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.

This video interview with MGMA consultant Rosemarie Nelson is packed with simple ways physicians can better balance patient care and practice management.

Here are five things you can do now to protect your medical practice in a healthcare landscape under the Affordable Care Act.

Struggling to find and implement the right EHR for your practice? Maybe it's time for some help.

CMS is stepping up efforts to ferret out fraud through its new Center for Program Integrity. Here's what your practice can do to stay below its radar.

Are you ready to make the EHR leap? Training is crucial, but planning comes first.

From preparing for ICD-10 to participating in the EHR meaningful use incentive program, what’s the most difficult aspect of your daily work?

From slow machines to system failures, here's how to deal with the most common technology snafus.

Where do EHRs fit in a world of general purpose and special purpose computers?

Here are some issues to consider and some questions to ask before you become part of a large medical practice.

While the financial benefits of point-of-care dispensing may be appealing, the penalties of non-compliance must be avoided at all costs.

Losing a key member of your medical practice staff not only hurts operations, but it can be costly as well. Here are some tips to retain your top employees.

Florida physician's "feeding tube diet" is courting controversy, but he says it is like any other ancillary service to capture additional revenue.

The reception room delivers a strong message about practice attitudes, priorities, and competence. It may not be the message you want to send.

Frustrated when you have to clean up a mess created by some sub-par competitor in your area? Leverage that angst into an opportunity to promote your practice.

A new report points to changes in the way physicians have traditionally practiced as a key source of declining increases in spending.