Staff

A change by CMS to its claims submission process for Medicare Advantage affects both physicians and their practices. Here's what you need to know.

Practice employees are more than salaries. If you use them in the right places at the right time, they are revenue generators supporting your physicians.

Holding staff accountable is crucial to your practice's success. Doing so will make sure that everyone is committed to both the practice and patients.

Dealing with difficult personalities and the resulting conflicts that arise can be an everyday occurrence at many practices. Here's how to address such issues more effectively.

Here are four common difficult personality types you may have as employees at your medical practice and how to deal with them.

To truly be ready for the ICD-10 transition, start your communications now: with your physicians, your staff, and your tech vendors.

Finding the optimal way to use NPs and PAs as part of the care team is not an easy task since not all universally agree upon the role they wish to have.

Here are three tips to how physicians can improve relationships with their practice management teams from expert Charlie Hauck.

According to legendary football coach Lou Holtz, the keys to success in life and as a healthcare professional include having a good attitude, having passion, and making good choices.

Laura Palmer of the MGMA says a little patience in hiring your next medical practice staff member goes a long way. Here are eight tips to find the right fit.

If your medical practice staff members aren't doing these eight things, it's time to make teamwork a bigger priority.

Robert M. Tennant of the MGMA explores how to keep patient interactions at your medical practice HIPAA compliant.

Frustration goes way down when expectations are explicit and achievable. Frustration with staff provides a good example of the theory.

Health reform is forcing many medical practices to change how they do business. Here's how physicians can help their managers, partners, and staff adjust.

Two nurses exposed to the Ebola virus in Dallas should not be scolded, as the CDC has done, but praised for their dedicated service to the public.

Last-minute holiday vacation requests can put a strain on your practice. Here are some ways to avoid the turmoil.

The key to dealing with problem medical practice employees who question your decisions is moving quickly to fix the behavior. Here's what I recommend.

A new national poll not only validates physician assistant care, but verifies what I've known about my profession for years.

Conflict between medical practice staff can devastate a practice. Here's how to prevent and/or deal with it appropriately.

In the spirit of Halloween, I've identified three common physician hiring horror stories. Here's how you can avoid them.

Keeping your team informed of administrative policies will help keep billing and collection errors in check.

From reviewing state laws to understanding reimbursement, the American Academy of Physician Assistants offers six tips to hiring a physician assistant.

From nonphysician providers to advanced practitioners, PAs are referred to in many ways. Here's what one PA says is the appropriate terminology.

The most common concern raised about medical practice staffing is cost. I would argue that other factors should be looked at first.

This infographic, from the American Academy of Physician Assistants and Barton Associates, give you the data behind the physician assistant workforce.