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Replacing one employee can cost up to 200 percent of their salary. Six gardening principles for growing a team that stays.

Why medical groups miss budget for reasons that have nothing to do with money, and how finance professionals become strategic advisers.

Water boils at 212°, not 211°. Neil Baum offers 15 small, one-degree changes that can transform patient care and outcomes.

Two Physicians Foundation experts on why where a patient lives may shape health more than the care received and what physicians can do about it.

Sort the work before hiring: Kem Tolliver and Taya Gordon share a revenue cycle playbook for stressed practices.

Revenue cycle leaders at the 2026 MGMA Summit laid out the digital patient billing playbook and the order of operations administrators should follow.

As more physicians choose locum tenens, building a strong, intentional brand is what opens doors to better assignments and long-term opportunity.

The plan that recruited your physicians may be the reason they leave. Eight building blocks for a hybrid model that retains and rewards.

Downcoding, underpayments, missed incident-to: eight revenue cycle leaks to catch before they drain you.

Panacea Financial's 2026 survey found that physician financial confidence barely budges across an entire career. The reasons go deeper than income.

A rubber band is only useful when stretched. The same goes for a medical practice trying to grow past its comfort zone.

The series returns with Lucien Roberts and Bert Wilson on allowables, collection percentages and what a practice actually collects.

Carlos Cardenas, M.D., explains why a CMS request for information may be the biggest opening for physician-owned hospitals since the ACA.

Rachel V. Rose, JD, MBA, breaks down the legal risks physicians face when investing in or dispensing from compounding pharmacies.

Lucien Roberts and Bert Wilson break down allowables, collection percentages and accounts receivable on this episode of The Back Office.

Neil Baum, M.D., shares three habits from more than 40 years in practice that exceed patient expectations and help reduce physician burnout.

Patients are increasingly primary payers. Nine front-end moves to keep balances from sliding into bad debt.

Denial rates are climbing past 10% at many practices. Here are six places to recover revenue without overhauling billing.

Pediatric neurosurgeon Leon Moores, M.D., makes the case that every physician is already a leader and shares how to guide teams through uncertainty.

Neil Baum, M.D., walks physicians through how to cleanly leave a practice, from reviewing contracts and notifying patients to securing tail coverage.

A nurse-led framework for when independent practices should bill CHI, PIN or CCM for Medicare care coordination work.

Prosper Beyond VBC's Doral Jacobson on why most practices lose negotiations before they even get in the room, and what to do differently.

As House lawmakers take up MACRA, MGMA backs three bills to tie payments to inflation, raise budget neutrality and replace MIPS scoring.

Operational levers that practice administrators can pull to give clinicians their evenings back

Eight practical ways to plug revenue leaks, from eligibility checks and point-of-service collections to working denials by root cause.

Eight practical steps to govern AI in your practice, from naming an owner to vetting vendors and training your team.

Lumeris CMO David Carmouche, M.D., says AI's biggest opportunity in primary care is giving physicians back the time to actually practice medicine.

Health care veterans resistant to innovation can create barriers to progress, but converting them from adversaries to allies may be the answer.