September 15th 2025
Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.
September 10th 2025
Reduce overhead costs while maintaining staff levels and enhancing patient satisfaction with these nine strategies.
September 9th 2025
Eight strategies to enhance patient attraction and retention in your medical practice, ensuring growth in a competitive health care landscape.
September 8th 2025
September 5th 2025
These strategies can prevent last-minute surgery cancellations, and ensure a smoother experience for both patients and physicians.
Matching the right patient engagement strategy to your specialty
Patient engagement should go beyond just administrative work and scheduling appointments.
Developing the day before vacation mentality
Changing your frame of mind when treating patients can improve quality of care and efficiency.
Practice tip of the week: Malpractice defense
Practice tip of the week: Protecting your practice from litigation
5 commonly overlooked cybersecurity practices in fast-growth specialty groups
Don't overlook these five best practices for cybersecurity at your specialty group.
Practice tip of the week: Cybersecurity protection
Storytelling to connect with your patients
The Narrative Medicine movement at Columbia Medical School believes that using stories increases empathy, enhances wellness and resilience, and promotes a more humanistic healthcare culture.
Strategies to grow your medical practice
Growth has its risks, but the right strategy can deliver stability, security, and long-term profits.
Practice tip of the week: Seven sins of communication
The frog in the boiling water and health care
We fail to recognize the danger because we're reluctant to rethink the situation or the heat increases so slowly that we fail to recognize the danger ahead.
Practice tip of the week: Stop procrastinating
How to talk with patients about billing
If you let patients know from the start what you expect from them, you’re far more likely to get the money you’re asking for.
Practice tip of the week: Decreasing patient wait times
Practice tip of the week: Staving off lawsuits
How practices can reduce patient acquisition costs
Patient acquisition costs can quickly cut into your practice's profits.
Practice tip of the week: Hiring staff
17 inches: Health care lessons from a college baseball coach
You can't keep widening the plate.
Practice tip of the week: Put your collections department out of business
Physician flexibility: Bamboo or oak?
How we cope with adversity will ultimately determine our mental and physical health.
Patients share the blame
Patients aren't blameless in the current state of health care in America.
Practice tip of the week: Texting patients
Practice tip of the week: Reducing accounts receivable turnaround
A modern practice’s guide to the patient experience
Focusing on creating a pleasant and thorough patient experience is necessary for the health of a practice.
Practice tip of the week: Improving prior auth burdens
Healthcare costs and the promise to “do no harm”
Less than 1 in 5 physicians and approximately 1 in ten residents were able to provide a price estimate within ±25% of true values across all surveyed costs, charges, and reimbursements.
Controlling overhead costs
While the primary focus remains on providing exceptional patient care, a medical facility’s financial health is crucial for its sustainability and growth.
Reimagining health equity with alternate sites of care
ASOCs are ushering in significant benefits for patients, shifting the healthcare paradigm to favorably impact care, cost, and communication.
Practice tip of the week: Succession planning
Practice tip of the week: Boosting reimbursement
Establish a culture of safety at your practice
Mutual respect is the cornerstone of a culture of patient safety.