Billing & Collections

Including three precautionary steps in your evaluation process of a disability and medical liability insurer for your practice is a worthy investment.

Allergy testing is a potential new revenue source for your medical practice to consider in order better serve patients. Here's info on United Allergy Services.

If Congress fails to avert the Medicare SGR pay cut, many physicians will shut their doors to new Medicare patients. But things could get even worse.

HDL provides physicians the ability to perform comprehensive lab tests for the early detection of several issues while also adding revenue.

Here is an easy and quick tip that will immediately increase your inflow with minimal time and effort from treating staff at your medical practice.

Physicians continue to drop Medicare patients and it will continue unless something is done to reinvigorate enthusiasm on the part of providers.

Florida physician's "feeding tube diet" is courting controversy, but he says it is like any other ancillary service to capture additional revenue.

Looking for a simple tool to create a payment plan for your patients? Here's one to download and use at your medical practice.

Here's a simple form to download and use at your medical practice to set up a payment plan with patients.

Use this simple worksheet for better financial control at your private medical practice.

The AMA is recommending a “multipronged approach” to slow Medicare cost growth.

With all the talk of trimming healthcare spending, perhaps it is time to look at indirect costs - administrative and regulatory procedures with no proven benefit.

Want to take the pulse of your medical practice's finances? Try this easy-to-use tool to conduct a fiscal check-up on your office.

In Part 4 of our start-up series, we’ll address the foundational issues on your practice’s single largest asset and its greatest liability: employees.

Here are three established valuation approaches to take the guesswork and emotion out of looking at your medical practice.

Buying the perfect building for your medical practice requires you to consider much more than “location, location, location.”

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.