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Many practices struggle with providing same-day care. But in many cases, offering flexibility may mean the difference between keeping and losing a patient.

Waste of supplies and time is the biggest threat to net income in any practice. Put your staff's knowledge about how things really work to your advantage.

For medical practices with clinical laboratories, compliance with formal proficiency testing must be a priority.

Assessing your medical practice for risks and determining the likelihood and severity of impact will help you determine the most important areas to focus on.

Here are three general processes your practice should take into consideration when building its CDI program for better documentation and coding.

CDI will be important with ICD-10 to ensure your practice is staying on top of the clinical documentation and accurate coding. Here's what you need to know.

Adding ancillary services may seem like a good idea. Before you commit, consider the fit with your practice and the total costs.

The end of the year is a good time to a handle performance reviews. They are a key part of the process to encourage continued success and stellar performance.

Technology is a must in accountable care coordination, but also presents challenges. Here are three solutions to achieve the goal of quality patient care.

The promise of technology is to reduce work flow and to reap smoother operations. But are you using technology in your practice to its full advantage?

A social media policy is critical for all medical practices. Here are three key items that every policy should include.

In theory, prioritizing patients was great. In practice, however, it ran into three obstacles, namely patients, my staff, and referring physicians.

Accumulating too many items can lead to disorganization and stress. To take control, follow these three principles.

Physician compensation wasn't stellar last year, but don't give up. There are plenty of ways to jump-start your practice operations to maximize what you've got.

Physicians, at least those who find private practice attractive, should develop proposals and present those to hospital leaders when it comes to partnerships.

Five recommendations to help ensure your medical practice has clear, consistent staff benefit and compensation policies that comply with state law.

Whether you are hoping to solve a problem at your practice or simply trying to improve a process, the easy-to-follow OODA Loop method can help.

Helping patients accept your nonphysician providers.

Combining forces to work as a team will increase your practice's chances of getting paid, and can actually decrease workload.

A change by CMS to its claims submission process for Medicare Advantage affects both physicians and their practices. Here's what you need to know.

Practice employees are more than salaries. If you use them in the right places at the right time, they are revenue generators supporting your physicians.

In this podcast, healthcare consultant Craig Greenberg shares three tasks every practice manager should complete before the end of 2014.

Practice managers often fall in to common office habits, but going against conventional practice may result in a better office culture and cost savings.

Market forces are driving new healthcare models, so it's critical to look at your practice's future. And collaboration may be the key to any kind of longevity.

"Better-performing medical practices" excel in four performance categories, according to the MGMA. How does your practice stack up?