August 26th 2025
With hundreds of options on the market, here’s how to find a system that truly works for your practice.
August 25th 2025
Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.
August 21st 2025
Want to improve patient satisfaction and streamline operations? These 12 front desk refresh strategies can transform your practice’s first impression.
Practical, front-desk-tested tips to improve patient flow, reduce stress and boost satisfaction.
August 18th 2025
The art of finding and giving forgiveness
Forgiveness is necessary to keep moving forward toward success and emotional stability in your practice and life.
Helping make value-based care work for primary care
VBC and its payment models are not designed or implemented in such a way that makes it possible for primary care physicians to take part.
Practice tip of the week: Automated coding and reimbursement
Practice tip of the week: Eliminating bottlenecks
Practice tip of the week: Boosting your reimbursement
Marketing 2.0: Determining the cost per lead and the lifetime value of patients
It is necessary to have metrics for gauging the effectiveness of your marketing efforts.
Navigating the staffing shortage strain: Solutions for a sustainable future
The relentless workload and extended hours place significant strain on nurses’ resilience, disrupting their work-life balance and making self-care increasingly elusive.
2024 Physicians Practice best states to practice: 10-1
The absolute top states in our definitive ranking of which are best for physicians.
Practice tip of the week: Renegotiating payer contracts
Loneliness: Another epidemic
Nearly one-third of U.S. adults aged 45 and older report feeling lonely.
2024 Physicians Practice best states to practice: 20-11
The penultimate entry in our definitive ranking of which states are best for physicians.
Practice tip of the week: Feeling overwhelmed
Who is your worthy successor?
You’re a great leader, and you run your practice like a well-oiled machine. But what happens when you’re gone?
2024 Physicians Practice best states to practice: 30-21
The definitive ranking of which states are best for physicians continues.
Practice tip of the week: Things NOT to say to patients
2024 Physicians Practice best states to practice: 40-31
2024 Physicians Practice best states to practice: 50-41
The definitive ranking of which states are best for physicians.
Best States to Practice 2024: How we got our results
The method behind our definitive list of the best states for practicing medicine.
Practice tip of the week: Collecting from patients
AI In health care: It's not binary
AI helps to reduce unnecessary expenses, making advanced medical care more affordable.
Bringing people together for strategic planning
Stephen A. Dickens, vice president at SVMIC, explains how to approach bringing different stakeholders together to develop a strategic plan and what the most common challenges are in reaching a consensus.
Emerging trends in medical practice security
Ashkan Nikou, head of security at Bluegrass Orthopaedic, describes some of the emerging trends in health care facility security.
Is medical debt making patients sicker?
Physicians, and employers, need to start taking financial toxicity seriously.
How to minimize your malpractice risk
Jennifer Wiggins, CEO of Aegis Malpractice Solutions, discusses how to minimize your practice's malpractice risk using the AVOID method.
Practice tip of the week: Billing mistakes to avoid
Consider the patient experience
Actionable patient data lives in your digital engagement tools — use it!
Making sure your strategic plan stays flexible
Stephen A. Dickens, vice president at SVMIC, explains how to ensure that the strategic planning process remains flexible enough to adapt to unforeseen changes in the healthcare landscape.
Security advice for smaller medical practices
Ashkan Nikou, head of security at Bluegrass Orthopaedic, explains how leaders at smaller, resource-limited practices can still keep patients and staff safe.
Practice tip of the week: Avoiding a malpractice suit
What were the most common triggers for malpractice claims in the past year?
Jennifer Wiggins, CEO of Aegis Malpractice Solutions, walks us through some of the most common triggers for claims in the last year and how they match up with years past.