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.
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A significant benefit of investment in and adopting responsible AI is its ability to modernize and streamline outdated PA processes.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
The need for physician leadership
Today’s health care environment presents outstanding opportunities for physicians to develop lasting improvements in care delivery by demonstrating and providing leadership.
How to use pay transparency to improve employee retention and recruitment
Pay transparency has been gaining momentum and is considered a step towards pay equity and reducing gender and racial pay gaps.
Barriers to moving to value-based care
‘Winging it’ is not the right approach when providers integrate social determinants of health into care models.
Importance of automation in prior authorization for practices
Even in today’s digital climate, some administrative staff in the healthcare industry still perform the prior authorization process manually, which is a considerable burden
5 Ways to achieve your business goals this year
Time for a mid-year check-in to make sure you are on track.
Value-based care and data
A unified data ecosystem will provide the foundation for the next generation of patient-care technology.
Is work-from-home right for your practice?
Being flexible can attract and retain top talent
6 Tips to make your practice profitable
Operating a profitable medical practice is perhaps more challenging than ever.
How doctors can treat American health care’s $1 trillion administrative headache
The burden of health-care administration has put doctors and small medical groups at a disadvantage compared with larger players and insurance companies.
Practice tip of the week: Six back office billing strategies
7 Ways to stay ahead of the competition
Today's medical practices face the challenge of remaining relevant in an extremely dynamic, competitive, and evolving market.
Beyond the checkbox: The power of proper documentation
By truly mastering the art and science of documentation, practice managers and physicians can enhance patient care, facilitate communication, and defend against potential malpractice claims.