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Physicians Practice Executive Editor Keith L. Martin helps you plan your agenda for the third day of this year's MGMA13 Conference in San Diego.

Use this tool to identify, track, and monitor revenue-enhancement and cost-containment strategies.

Ken Hertz of the MGMA Healthcare Consulting Group discusses the various options and opportunities for small medical practices to thrive in the future.

Stephanie Rollheiser, vice president of CompHealth Locum Tenens, explains how to get medical practice staff truly engaged in their jobs.

Meryl Luallin, of the SullivanLuallin Group, describes the benefits of shadow coaching for physicians receiving low patient satisfaction scores and/or complaints.

Consultant Elizabeth Woodcock, a presenter at the MGMA12 Conference in San Antonio, discusses tips to improve patient collections at your medical practice.

A new type of audit may be headed to your medical practice. Make sure you are ready.

Many practices struggle to sustain the changes they made in Stage One. Here's how not to be one of them.

Describing his life of accomplishment, world-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson advises setting distant goals and resolving to achieve them.

As efforts to combat fraud, waste, and abuse intensify, medical practices are facing more scrutiny. Here are three areas to focus on.

A healthy organization is crucial to success, but many practices are plagued by dysfunction.

Most practices don’t use data that’s available through EHRs, practice management systems, and other technology to their advantage. Here’s how.

Improving physician and staff communication is critical to Patient-Centered Medical Home Success. Here are some tips.

At MGMA12 in San Antonio, Monday’s panelists discuss the changes to which physician practices and health systems must adapt.

Planning for the emotional and financial impact of ICD-10 may be a daunting task, but it is a necessary one.

This podcast provides physicians key tips for how to disclose and apologize to patients for medical errors.

Physicians Practice Associate Editor Marisa Torrieri helps you plan your agenda for the third day of this year's MGMA12 Conference in San Antonio.

Enough is enough regarding the various pressures bearing down on primary-care physicians, says neurosurgeon Ben Carson of the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.

Neurosurgeon Ben Carson of Johns Hopkins says healthcare reform is "not really" addressing today's healthcare problems. Physicians need to get involved.

Neurosurgeon Ben Carson says there is no question health IT is extremely useful in saving healthcare dollars and is a major contributor of industry change today.

Unless primary-care physicians can organize and affect change, private practice is doomed, says neurosurgeon Ben Carson of the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.

Before making any big changes at your medical practice, neurosurgeon Ben Carson advises you consult two important stakeholders: your patients and your staff.

Two presenters at this year’s MGMA conference predict how healthcare reform will influence independent practices and suggest how practices can prepare.

Consultant Kenneth Hekman unveils four tools for building trust between physicians and hospitals, helping them work more cohesively.

Looking for full coverage of this year's MGMA12 Conference? Look no further than Physicians Practice for all the insight you need.

Two healthcare experts weigh in on how staff development and engagement efforts can boost practice revenue.

In healthcare, size matters. That's always been true, but several factors are combining in many markets to accelerate the pace of provider group consolidation.

Tips and strategies for medical practices to successfully negotiate payer contracts and monitor payers.

How to use your RVU-based physician compensation formula to promote fairness and profitability at your medical practice.

Physicians Practice Editorial Director Bob Keaveney helps you plan your agenda for the second day of this year's MGMA12 Conference in San Antonio.