Contracts

Five ways your medical practice can better control its payer contracts and boost reimbursement.

Keeping track of contract renewals can be tedious, but there are many techniques medical practices can use to simplify the task.

Asking questions - especially the hard ones - benefits you as a physician and can do the same in negotiations.

Here are six strategies to help practices and hospitals come together whether they are seeking to merge operations or simply enhance their working relationship.

Looking for longevity as a medical practice? Joshua Halverson of ECG Management Consultants offers tips on survival and how to increase your practice's value.

Here's an overview of hospital-based coverage contracts involving physicians and five key compliance tips to keep in mind.

Your practice's business associates can lead to HIPAA issues. Here are three tips to ensure your vendors can ensure the safety of protected health information.

If you have been terminated by a provider, or notified you will be terminated, here's what you should know to know your recourse as a medical practice.

Here's what the requirement to be "commercially reasonable" means under the Stark Law and Anti-kickback Statute and what physicians need to know.

Leasing your medical practice to a hospital? You may want to consider these 15 contract provisions to ensure your practice is protected for the future.

In the new value-based reimbursement environment, co-management arrangements can align the interests of physicians and hospitals. Here's what you need to know.

Your medical practice's value plays an important part in its future. Here are six ways to boost your practice's value, starting today.

One way to ensure patients understand your payment requirements is to ask them to sign a payment policy. Here's a sample policy to consider adapting for your practice.

If you decide to terminate a physician or other provider at your practice, here are three key things to keep in mind to help your remaining staff and patients.

Physicians sometimes fall behind in their paperwork and take work home to complete. Are you aware of the risks that raises for your practice?

Let's take the mystery out of business associate agreements. Here's when you need to use them and why.

Whether a physician wants to walk away from hospital employment or stay employed, adequate preparation before the contract comes to a close is critical.

From a sample patient dismissal letter to an RVU calculator; these 10 resources will help your practice operate in a more efficient and compliant manner.

Use this sample patient credit card authorization policy to ensure your medical practice is able to collect what it is owed.

In this podcast, consultant Susanne Madden shares how medical practices can store patient credit card numbers securely and effectively.

Here's a sample confidentiality agreement practices can use with their vendors, courtesy of attorney Amy Fehn of HealthLawOffices.com.

Medical practices need to identify, document, and manage vendor relations more so than ever under the HIPAA Omnibus Rule. Here are some steps to help.

The best time for physicians to plan their exit from an employment contract, operating agreement, or merger is when the initial deal is being negotiated.

While selling your medical practice and becoming a hospital employee has its perks, it also has some big drawbacks.

In my work performing practice evaluations for physicians for negotiating the sale of their practice, I've found five ways to improve their bargaining power.