Physician's Practice spoke with Paul Joiner, chief operating officer of Availity, to discuss the implications of an American Medical Association survey and find out how you can improve your prior authorization processes.

Improving the prior authorization process

Physician's Practice® spoke with Elizabeth Woodcock, founder and Principal of Woodcock and Associates, about what physicians need to know when setting up telehealth services at their practice.

Establishing Telehealth Services at Your Practice

The pandemic has shed a light on the importance of communicating with patients. Physician's Practice speaks with Dr. Tashfeen Ekram about why now is the best time to start developing these strategies and how they can help encourage patients to return to your practice.

Developing and Maintaining Patient Communication Strategies

Coding expert Bill Dacey, principal of The Dacey Group, answers viewers questions in this second installment of our Coding Q&A podcast series.

Coding Q&A Podcast 2: Problem management credits; A/P notes for AWVs 

Vice President of Physicain's Services, R1

Physician’s Practice® presents our conversation Dan Dooley, vice president of physician services at R1—a leading provider of technology--enabled revenue cycle management—about how the pandemic will change revenue cycle management, as well as how practices can achieve financial clearance and thereby further support their patients. 

Financial clearance, patient advocacy, and the effects of the pandemic on revenue cycle management

Bill Dacey, president and CEO of The Dacey Group, pens the popular Coding Columns on Physician's Practice. In our first podcast version of this column, we answer contributed questions on provider types, protocols, and patient behavior.

Coding Q&A: Mixing provider types, protocols, and patient behavior

In part 2 of our discussion with Banker’s Healthcare Group, hear from the President of Patient Lending, Keith Gruebele, on how these programs can benefit your practice by extending the amount of patients that can receive and finance your services.

Practice Financing Part 2: Patient Lending Programs

In this episode of Perspectives, hear about how physicians can establish new practices or finance existing ones with loans, as well as how and when to implement business cards in your practice, from Banker's Healthcare Group's CMO, Chris Panebianco.

Practice Financing Part 1: Loans and Credit Cards

Sachin Gupta, CEO of IKS Health, discusses how independent practices can remain administratively stable during the pandemic and after, as well as provides the key determinants of success for new and growing practices.

Practice Administration Stability and Key Determinants of Success

A new report from CI Security suggests cybersecurity breaches were lower during healthcare's rapid transition to virtual care throughout the pandemic. In this episode of Perspectives, we look at why this might be and other aspects of their report with CI Security's Healthcare Executive Strategist, Drex DeFord. 

Cybersecurity breach reports low during the pandemic

A brief overview of some of the key regulatory updates enacted during the pandemic, as well as new claim threats that physicians may face in the near future.

Regulatory Updates and New Claim Threats Stemming from the Pandemic

Careful communications can help improve your collection methods and decrease time between service and payment.

Improving Collections with Empathy

The Healthcare Administrative Technology Association talks to us at HIMSS18 about familiar pain points for practices.

Solving the Prior Authorization Problem through Tech

The Budget Act that passed Congress recently included "small changes" to MACRA with the potential to make a big difference, says one expert.

Analyzing Budget Act's Impact on MACRA 

In this podcast, AMA President David O. Barbe, MD talks about the accommodations that CMS has made towards small practices in MACRA.

AMA Pres: MACRA Has Been Made Favorable for Small Practices

The professional model of medicine is trying to reach a sweet spot, allowing physicians to remain independent but maximize the power of a larger organization.

When Physicians are Owners AND Employees

Due to the "pick your pace" flexibility for year one of the Medicare Quality Payment Program, one expert says it's hard to evaluate how physicians did. 

Hard to Assess Year One of MACRA, Says Expert

Texas was one of the five Best States to Practice. Dr. Carlos Cardenas talks to us about what makes it so friendly to physicians.

A Physician's Case for Choosing the Lone Star State 

The MGMA’s Anders Gilberg discusses the impact of Tom Price resigning his post at HHS.

Predicting the Impact of Price's Departure at HHS 

Stephen Jones, MD, isn't looking to make a name for himself in comedy, he's looking to get patients in the door for their well visits. 