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Investing time and attention in the medical practice staff hiring process can reduce costs and boost staff retention.

6 Steps to hiring practice staff

 has 20 years of legal experience focused exclusively on asset protection, risk management and wealth preservation. He helps protect a national client base with more than $6 billion in personal assets, including several thousand physicians. He is a contributing author to multiple books for physicians, a Physicians Practice contributor for over a decade and a frequent national CME presenter. Learn more at 

Look at some of the most common risks to your practice and how to manage them.

2023 Medical practice asset protection resolutions 

Bent Philipson is the founder of Philosophy Care, a consulting firm that provides care guidance to skilled nursing facilities throughout New York and New Jersey. Under Bent Philipson’s leadership, Philosophy Care is dedicated to providing each resident with individualized care.

Poor working conditions are responsible for high turnover rates.

What your nurses expect from you (or else they'll quit)

Dr Bernard was a National Health Care Scholar and served at a Federally Qualified Health Center in Immokalee, Florida for six years after her residency. She then worked for a large out-patient hospital group before opening her own practice, which she con

If you’re feeling burned out, don’t let third-party payer demands drive you out of medicine.

How to opt out of Medicare

It’s one area that is not always completed correctly.

Don't forget this important step in your practice's medical billing cycle

Nance Goldstein, MDc, ACC, PhD, partners with physicians as a leadership coach to find ways through today’s tough times and enjoy medicine more.

Her evidence-based work enables physicians to sail through the challenges of influencing others to deliver excellent care. Her clients learn simple, quick ways to lead high quality, thriving care groups – one conversation at a time. She’s an Affiliate Faculty at AriadneLabs (Brigham & Womens Hospital and Harvard’s Chan School of Public Health), as well as a scholar at Brandeis University WSRC. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancegoldstein/

, curates recent research and stories of physicians making medical practice better – leadership that honors their purpose 

 improves their experience of practicing.

Her podcast offers conversations with seasoned women MDs talking about how they navigated the competing demands of practice, family and the rest of life.

She’d like to hear what troubles you in your practice. Email her: 

The generational divide can be a source of friction between coworkers.

Messy moments: Generational conflict among colleagues

Dr. Carolynn Francavilla Brown is board certified in Family Medicine and a Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine. Dr. Francavilla is a family physician and obesity specialist and the owner of a small private practice in Colorado. She also runs 

. She sits on the Obesity Medicine Association Board of Trustees and the Governing Council for the AMA’s Private Practice Physician Section and has previously sat on the Colorado Medical Society Board and the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians Board of Directors.

Here are some tips for starting your own practice and setting yourself — and your patients — up for success from the get-go.

Don't be scared of starting a practice

Pamela Ballou-Nelson, RN, CMPE, MA, MSPH, PhD, is a Principal Consultant with MGMA Consulting and has over 30 years of experience across the continuum of care in healthcare management focusing on practice process transformation, PCMH, workflow analysis, quality measures, care management, population health and patient activation. Email her at 

An employee appreciation program is a great place to start.

Making practice staff feel valued

Lee Barrett is Commission Executive Director at

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Hackers aren't only targeting large health systems anymore.

Small practice security risks on the rise: How to fight back

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Staying small doesn’t make sense anymore.

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