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A rubber band is only useful when stretched. The same goes for a medical practice trying to grow past its comfort zone.

The series returns with Lucien Roberts and Bert Wilson on allowables, collection percentages and what a practice actually collects.

Rachel V. Rose, JD, MBA, breaks down the legal risks physicians face when investing in or dispensing from compounding pharmacies.

Patients are increasingly primary payers. Nine front-end moves to keep balances from sliding into bad debt.

Denial rates are climbing past 10% at many practices. Here are six places to recover revenue without overhauling billing.

Neil Baum, M.D., walks physicians through how to cleanly leave a practice, from reviewing contracts and notifying patients to securing tail coverage.

A nurse-led framework for when independent practices should bill CHI, PIN or CCM for Medicare care coordination work.

As the House Committee on Energy & Commerce takes up MACRA on Wednesday, the practice group lobby is backing three bills to tie payments to inflation, raise the budget neutrality threshold and replace the current MIPS scoring approach.

Operational levers that practice administrators can pull to give clinicians their evenings back

Eight practical steps to govern AI in your practice, from naming an owner to vetting vendors and training your team.

Health care veterans resistant to innovation can create barriers to progress, but converting them from adversaries to allies may be the answer.

HHS-OCR settled four ransomware cases for $1.1M all tied to missing annual risk analyses. Are your safeguards up to date?

A new American Medical Association survey scores the country's largest commercial health insurers on the prior authorization burden they impose on physician practices.

For many practices, intake still relies on patients completing forms on arrival. Moving it earlier with digital tools can reduce delays, improve accuracy and lighten front-desk workload.

As AI tools, cybersecurity threats and ambient documentation technology reshape clinical practice, legal experts warn that liability is evolving faster than the regulations meant to govern it.

Physicians boost deal outcomes by ranking priorities, setting walk-away lines, listening well, staying calm and negotiating with support.

After-hours coverage is not the same as reliable access — and the gap between the two is showing up in ED utilization, physician burnout and patient outcomes.

A physician's reflection on a dying friend's perspective shift reveals how gratitude and the lost art of the handwritten note can transform your practice and prevent burnout.

As high-deductible plans shift more costs to patients, practices need stronger front-desk collection workflows before balances become write-offs.

Veradigm’s survey of 360 practice leaders finds operational and financial strain, not clinical concerns, are the top threats to independence.

AI scribes get the headlines, but the highest-yield documentation fixes are workflow changes practices can make this quarter without signing a new vendor contract.

How one medical group used AI scribing to redeploy scribes into a revenue-generating chronic care management program.

Reps. Miller-Meeks, M.D., and Conaway Jr., M.D., introduce legislation to reform the Medicare Physician Payment System.

Auto-renewal clauses, stale fee schedules and unread contract terms quietly erode practice revenue; these eight questions surface what to fix before the next renewal window closes.

A long-awaited HIPAA Security Rule update could arrive this month, and medical practices should start preparing now.

As AI takes on a larger role in clinical decision-making, the diagnostic coding system underpinning health care data may be too imprecise to keep patients safe.

A real-world ChatGPT mix-up illustrates why physicians must verify AI-generated responses before trusting them in clinical or patient-facing settings.

What covered entities need to know about valid authorizations, common defects and protecting patient privacy.

How the widespread adoption of electronic medical records quietly transformed the way primary care physicians code office visits, and their bottom lines.

Before you sign on the dotted line, these nine questions can protect your income, your patients and your career.

These seven scheduling fixes can help practices recover lost revenue and keep patient flow moving.