Billing & Collections

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.

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?