Practice Management

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

An employee appreciation program is a great place to start.

Hackers aren't only targeting large health systems anymore.

Staying small doesn’t make sense anymore.

Healthcare is undergoing a seismic and highly visible shift that poses a serious threat to traditional care providers.

Creating a strategic exit plan from your practice is an important step that many physicians put off.

The right communication strategy can keep you from losing a patient.

Specialist MD wants great care for his patient, and tells the care group they are failing him.

It's never too early to start planning next year's strategy.

Who do you want on your team, the go-getters or the gunnas?

Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.

Physicians need a seat at the leadership table because they are uniquely qualified to keep the care in healthcare.

Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.

Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.

It's important to mediate clashes between members of your health care team.

Value-based care isn’t going anywhere.

Adjustments to how your practice handles daily administrative tasks can help decrease staff burnout, increase patient satisfaction, and maximize profits.

All are important, with key differences

Secure communications platforms can help reduce the hassle of trying to communicate with physicians, other care providers, staff, and patients.

A clean office is not only necessary for patient health, it's also good for business.

MGMA’s man in Washington, D.C. gives his rundown of what the organization is keeping an eye on with prior authorizations and telehealth.

A medical practice needs to have both leaders and managers.

It can be difficult for staff when they are in conflict with someone more senior than themselves.

Outcomes-based models are spreading, but fee-for-service still dominates payment landscape.

For many clinicians, consumerism is a concept that is not very tangible, so practitioners may not know how to fight something that they cannot see, feel, or touch.

For the majority of practices, real estate is the second highest expense behind payroll.

The most common reason for strategy failure is that they failed to build execution into their strategic planning process.

Monetary micro-incentives routed directly to individual clinicians are being used to shift providers into value-based behaviors without the need to re-contract rates or design new payment models.

Ways to create psychological safety in your care group.

Regardless of the reason for selling, there are numerous complex issues a medical practice must consider when its owners decide to sell.