October 14th 2025
Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.
October 13th 2025
Outdated systems can quietly hurt scheduling, billing and patient experience. Here’s how to recognize when it’s time for a smarter solution.
October 10th 2025
Enhance efficiency and reduce costs in healthcare practices through small initiatives and smart billing techniques.
October 9th 2025
Manage challenging patients with professionalism and compassion, ensuring a positive experience for your health care team.
October 8th 2025
From communication to consistency, these strategies help you strengthen patient loyalty — and your revenue cycle.
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A significant benefit of investment in and adopting responsible AI is its ability to modernize and streamline outdated PA processes.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
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.