August 26th 2025
With hundreds of options on the market, here’s how to find a system that truly works for your practice.
August 25th 2025
Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.
August 21st 2025
Want to improve patient satisfaction and streamline operations? These 12 front desk refresh strategies can transform your practice’s first impression.
Practical, front-desk-tested tips to improve patient flow, reduce stress and boost satisfaction.
August 18th 2025
8 Steps to follow when firing practice employees
Letting someone go is never easy, but here are key tips to handle it the right way.
Digital check-ins: The solution to patients' top healthcare complaint
For the fourth year in a row, patients' biggest gripe was waiting times and not enough staff.
EHR outages and patient safety
Recent outages are a reminder of how crucial it is for physicians and health care facilities to protect themselves in such an event.
Planning your practice's 2024 strategy
Keep these things in mind when formulating your strategy for next year.
How a budget can boost your practice's performance
Practices that don’t develop and regularly review a budget are missing out on a tool that can provide warning signs of financial trouble.
The Alamo redux or how Davids defeat the Goliaths of healthcare
Small practices can still thrive in the backyard of large practices or large medical corporations.
Retaining staff takes more than money
Training, tailored benefits and paths for career advancement help build loyalty and reduce employee attrition
Giving your practice a checkup: Motivating your staff
The importance of motivating employees by providing measurable and written goals through a concise, effective mission statement and policy manual.
5 Tips for crafting a compelling and informative job ad
The proper job ad can ease the struggle to fill practice staff positions.
Increasing productivity through talent management
Is your practice as productive as it could be?
Giving your practice a checkup: Generating new patients using social media
The importance of social media to your practice's growth.
Advancing DEI in health care
Overcoming communication challenges and fostering inclusive practices for physicians.
AI meets population data: Redefining health outcomes by predicting and preventing chronic illnesses
A significant benefit of investment in and adopting responsible AI is its ability to modernize and streamline outdated PA processes.
How you can influence your practice's health insurance renewal
Where your employees get their healthcare care impacts your income.
Giving your practice a checkup: Keeping patients happy
Tips to keep your current patients happy.
Succession planning and physician personalities
There are many tried and true steps physician partners can take to facilitate the smooth transition of ownership.
MGMA Leaders Conference 2023: 4 Tips for reducing “low value care”
Payers are seeking to eliminate payments for care they deem unnecessary.
Practice tip of the week: Effectively manage medical practice staff
Improve patient experience with background music
The right soundtrack can help patients feel more relaxed, reduce anxiety, and make visits more enjoyable.
Navigating inflation’s impact on healthcare affordability
Skyrocketing out-of-pocket healthcare costs and unexpected medical expenses are outpacing inflationary pressures which have already decimated the budgets of many American families.
Private practice preferred by patients
Most patients don’t have a specific ownership preference, but those that do overwhelming prefer independent private practices
5 Training tips for your practice staff
Help your educated staff to apply what they learn in school to the real-life practice setting.
You're not abandoning patients: The direct primary care model
While some claim it is unethical for physicians to go the direct-pay route, it actually provides better care to patients.
7 Tips to help you decide where to practice
Regardless of timing, selecting where to practice merits careful investigation.
Practice tip of the week: Tips to Improve Physician Productivity
The strategic role of AI in empowering independent medical practices against industry consolidation
There’s no need to fear being replaced by AI.
5 Tips to help stop theft in your back office
Follow these simple tips to detect-and prevent-financial fraud in your medical practice.
Forgo strategic planning at your own peril
5 Ways to finally reach the Emerald City of value-based care
Over a decade after being promised change was on the way, physicians and other providers can start taking tangible steps towards a better system.
Practice tip of the week: Making prior authorizations less burdensome