Self Pay

By the very nature of our healthcare industry there always have been - and always will be - differences in care.

Here are some key tips you can take to increase the volume of fee-for-service / cash paying patients at your medical practice.

Practice Notes blogger Wayne Lipton recently wrote that patients in concierge practices have more respect for their doctors.

How some private practice physicians are thriving despite decreasing reimbursement, increasing overhead, and hospital acquisition pressures.

Many doctors in traditional practices feel like Rodney Dangerfield: They don't get no respect. But physicians in concierge practices are different.

Here are some issues to consider and some questions to ask before you become part of a large medical practice.

Contemplating the membership model? Here are some of the key things to consider.

Ever wondered what the future holds for your practice and your career? Here are four scenarios that might provide a better picture.

Feel like you can't do the fee-for-service practice model anymore? Here are several examples of new models in primary care that may the answer for you.

When developing a concierge approach for your medical practice, there are six things I recommend doing first.

More physicians are opting for employment over the partnership track, hoping to avoid the headaches and hassles of owning a business. But is that that the right choice for you?

To go concierge or not? That is the question.

As medical reimbursements continue to dwindle, the value proposition for participating in insurance plans becomes increasingly weak. Why not break with tradition and contract directly with employers? Here's how to get started.

The future of the direct-pay practice model is bright. Here's how it works, the affect on patients, and where it fits with models promoted by healthcare reform.

When patients demur over paying for care, don't be a soft touch - there are things you can do to collect

Everyone take a deep breath. You won't have to put your foot in the door to stop Medicare patients from coming to see you or consider the move to concierge medicine just yet, as Congress has officially delayed pay cuts for physicians.

A staggering 40 percent of physicians say they plan to leave patient care within the next three years, according to a recent poll by the Physicians Foundation. That spells big trouble for healthcare reform and for medicine in general. If even half of that number of doctors retire, find administrative positions, or leave healthcare entirely, we’re going to have medical assistants taking care of patients and the remaining doctors tearing out their hair in frustration.

Medical coding guidance on prevention planning; the ICD-10 transition; ABN advice; and more.

It's been a wild year in healthcare. And you ain't seen nothing yet.

Happy but worried, American physicians are sorting through the many changes their profession is seeing.

Take a page from your mortgage company. Instead of sending self-pay patients on a payment plan statements every month, give them coupons.

The New York Times has an interesting blog entry today regarding steps patients can take to cut either their wait times at their physician visits or take another attempt at trimming: by seeking a discount.

Imagine if the latest solution to delaying Medicare reimbursement cuts were a pharma commercial.