Practice Management

Recent changes to medical laws in the Land of Lincoln.

Pilot new workflows and technology with a handful of physicians first. Beta testing surfaces the problems before they get expensive.

Before buying another dashboard, run the eight reports your practice management system already generates.

Staff are pasting patient information into chatbots no one approved. Nine steps to pull that use into the open, and into compliance.

More than 400 revenue cycle leaders told Inovalon which workflows send their claims back. The ranking reads as a to-do list for whoever owns the front end of the practice.

How to prepare for when AI changes interactions with patients, staff and vendors

AI scribes reached exam rooms faster than the policies meant to govern them. Nine controls for a tool your practice already runs.

Neil Baum, MD, shares three measurement tools to gauge how pre-visit planning affects call volume, efficiency and productivity.

Buyers judge transferability, risk concentration and what runs without you. Start looking at your practice through their lens years before a deal.

Every practice has one person who is the only one who knows how to do a handful of things. Here are eight of them, and what breaks the week that person is out.

Cross-training, better staff meetings and role-playing can turn individual employees into a team that weathers shortages.

Front desk churn slows rooming, ages claims and burns overtime. These nine moves will help keep the people who run your practice's first impression.

Staffing shortages, training gaps and insurance verification delays are the front-end problems dragging on patient access, and nearly all of them land on the administrator's desk. Experian Health's chief operating officer breaks down which ones automation can absorb now and which ones still need payer or policy reform.

Auto-renewals and quiet price escalators keep vendor spend climbing. Ask these eight questions before the contract rolls over.

An outbreak in the news brings a surge of calls before it brings a surge of cases. A Michigan pediatrician on the triage rule, the lab conversation and the reassurance approach that keep a practice from being overwhelmed.

Two Aug. 6 sessions tackle flexible staffing and revenue cycle leaks, with practical steps physicians and administrators can use right away.

The proposed 2027 Medicare fee schedule shifts payment between specialties and changes same-day billing as MIPS winds down, and MGMA's Anders Gilberg explains what practice leaders should watch before comments close Sept. 14.

MGMA's Anders Gilberg says the cuts land hardest on independent groups, calls MVPs 'MIPS on steroids' and expects any fix to wait for a lame duck Congress.

Women physicians leave clinical practice 15 years earlier than men, and for practice leaders the retention levers are schedule control, documentation burden and how care time gets paid.

Overhead runs about 60% of practice revenue, concentrated in four line items every administrator knows by heart.

Most physicians know the direct primary care pitch; whether the economics hold up once you're in it is the harder question.

Your best biller just became the boss. Nine first-year missteps that sink new practice managers, and how to sidestep every one.

Neil Baum, MD, explains why seeing patients on time is the single best way to boost satisfaction, retention and your practice's reputation.

The same low-risk procedure can pay five to 12 times more in a hospital outpatient department than in a physician's office. Three U.S. Women's Health Alliance advocates break down what that gap does to recruiting, referrals and patient choice, and the federal bill aimed at closing it.

As consolidation reshapes the market, health care investment banker Andy Colbert breaks down what an independent practice is really worth and how to weigh private equity, a hospital deal or a management services organization.