Operations

You may think limiting visit questions will improve patient flow at your medical practice. Well, think again, as the problem is likely your operations.

One hospital rewards surgeons who finalize operative reports with golf balls, thus discouraging its objective by providing incentives for a different behavior.

Clear policies and processes for handling denials can affect your bottom line by improving your revenue cycle, decreasing staff costs, and increasing cash flow.

Many practices struggle to sustain the changes they made in Stage One. Here's how not to be one of them.

A healthy organization is crucial to success, but many practices are plagued by dysfunction.

Whether you work for a huge medical conglomerate or a small private clinic, you may not have much say regarding what you wear to do your job. You do, however, have full control over how you wear it.

Improving physician and staff communication is critical to Patient-Centered Medical Home Success. Here are some tips.

When something is discovered that an EHR should do, but doesn’t, the response is to devise a workaround vs. rebuilding or remodeling the system.

As a physician, undergoing the same procedures you order for patients can provide insight, empathy, and a lot of compassion.

Today, there are several ways to communicate with patients, but medical practices must choose wisely so the messages are properly received.

Here are three tips to prepare your medical practice for success in the 21st century.

Unless primary-care physicians can organize and affect change, private practice is doomed, says neurosurgeon Ben Carson of the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.

The phone bill, utilities, bank charges - dealing with these bills at your medical practice should mirror your personal approach.

In healthcare, size matters. That's always been true, but several factors are combining in many markets to accelerate the pace of provider group consolidation.

Here are six basic principles to protect funds coming into a medical practice from embezzlement as well as some red flags to watch.

Tips and strategies for medical practices to successfully negotiate payer contracts and monitor payers.

Some efficient and coordinated scheduling of the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit can benefit patients and your medical practice.

On top of tending to patient concerns, staff issues, and the daily ins and outs of medical practice, I'm now tasked with property management. Sigh.

The Stark Law is clear on your medical practice and gifts from referring physicians, patients, and others. Here's what you need to know.

Judicious delegation is the mark of a great manager, right? Here’s why you should delegate as little marketing as possible in your medical practice.

Patient-Centered Medical Homes seek to return primary care to the hub of care, but I wonder about the benefits for patients and if it truly reduces healthcare costs.

Strategic planning as a process implies a look at the future and anticipation of changes. Your practice mission statement, values, and past performance will all dictate how your practice will respond to future events.

Want to reduce possible embezzlement and detect fraud at your medical practice? Monitor your various financial accounts closely using these tips.

Get answers to all of your ICD-10 conversion questions from Jackie Stack of the AAPC in this on-demand webinar.

Presently, physicians and patients are primarily involved in treatment, not prevention. Is it time to swing the pendulum the other way?