreement says.

Recent changes to medical laws in the Land of Lincoln.

Pilot new workflows and technology with a handful of physicians first. Beta testing surfaces the problems before they get expensive.

Before buying another dashboard, run the eight reports your practice management system already generates.

Staff are pasting patient information into chatbots no one approved. Nine steps to pull that use into the open, and into compliance.

More than 400 revenue cycle leaders told Inovalon which workflows send their claims back. The ranking reads as a to-do list for whoever owns the front end of the practice.