David J. Norris, MD, MBA, CPE

Just like there are ratios that gauge your patients’ health, there are ratios to gauge the financial health of your practice.

Don’t settle for a bad deal. Boost your profits by renegotiating your payer contracts.

Knowing your break-even point will help you plan for the future.

Follow these simple tips to detect-and prevent-financial fraud in your medical practice. 

Understanding the kinds of costs, and tracking them, will help you better manage your practice’s finances. 

How to make sense of the dollars and cents at a physician practice.

Matching people with jobs that utilize their skills and personality is key to keeping them happy at your practice.

Physicians often look at their relationship with payers through an us vs. them mindset. That's the wrong tract to take says one doc.

Patients really want to be cared for. And it's important to realize that treating them is different than caring for them.

Physicians are not certain what message the certification boards are trying to send about MOC. Transparency would be a good place to start.

In any negotiation, it's important to consider the needs of the other side. But there's a difference between true altruism and absolute self-sacrifice.

The PBS documentary is an excellent example of how a patient's mindset leads them to healthcare ownership, not just placing that burden on the physician.

Healthcare is two parts: the process and the outcome. The latter can get you sued, but how you handle and behave during the process can protect you.

Asking questions - especially the hard ones - benefits you as a physician and can do the same in negotiations.