Billing & Collections

Here's a simple checklist of common issues to consider when you are thinking of buying an existing medical practice or buying out a retiring partner / practice owner.

If you are looking for a simple way to control your medical practice finances, here it is: the end-of-day report.

Two proposals released last week could lead to higher physician reimbursement.

Performance measurements for physicians are well-intentioned and get me to rethink how I practice. But in the end I won't make the goals, so I'll have to go with balance over perfection.

The AWV yields three times higher reimbursement for physicians than the average outpatient visit, yet many physicians and patients are failing to utilize it.

The “Seven Deadly Sins” easily represent human nature, business, and spending issues you must overcome as a healthcare executive and practice owner.

How to keep your practice up to date with changing healthcare policies and industry standards.

From being a small business owner to ensuring patients are coming in for routine visits and following treatment plans, this trying economy is impacting all facets of medical practice.

Want the right way for your staff to get patient data during scheduling and visits? Here's a handy guide to print and post at your practice.

We'll help you accurately measure your overhead costs -- and compare them to national benchmarks.

A look at an insurance-based strategy to protect a medical practice’s income after the individual physicians’ personal assets are well secured.

Choosing the right health plan for my staff means balancing business expense and employee satisfaction.

Many practices make common collection mistakes that when left unattended can sap revenue. Here's what you can do to improve your collection process.

Some optimists believe the full potential of EHRs will not be realized by practices where income remains tied to the number of face-to-face encounters that can be squeezed into a day.

Tending to the patient’s health in partnership with their fiscal health is the training ground for the inevitable shift from fee-based services to hybrid forms of reimbursement.

Here's how physicians can acquire executive-level knowledge on complex issues in a time- and cost-efficient way.

It’s more critical than ever that your medical practice has a suitable business plan. Does it?

Innovation is great. Litigation isn't. Here's how to use the latest tech tools at your practice properly and within the letter of the law.

It is vital that practices have systematic ways to address patient collections; the following strategies can help your practice collect all that it is due.

Perhaps Congress hopes some sort of solution to the SGR will unexpectedly land on its doorstep. And perhaps it finally has - in the form of unspent war funds.

Be willing to take action and responsibility as the CEO of your medical business including delegating the management of financial issues to experts.

9 steps to creating and preserving your patient pipeline

Converting the back of an ambulance to a modern office now allows me to see my patients at their home or work in my mobile office.

To sell or not to sell? That seems to be the question that so many physicians in independent practices are asking. But maybe they should be asking something different?

Here's how to rethink the work day to find the balance you need with the rest of your life as a physician.

While medical practices vary widely in complexity and income, the successful ones all share one common trait: they plan ahead and look to the past for guidance.

Adding ancillary services can be a great way to better service your patients and increase practice income. But do it the right way.

Finding the best folks to contribute to your team isn't an easy task. Here's how to figure out what, and ultimately who, you need.

The proposal would help physicians dodge a 29.5 percent pay to Medicare services, but it would slam them with other - perhaps more serious - problems.

To simplify the healthcare dilemma as merely an offshoot of the drive for “profits” is certainly to understate the problem, though the words are not entirely off base.