Put Patients First When Designing Your Practice
When it comes to designing your practice, be sure to design with the patient, and then the doctor, in mind.
Returning Your Practice to Patient-Centricity
Here are nine things you can be doing to ensure that your practice is putting its patients first.
How to Deliver Effective and Persuasive Presentations
If you're nervous about giving a presentation to staff, colleagues, patients, or to the public, here are a few things to know.
Quick Technology Risk Checklist for Your Practice
Here are five tactics to reduce many of the more common risks of data loss at your practice. Make sure you're up to date.
Integrating Technology in a Practice's Strategic Plan in 7 Steps
Strategically planning IT investment and implementation is important for any small-to-mid-sized practice.
Reasonable Charges for a DPC Practice
There are significant decisions a physician must make when setting up a DPC practice. Here are a few you must decide.
Coding for Advance Care Planning
What do practices need to know about coding for advance care planning? Here is some guidance from the AAPC's John Verhovshek.
Making Your Practice More Mobile Friendly
Patients are becoming more and more interested in getting cared for by their provider at home, whether through tech or otherwise.
4 Questions That Can Determine Physician Culture Fit
It's easy to check references, verify clinical skills and training, and see if a physician is in your price range. Cultural fit is harder to ascertain.
Using Data Tools to Improve Your Practice Management Reporting
Use Excel Pivot Tables and Microsoft SQL Server to enhance the way your practice creates reports from its PM and EHR systems.
How to Meet Patient Demand at Your Practice
Patients want in-demand service. Here are a few ways to provide that to them at your practice.
7 Steps to Addressing Addiction within Your Practice
What if the opioid epidemic hits your practice and forces one of your providers to check into rehab? Here are some questions to ask yourself.
6 Ways to Improve Your Bad Mood
Feeling angry and overwhelmed at your practice? Here are six simple actions that can improve your mood.
Practices Must Review Patient Intake Processes
Don't allow new patients to wait 30 minutes because of an outdated intake process, here are ways to make it more efficient.
Practices Can't Cut Their Way to Growth
Practices today are intensely focused on cost-cutting by any means necessary. But, it's important to realize cutting is not always beneficial.
How to Say No to Unreasonable Patient Requests
Some patients don't want to hear it, they just want their unreasonable request accepted. Here's how to say no.
7 Things to Consider When Retiring from Practice
Most physicians realize they can't just up and retire, but how exactly do you prepare for life after medicine?
Tuning Your Health Technology Work Flow
Here are six common themes that often emerge when practices examine their tech work flows.
How to Choose Between Modifiers 25 and 57
When do you use modifier 25 or 57? Coding expert John Verhovshek explains the difference when coding an E&M service.
You Should Worry about Medical Coding Guidelines Changing
E&M coding guidelines are finally changing after 20 years, but don't celebrate yet. These changes may be worrisome to practices
Developing Greater Stress Resiliency in Medical Practice
The less stress you experience, the greater your ability to provide compassionate care, engage positively with your staff, and improve decision making.
7 Ways to Set Up a New Physician for Success
Don’t just throw a new physician into the fire. Here are seven ways to ensure his success in acclimating to your environment.
Letting Go of Your Practice's IT Person or Vendor
Here are 10 things you should consider if you are planning to let go of your practice's IT person or vendor. Don't act rash!
Marketing Your Practice to the Self-Funded Employer Market
The self-funded employer market is a good opportunity for your practice, you just have to let them know your practice is a good fit for them.
Best Online Tools for a Subscription Practice
If you are interested in starting a direct care practice, here are a few tools that will be of assistance to you for documentation, billing, and more.
The Rules Surrounding Telehealth are Changing
Thanks to a new agreement, medical licensure issues won't hold back the growing telehealth industry nearly as much.
5 Self-Assessment Questions Every Older Doctor Should Ask
Are you an older physician considering transitioning your practice to a new owner and/or retiring? Ask these five questions.
Reduce Stress and Run Your Practice Better
Part 1 of a 2-part series on developing a more stress resilient brain and being able to more effectively run your practice.
A Dose of Teamwork Helps Physicians Do Their Best
Tips for creating the ideal physician-led team of experts to ensure maximum productivity and enhanced problem solving.
Meeting Medicare Requirements to Report Telehealth Services
Using telehealth services? Here are the basics on reporting this to Medicare, in order to get properly paid.