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.
E-health: Promise or Peril?
A realistic look at ROI and medical practice technology
Making Medicare Work
How practices are dealing with cuts in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
Hiring the Best Office Manager
How do you find a good manager and build a good relationship, while avoiding uneasy interactions and wasted overhead?
Improving Charge Capture
Practices lose thousands yearly as a result of poor charge capture. Learn to fix it.
Whip HIPAA!
HIPAA privacy basics
Dividing Overhead
Physicians are fighting over how to divide overhead fairly. Here are some equitable suggestions.
EMR Shopping?
Get tips for picking the right EMR
Managing Workflow
The ABCs of worklfow management software solutions
Collect More Money!
How much is your practice losing to poor billing and collections? Get solutions from industry leaders.
Plan On A Business Plan
Why and how to develop a business plan
Does Your EMR=ROI?
Will an EMR save you money or cost you big?
Incident-to Rules Eased
Incident-to rules now make it easier to use contractors instead of employees
A Cast of Coders
Advice from Georgette Gustin, president of the national advisory board of the AAPC
Discover The Power Of Positive Coding
Five coding mistakes and how to avoid them
From Lab Coat to Suit Coat
How some physicians have succesfully put their clincal experience to work in business
Rallying the Troops
The story of one physician's battle with the rising cost of professional liability coverage
See For Yourself
More practices are doing internal audits to catch small mistakes before they turn into big problems
Eat What You Kill
Consider switching to an “eat-what-you-kill” compensation plan, grounded on activity-based cost accounting
Can We All Get Along?
Generational conflict is a fact of life in medical groups. But can the ideals of different generations be closer than everyone thinks?
Be ‘Double the Doc’
How to bill incident-to -- and guidelines for when you can and can't
Fear & Loathing In Coding
Downcoding makes physicians lose money. Here's how to avoid it.
Boom Time for Docs
Insights from a leader in the American Association if Retired Persons on the future of healthcare