Practice Models

To help practices prepare for their value-based care transition, here are three top considerations for success.

When it comes to alleviating capacity strains, urgent care clinics play a pivotal role.

Physicians and employers are tired of waiting for the government to fix health care. So they came together and fixed it themselves.

Surge in membership medicine opportunities fueled by administrative challenges, reimbursement reductions, operating cost escalation and retiring concierge physicians.

One medical group’s path to freedom lights the way for others.

Staying small doesn’t make sense anymore.

Making the change can make it easier to provide care and keep your practice profitable.

Many practices are looking to the flexibility of direct primary care.

You don’t have to be locked in combat with a hospital; in many instances, it can be beneficial for independent physician groups and hospitals to work together.

A brief, focused strategic plan can align staff and drive revenue growth.

The science of personality and why self-awareness matters.

Physician practices are facing an uphill battle in their quest to remain independent

Health coaching might be the middleman the American healthcare system needs to make reform a reality.

When managing a practice gets so tough that you think you may just have to retire early or sell your practice, try to think about what you mean to the patients you serve.

As providers, it’s our job to identify and anticipate what patients need. But, in order to deliver the right care at the right time, we need to re-examine our processes and relationships not only with our patients, but also with one another.

The days of the traditional practice are greatly diminished.

If you don’t identify the coding issues, know that your potential buyer will.

Physicians need to think seriously about what they are trading before they decide to become an employee of a health system instead of a private business owner.

There is a way that physicians-including employed physicians-can manage the effects of healthcare consolidations. 

What traveling halfway around the world taught me about healthcare.

Why would someone who has access to free, quality healthcare pay for healthcare?

If telemedicine is supposed to provide convenient and accessible care, why are so few using these services?

Negotiating with health plans is not about who you are or what you do. It is about fair compensation for what you deliver.

Medicare as rolled out its “direct primary care prototype,” but physicians should look closer at the model as it’s not quite DPC.

Many hospitals have built and grown to diversify fee for service. The movement to shift risk to them leaves many in jeopardy.