September 16th 2025
Electronic health record vendors use different pricing models, add-ons and service fees that can quickly inflate your costs. These six tips will help you budget wisely and keep your system working for your practice.
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
Practice tip of the week: Controlling overhead costs
General George Patton and the physician's white coat
Does a doctor's appearance still matter? How the white coat, hygiene and professional attire impact patient trust, satisfaction and perceptions of physician competence in modern healthcare.
10 tips to protect revenue when costs rise
Discover expert strategies for medical practices to manage rising supply and device costs driven by inflation and tariffs.
Trump tariff order exempts pharmaceuticals, no word on other medical practice supplies
New tariffs from the Trump administration exempt pharmaceuticals but may still raise costs and disrupt supply chains for medical practices.
11 proven ways to improve patient satisfaction at your practice
Discover 11 proven strategies to boost patient satisfaction, enhance the patient experience and improve retention at your medical practice.
The doorknob question
Neil Baum, MD, tells how to deal with last minute patient questions.
The critical link between provider wellness and its impact on patient satisfaction
Prioritizing provider wellness is essential to improving patient care quality, reducing clinician burnout, and enhancing healthcare outcomes across medical organizations.
Practice tip of the week: Increasing patient visits
Lessons from Sister Jean to her Loyola team and to physicians
Discover timeless life and leadership lessons from Sister Jean, Loyola Chicago’s beloved 105-year-old basketball chaplain, and how her wisdom inspires teamwork, resilience and discipline in medicine and beyond.
The ABCs of medical practice transactions
Understanding the legal structures of medical practice acquisitions—asset purchase, stock purchase, or merger—is essential for practice administrators navigating today’s complex, high-stakes transaction landscape.
Acing the interview
Neil Baum, MD, gives actionable interview tips to help you take your career to the next level.
14 proven ways to reduce patient wait times
Why improving wait times matters — and how your practice can do it efficiently.
Practice tip of the week: Leading your medical practice
Red Adair, oil well fires and defending your fees
Discussing costs with patients is a conversation many physicians avoid, but they're doing their practice a disservice.
13 tips for firing practice employees
Discover 13 essential tips for legally and compassionately terminating a medical practice employee, ensuring HIPAA compliance, protecting patient privacy and safeguarding your practice’s reputation.
Easing physician burnout: How remote support is reducing administrative overload
With seamless technology enabling collaboration between in-office and remote teams, administrative workflows can be managed efficiently, ensuring continuity of care.
Congress has failed practices again
Doctors are dealing with a ton of challenges all at once, and seeing their reimbursement shrink while costs to do business increase is a major problem.
Handling phone calls with difficult patients
Neil Baum, MD, gives tips on dealing with difficult callers at your medical practice.
Practice tip of the week: Why social media is important to your practice
Practice tip of the week: Malpractice landmines
The truth about physicians and the supply chain
Approaching supply chain decisions in a way that solicits provider input while also considering the needs of patients and health systems creates efficiencies as well as a basis for quality and safety improvements.
8 tips for hiring members of Gen Z
Discover how Gen Z’s emphasis on mental health, digital fluency, and flexibility compares to Baby Boomers, Gen X, and Millennials—and what it means for building a thriving, multigenerational healthcare workforce.
Messy moments: Saying no when you mean it
Overwhelming tasks and unreasonable deadlines squeeze our cognitive capabilities. Choosing what you can handle improves our clarity and intelligence.
Moving from quantity to quality
Neil Baum, MD, explains how you can move your practice from focusing on quantity of care to quality of care.
"Nobody wants to work:" A generational guide for practice staffing
How evolving workplace attitudes are transforming healthcare staffing, as COVID-19 accelerates trends like remote work, mental health support, and modernized technology.
Practice tip of the week: Making the most of VBC
Successfully implementing AI into your practice: A strategic and tactical approach
How can organizations bridge the gap between AI’s potential and its acceptance among providers and staff?
Price transparency tips
Neil Baum, MD, discusses what price transparency means and how your practice can use it to thrive.
Practice succession planning steps
Most physicians are caught on the “entrepreneur merry-go-round”, dealing with business issues, family, staff, banks and so on, and find it difficult even to plan this year’s strategy, let alone figure out whether it’s time to sell.
Practice tip of the week: How to mentor doctors