Practice Management

Don’t forget your practice’s billing and collections when writing your New Year’s resolutions. 

Physician assistants can improve the quality of care and reduce physicians’ burden, especially when they want to take a vacation.

How to make sense of the dollars and cents at a physician practice.

Medical practices replacing computers and related electronic equipment at year end must carefully manage their disposal to avoid significant liability.

In this digital day and age, physicians need a model for governance and operations that enables them to quickly respond to changes in the market, test new ideas, and apply innovations more broadly to patients’ needs.

Developing the mindset of a best-run practice can help your team address current challenges-and roll more easily with the ones that come your way in the future.

The holiday party season traditionally starts next week, right after Thanksgiving. Consider what your medical practice should and should not be doing at the office party to avoid liability.

A payer contract is more than a mere fee schedule. There are several other factors to consider when deciding to keep or terminate a payer contract.

In order to foster high-performing teams, organizations need both coaches and mentors.

Busy offices rarely have the time to pause, evaluate workflows, and attempt to improve efficiencies across the practice. However, unless you make that time, things are likely to stay the same.

A thorough valuation can help you position your medical practice as an attractive prospect for potential physicians and investors. It’s also a useful exercise to measure the health of your practice.

Expert advice for turning your back office staff into billing and collections all-stars.

Never agree to a deal as presented until you are provided a contract and understand the terms thoroughly.

Physicians must take action and try to get paid accurately for their services.

We need people to maximize their thinking at work, but there are numerous aspects of the workplace that inhibit thinking. Fortunately, brain science can shed some light onto why this occurs.

Here are the basics every physician must be familiar with before implementing any tax plan.

There are ebbs and flows in medical practice volume that are connected to predictable events. If we plan for them, we can make the most of the seasons financially – and serve patients better, too.

Rather than relying on the confusing reports provided by practice management systems and EHRs, use pivot tables to analyze data with ease and produce meaningful reports. 

Many doctors will be solicited to engage in some kind of income tax avoidance planning this fall.

Here is what you need to know about establishing a medication dispensing service at your practice.

This Labor Day, take time to appreciate your staff and reflect on how to improve employee morale and work culture.

Verbal missteps happen to everyone. While ignoring the situation may seem like the best solution at the time, it's not. Here’s how to overcome five common phonetic faux pas.

Consider taking precautions to prevent staff from leaving-and taking your belongings with them.

Make your mission known. Commit (or recommit) your organization and employees to upholding those core beliefs.

Any medical practice with multiple owners must have a funded buy-sell agreement in place to protect the partners and their families from the death or exit of a partner.

The commonalities between PAs and physicians far outweigh the few differences that we have.

Honing leadership skills is essential for a manager. Here are four ways to become better leaders for staff and patients.

Fill that empty seat (or pull up another one) by recruiting an experienced healthcare executive to your medical group board.

Physicians are specialists in medical care, but they sometimes need help with the business side of medical practice.

In part two of this series, learn strategies to effectively enact change at your practice.