Practice Management

Research suggests clinicians' mental health is 'close to average' — and that's not good enough in a stressful environment.

Neil Baum, MD, offers physicians a simple ethics check: Could you comfortably explain your decision to a patient or colleague over coffee?

Insurer exits and network splits will change Medicare Advantage coverage for many patients on Jan. 1. Here's how practice leaders can prepare in every state.

Pennsylvania's outbreak is part of a national surge. Here's how to prepare the front desk, exam rooms, staff records and vaccine supply.

Most partnership problems are predictable. Settle pay, governance, new partners and succession while the group is healthy, not after trouble starts.

Here’s how to make your front desk part of the state’s dengue response.

How practice managers can fend off two cybersecurity incidents: a critical flaw in widely used website code and a breach of a Quest lab portal.

Staff raise budgets are tight for 2027, and turnover still costs more. Our new handbook shows how to price roles, fix compression and keep staff.

Practice bankruptcies are climbing. Here's what owners should plan for, from warning signs to a patient care ombudsman to who keeps patient records.

Overhead ratio, days in A/R and the owner draw explain why a practice can collect more than last year and still come up short on payroll.

How not to be the administrator who says, I didn't see that coming

Neil Baum, MD, reads “The Giving Tree” as a warning for health care workers: Give generously, but don’t give until you’re a stump.

Six in 10 practice leaders say they are burned out. These eight moves help keep the person who runs your office from walking out the door.

Nearly 1 in 4 licensed doctors is 65 or older. Few hospitals screen them, and practices often have no checkpoint at all.

MGMA acting CEO Akash Madiah on what members need, what the association must fix and how administrators can stop revenue leaks now.

Four Oct. 29 sessions cover supplemental pay, payer contracts, Kentucky Medicaid and workload pressure for physicians and administrators.

From payer contract homework to a 15-minute morning huddle, these are the moves practice administrators can make after four days of sessions and interviews at MGMA's centennial meeting.

A family physician and practice owner shares the structure, roles and timing that make her team's 15-minute morning huddle work, and how to adapt it to a practice of any size.

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.