Operations

An exercise at work to improve quality patient care might just benefit from my spouse-communication system at home.

Here's really how the experts figure out what to pay or ask for when it comes to the price of a medical practice.

Here's a list of what your medical practice is required to provide, and what you'll get reimbursed for, regarding Medicare Annual Wellness Visits.

Here’s an easy method for finding nearly unlimited ideas for your medical practice’s next YouTube video.

Physicians and staff may have to spend extra time to reduce the potential of fraud and abuse from durable medical equipment prescriptions.

Every medical practice has them - patients who are persistently late for appointments. Here are four tips to turn the tardy into time conscious.

How family physician Katharina Scharruhn and her partner-husband learned to treat their practice like a business.

Workload inequity can undermine staff motivation and teamwork. Here's how to balance the load.

Want to make the most of the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit? Make it a when and not an if at your medical practice.

Here are seven simple things you can do to reduce no-show patients at your medical practice starting today.

Day-to-day operations at your practice can easily get derailed. Here's how to keep staff on track despite possible disruptions.

You can generate over $50 per Medicare patient per year for asymptomatic screens.

Running a medical practice is hard enough, but when the economy adds stressors, it gets even harder.

An efficient medical practice operates on an effective daily schedule. Here are five tips to employ today to get your office running smoothly.

The best way to optimize your sales price, no matter what the market conditions are like, is to optimize your operations.

Are you aware of how much of your aging accounts receivable balances from secondary insurances that were never followed up on? It's time you investigate.

Employing veterans to help rectify the domestic primary-care provider shortage is a win-win, but more needs to be done.

Not sure where to get started on your medical practice's operations manual? Here's a table of contents to get you started.

An emergency can happen any time at your medical practice, so perhaps now is the best time to have a plan in place and educate staff.

Physicians continue to drop Medicare patients and it will continue unless something is done to reinvigorate enthusiasm on the part of providers.

How are your policies and procedures driven? Here are some great tools for identifying a problem area at your medical practice.

Like anything else, proper implementation of a new practice management system is focused on planning and training.

By empowering your staff, you can improve the performance, care, and service your practice provides. Some call the concept employee empowerment, others call it employee engagement; I call it common sense.

How some private practice physicians are thriving despite decreasing reimbursement, increasing overhead, and hospital acquisition pressures.