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Because it's impossible to stay on time all the time, here are our top 10 reception room recommendations for quality reading materials

When you are sick, dealing with a difficult organization is the last thing you want to do. Here are some easy ways to endear your practice to its patients.

Staff members with compelling life difficulties can derail your practice goals. Just make sure that you don't let your compassion cloud your better business judgment.

Our Physician Compensation Survey offers a glimpse into the financial challenges and opportunities for physicians.

Work responsibilities, family time, and community activities can make it challenging to maintain a realistic schedule. Here are six steps to success.

Exploring a problem or initiative with a new perspective can reveal a better way of accomplishing tasks.

As patients shoulder more of their healthcare costs, practices must step up patient payment collections efforts. Here are some tips.

The more partners in a physician-owned practice, the more difficult it can be to address problems. Here's how to overcome the inertia.

Despite many advantages, the AWV is a free service that virtually no one knows about. Don't miss out on clear benefits to patients and your practice.

Want to save time and boost reimbursement at your medical practice? Offer shared medical visits. Here's how.

Robert Tennant of the Medical Group Management Association offers tips to practices to create a strategy for the ICD-10 transition.

More than ever, and while you may not want to accept it, practicing medicine is running a business. And you have to make changes that reflect this thinking.

Despite the doom and gloom associated with ICD-10, the new codes could actually provide better care for patients and better reimbursement to physicians.

Now is the season for planning and creating a strategy for a practice that can survive the future. Here are six roles to fill at your office today.

If physicians are going absorb additional patients and regulations of healthcare reform, they'll need their EHRs to provide better tools and impose fewer tasks.

My fellow physicians, we are a really smart group of people that have not received the proper instruction for the business world.

Free health clinics will not only continue to see an increased demand for patients, but they might even take some from private practices.

How one medical practiced saved more than $390,000 and got financially stable.

Providing quality patient care is a prime contributor to physician satisfaction, while negative factors associated with EHRs increased physician frustration.

Enterprise risk management can be a valuable tool for medical practices in anticipating, planning, and preventing certain patient care decisions.

Business expert and author Sam Silverstein urges medical practices to establish their beliefs, never stray from them, and to cut out excuses.

If not knowing how your practice is doing overall keeps you awake at night, it's time to start monitoring eight simple metrics for measure.

Michael O'Connell of Marymount Hospital in Ohio discusses key steps your medical practice can take to ensure a safe environment for patients and staff.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month is an ideal time for providers to educate patients on prevention efforts and the quest for a cure.