Healthcare Reform

If you are looking for a better understanding of healthcare reform, I recommend a new book by Nick Tate that explains its impact on physicians and patients.

Physicians must transform their business models from merely being service providers. Why being complacent is your worst option.

To help medical practices determine if adding advanced practice clinicians is the right step, here’s a look at four major recruiting trends.

More practices are adding care coordinators and/or patient navigators to their teams. Here’s what these individuals do and why they are becoming so popular.

In what circumstances, if any, should nonphysician providers practice without physician supervision?

How the Sequester and SGR issues illuminate the need to find some type of balance in healthcare spending.

Learn about ACO formation, rules, contract pitfalls, and physician participation from an expert before you commit to joining a new group.

The answer to training more physicians and other providers like PAs has to go beyond didactic training, and include ample opportunities for clinical training.

Patient-Centered-Medical Home and other efforts, when in practice, affect physician independence.

Becoming a medical home could help independent practices survive, but it may not be the right step for all independent practices to take.

Time is limited and money is tight. How can your practice morph into a new practice model and still ensure that it is paid adequately for patient services?

While physician recruitment is challenging, so is retention. Here’s why and how practices can deal.

Business practices generally accepted in other industries can be illegal in healthcare, so it is important to be sure you are in compliance.

Interactions between payers and providers tend to focus on rate negotiations and fees for service, but health reform is changing that.

It is time physicians embrace managing care delivery, not delivering care.

Review your medical practice’s contracts to ensure you are prepared to handle distributing EHR incentive payments before they arrive in the mail.

EHR implementation tips from the medical group that received the 2012 Ambulatory HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence for exemplary EHR use.

Together is the only way we are going to be able meet the challenges facing physicians and other providers in serving the healthcare needs of the patients.

President Bill Clinton discussed the current state and future of healthcare in the U.S., including the role of health IT, at his keynote speech at HIMSS13.

Before attempting to attest for Stage 2, make sure your practice has checked off these must-do items.

Health IT expert Sumit Nagpal shares his must-have technology tools for practices hoping to transition from traditional fee-for-service to value-based reimbursement.

Moving from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursement is no easy task. Leveraging health IT, the right way, can help.

Use this checklist to determine if your medical practice is ready to participate in an ACO.

If your practice is approached about participating in an ACO, will it be prepared to make a smart decision? Here are some tips.

Why one practice transitioned and how it affected physician, staff, patients, and revenue.