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Looking to make the leap from an office-based medical practice to an ambulatory surgery center? Avoid these five common mistakes.

Here are 10 must-read resources for busy physicians and medical practice staff to stay up to date on changes in healthcare.

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

Just a few changes in your operations can create a whole new atmosphere for your patients and encourage them to return to your practice.

It is not the presence of conflict that is critical; it is the ability to resolve it in a productive and healthy manner that matters most.

Once your practice has decided to engage an outside resource for a specific project, be sure to make a good selection.

Web-based marketing can hurt your practice's ability to attract and retain patients if it doesn't maintain a high standard.

A recent article in The New York Times on the annual physical exam stirs debate, and affirms commitment of concierge docs.

The ICD-10 deadline is only nine months away. Here are six questions to ask your software vendors immediately.

You want your new medical practice staff members to become great, loyal employees. Here's how to start off on the right foot.

If your medical practice is among those only partially ready or just in the initial stages of an ICD-10 transition plan, it's time to get moving.

Modifying your layout to better accommodate your EHR doesn't necessarily require a huge investment. Here are low-cost adjustments to consider.

Looking for a way to get a handle on Relative Value Units (RVUs) tied to Medicare payments or even use of RVUs in your own practice? Here's the formula Medicare uses to calculate payments for the services you provide.

Every medical practice should have a compliance officer. Here are 15 tasks to assign this important individual.

If physician leaders explain the benefits and uses of patient portals as a means of better efficiency, then all will quickly adopt it, including staff.

Finding the best resource to pull together and analyze pertinent practice data is a great step in making the best decisions for your business.

Our experts at Physicians Practice Pearls have written on a wide variety of practice-management topics, but these eight columns stood out as the gems.

Outsourcing your billing to a third-party billing company doesn't have to hurt. Good communication is key; here are the important questions you should be asking.

Information requests consume significant resources and represent a real area of risk for medical practices. Here are the top five actions you should take.

Stepping up ICD-10 preparations should be a top 2015 resolution for many medical practices. Here are four tips.

People are often oblivious to their irritating habits. Here are strategies for dealing with three types of irksome behavior.

Mid-December is a great time to celebrate the year's successes and focus on what went right vs. what went wrong at your practice.

Effective communication is a necessity for positive and productive medical practice workplace interactions.

They say that the first year of any new business is the toughest, and we can second that. Here are three lessons we learned that can benefit medical practices.

Here are some common reoccurring issues at the end of each year your practice needs to know about and act on properly.