Caveats for Marketing Your Medical Practice Online
Web-based marketing can hurt your practice's ability to attract and retain patients if it doesn't maintain a high standard.
Forging New Bonds with NPs and PAs
Helping patients accept your nonphysician providers.
Success Strategies for the Second Stage of Meaningful Use
How your practice can succeed in Stage 2 of the EHR incentive program despite more complex requirements and higher reporting thresholds.
Legal Pitfalls of Electronic Patient Communication
From texting to Facebook messages, communicating with patients electronically has always raised legal questions. Here are the answers to keep your practice safe.
Dealing with Disruptive Patient Behavior
When patients are sick they are not at their best. However, you should clearly articulate which types of poor behavior you'll never tolerate at your practice.
How to Become a Telehealth Doctor
Telehealth is becoming more accessible to small and medium-sized practices. Here's how your practice can get started.
Physicians Partnering the Right Way
Whether you are partnering with one other small practice or joining a large healthcare system, here's how to do so while maintaining some independence.
Compliance Planning 101
Now that compliance programs are mandatory, your practice needs to develop one. Here's how to get started.
ACO vs. PCMH: Which is Best for Your Practice?
While both organizations focus on shared savings and greater efficiencies of care, they are not mutually exclusive.
Managing Claim Denials after the ICD-10 Transition
Your practice is likely training and testing for ICD-10 compliance, but you also need to know how to mitigate losses from denials. Here's how to get started.
ICD-10 Data Mining
The Benefits of ICD-10 to Medical Practices
Despite the doom and gloom associated with ICD-10, the new codes could actually provide better care for patients and better reimbursement to physicians.
The Power of Outsourcing in Your Medical Practice
From billing to compliance to human resources, there is a multitude of ways you can outsource key practice functions to lighten your load.
Minimizing the Lost Revenue Risk of the ICD-10 Transition
Like it or not, ICD-10 is on the way. Here's how to plan ahead and project its impact to minimize disruption to your practice's revenue cycle.
Avoiding Patient Dismissal at Your Medical Practice
At your wits end with one of your patients? Here's what to do before showing him the door.
How Practice Managers Can Alleviate Physician Stress
A smart administrator knows that taking the pulse of her practice is vital to heading off bad attitudes and cranky docs.
Successful Human Resources Management
Don't put developing your HR strategies at the bottom of your do-to list. Done well, it can inspire a culture of cooperation and teamwork.
Getting Burned-out Medical Practice Staff Back on Track
Staff burnout sometimes hits your best employees when you need them the most. Here's how to get burned-out staff excited about their jobs again.
What to Do When Medical Staff Call In Sick
Sick employees can cause havoc in your operations, but only if you’re unprepared.
Reducing Medical Practice Staff Turnover
Retaining quality employees at your medical practice doesn't happen automatically. Here's some help on keeping your best staff members in the fold longer.
Preventing Embezzlement at Your Medical Practice
The most effective thing practices can do to ward off theft is to monitor each step of the revenue cycle.
Boost Referrals at Your Medical Practice
If you want to boost referrals at your medical practice, remember, it's the little touches that make your practice memorable.
The Importance of Engaging Your Medical Practice Staff
Here are some easy ways to inspire your staff to excel.
Online Patient Feedback: What to Do
Make no mistake; your practice is being discussed online. So here's how to see what's being said and when you should and shouldn't act.
Giving Pay Raises to Practice Staff
Here are the dos and don'ts of rewarding your hardworking employees.
Improve Your Practice Website 'Curb' Appeal
Websites are no longer optional for medical practices, so here's a primer on how to make the best online first impression.
Bundled Payments: What Physicians Need to Know
Touted as a cost-saving, quality improvement measure, bundled payments also have their critics. Here's what you need to know.
Five Ways to Combat Physician Stress
Consciously deciding to lower your stress is the first step to wellness.
Managing Medical Practice Staff Workloads
Workload inequity can undermine staff motivation and teamwork. Here's how to balance the load.
Keeping Medical Practice Staff on Task
Day-to-day operations at your practice can easily get derailed. Here's how to keep staff on track despite possible disruptions.