Staffing & Salary

Slideshows

Can your employee handbook get you in trouble?

8 tips for avoiding employee handbook crises 

A smartphone can be a distraction to staff members and also a potential HIPAA violation waiting to happen. Here are tips to avoid that at your practice.

Six tips for your employee cell phone policy

Videos

A third-year medical student discusses the longitudinal clerkship model and what makes it different from traditional clerkship models.

Student Perspective: The longitudinal clerkship model 

 advises clients on compliance, transactions, government administrative actions, and litigation involving healthcare, cybersecurity, corporate and securities law, as well as False Claims Act and Dodd-Frank whistleblower cases. She also teaches bioethics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Rachel can be reached through her website, 

Articles

A few notable items seemingly intersect with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

EEOC releases updated COVID-19 guidance for employers

When annual reviews for practice employees come around, having measurable metrics in place will make the meeting go more smoothly. Here are some ideas.

Measurable metrics to review medical practice staff

Getting the best employees requires offering an attractive salary and benefits package. Getting the best work from those employees requires something more.

Six ways to motivate your team for free

 has 20 years of legal experience focused exclusively on asset protection, risk management and wealth preservation. He helps protect a national client base with more than $6 billion in personal assets, including several thousand physicians. He is a contributing author to multiple books for physicians, a Physicians Practice contributor for over a decade and a frequent national CME presenter. Learn more at 

A bare minimum checklist for your business.

Asset Protection and Physician Family Businesses 

Looking for the positive in the pandemic. 

 7 reasons to be happy you’re in primary care

 is president of CompHealth, the nation’s largest provider of locum tenens physicians and founder of the traveling physician industry. She joined CompHealth in 2001 as a sales consultant and served in a variety of management roles prior to being named president in 2017. Lisa is passionate about building lasting relationships and helping her team members reach their highest potential.

Leaders from several organizations explain how they’re meeting the needs of their patients and employees.

Three ways healthcare facilities are rebounding from COVID-19

Ericka L. Adler, JD, LLM has practiced in the area of regulatory and transactional healthcare law for more than 20 years. She represents physicians and other healthcare providers across the country in their day-to-day legal needs, including contract negotiations, sale transactions, and complex joint ventures. She also works with providers on a wide variety of compliance issues such as Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, and HIPAA. Ericka has been writing for Physicians Practice since 2011.

Employers should continue to enforce all recommended COVID precautions within the practice and remain vigilant of changes in state and federal laws.

Employment