Physicians Practice Pearls®

Understanding the legal structures of medical practice acquisitions—asset purchase, stock purchase, or merger—is essential for practice administrators navigating today’s complex, high-stakes transaction landscape.

Neil Baum, MD, gives actionable interview tips to help you take your career to the next level.

Direct primary care is transforming the healthcare landscape by replacing insurance-driven models with affordable, membership-based care that strengthens patient-doctor relationships, reduces costs, and improves access to personalized treatment.

Discussing costs with patients is a conversation many physicians avoid, but they're doing their practice a disservice.

Doctors are dealing with a ton of challenges all at once, and seeing their reimbursement shrink while costs to do business increase is a major problem.

Neil Baum, MD, gives tips on dealing with difficult callers at your medical practice.

Don't make the same mistakes as this practice.

The reality is that if you try to do two things at the same time, you won't do either well. It's a trajectory to get less done.

Overwhelming tasks and unreasonable deadlines squeeze our cognitive capabilities. Choosing what you can handle improves our clarity and intelligence.

Key findings from the 2025 Physicians Practice Staffing & Salary Survey.

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Givers do not expect anything in return. They give of themselves with no strings attached.

Medicaid is on the chopping block, but that doesn't mean the end of indigent care.

Neil Baum, MD, discusses what price transparency means and how your practice can use it to thrive.

Most physicians are caught on the “entrepreneur merry-go-round”, dealing with business issues, family, staff, banks and so on, and find it difficult even to plan this year’s strategy, let alone figure out whether it’s time to sell.

Step therapy protocols not only delays necessary treatment but can lead to adverse reactions that ultimately increase rather than lower health care costs.

Relying on myths about patient engagement can lead to mistakes for your practice.

Neil Baum, MD, gives some tips on the key performance indicators your practice should be monitoring.

The key benefits of including a power nap in your daily routine.

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By implementing a few of these recommendations, you can effectively separate work from personal life, reduce stress, create a healthier work-life balance.

Recent legislative and regulatory actions tied to generative artificial intelligence.

Neil Baum, MD, gives some tips for retaining the good staff you already have.

It's like having a scribe in the room with the patient who knows what goes in the medical record.

Anders Gilberg, of MGMA, discusses the evolving landscape for physician practices under the new Trump administration, focusing on regulatory changes and advocacy priorities.

Neil Baum, MD, gives some tips on when to call patients at home.

Despite its proven success, persisting barriers slow technology’s adoption

We can make physical activity a vital sign like blood pressure, weight, and pulse by regularly screening patients for inactivity and providing inactive patients with resources to promote physical activity.