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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.

Medicare would pay for RPM and RTM only when practice-employed clinical staff do the work under the CY 2027 fee schedule proposal.

Front-end collections are rising while back-end recovery slides. These moves can get the balance paid while the patient is still there.

The EHR is dark and the waiting room is full. Eight moves that keep patients moving and revenue flowing until systems come back.

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.

Neil Baum, MD, on why the Stanford marshmallow test explains the money habits that decide a physician's financial future.

CMS says its Medicaid Fraud War Room stopped $203 million and flagged 50 providers in 88 days, all surfaced by billing analytics.

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.

How a phone is answered and when labs are ordered can reshape a practice. Neil Baum, MD, explains the butterfly effect.

The clinical note is now the most-read thing a practice publishes; here are eight ways to make documentation work as patient communication.

MGMA's Anders Gilberg on the 1.68% conversion factor cut, budget neutrality winners and losers, and why MVPs worry him.

Providers won the federal fight over website tracking and still face lawsuits, and most practices have never audited their own site.

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.

Mid-career physicians are rethinking what they will tolerate, and locum tenens offers a way to test a new path without an irreversible leap.

A new Physicians Practice handbook breaks down the 2027 Medicare fee schedule proposal, with worked math on what practices stand to lose.

Adoption outran governance, and these eight fixes close the gap before the 2027 deadlines land.

Neil Baum, M.D., on the mindset shifts and daily habits that turn satisfied patients into loyal, raving fans of your practice.

The HIPAA Security Rule won't be final until July 2027, but the HIPAA Privacy Rule's final rule is expected in August 2026.

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.

Health care unionization is rising. Here's how practice leaders can respond to staff organizing legally.

Neil Baum, M.D., on why most clinical alerts are noise and three ways practices can cut through it to focus on what's actionable.

Embezzlers hide inside the practices that trust them most. These red flags should send you straight to the books.

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

Daniel Tashnek, J.D., breaks down five assumptions that hold remote care programs back, from patient eligibility to staffing and EHR capabilities.

Staffing calls are money calls. These seven calculations show what a hire, an empty chair or a bad fit really costs your practice.