February 11th 2025
The 2025 Staff Salary Survey reveals the ongoing struggle practices have to maintain adequate staffing levels.
February 10th 2025
Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.
February 3rd 2025
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November 27th 2024
Empowering the healthcare workforce is critical to not only improving employee retention and wellbeing, but also to delivering safer patient care.
Legal Pitfalls When Employing Nonphysician Providers
Nonphysician providers can help counteract the physician shortage, but be sure to consider these important legal requirements when employing them.
ICD-10 Education and Training Planning
While the ICD-10 compliance date is nearly a year away, now is the time to begin training and education planning. Here are some tips.
Year-end Resource Planning for Medical Practices
With December upon us, we are just a few short weeks away the new year. Is your medical practice prepared with the necessary resources to turn the calendar?
Where You Might Be Losing Money at Your Medical Practice (Part II)
Downcoding, overstaffing, and lack of follow-up on denials are all possible places your medical practice is losing precious revenue.
What to Do with Patient Gifts, Treats at Your Medical Practice
Over the next month, your office will be inundated with treats and gifts for your medical staff. How much is enough? Here are some options to spread the goodwill.
Ten Reasons a Physicians Practice Can Be Thankful This Year
Be thankful for every patient that walks in your door, and for a lot of other things, too.
Making Time for Pharmaceutical Reps at Your Medical Practice
An efficient policy for dealing with pharmaceutical reps visiting your medical practice keeps them, as well as your staff and patients, happy.
Discipline a Key Factor in Medical Practice Productivity
A friend from my past, let's call her Dr. Fabulous, taught me four key lessons to improve productivity in a medical practice and in life.
Stay Interviews: How to Keep Medical Practice Staff on the Job
Exit interviews tell you why good people are leaving – after they've left. Stay interviews help understand an employee's concerns while she is still on the job.
With the Election Over, Time to Refocus on Improving Healthcare
President Obama and the Affordable Care Act survived Election Day, but there are real threats to patients and healthcare professionals looming on the horizon.
Giving Pay Raises to Practice Staff
Here are the dos and don'ts of rewarding your hardworking employees.
How Obama's Re-election Will Change Medical Practice Staff
President Obama’s victory means key health reform initiatives will move forward. For many medical practices, that means big staffing changes are on the horizon.
Medical Practice Business Continuity Planning: It's Worth the Time
Whether Hurricane Sandy impacted your medical practice directly or not, it is a clear reminder of the importance of business continuity planning.
The Importance of Medical Practice Operations Documentation
Does your medical practice have one employee that has all of the answers? Here's why this is a dangerous process to support.
The Power of Medical Practice Employee Engagement
Stephanie Rollheiser, vice president of CompHealth Locum Tenens, explains how to get medical practice staff truly engaged in their jobs.
The Importance of Structure in Medical Practice Operations
Pimmie Lopez of Practice Colleagues discusses the importance of structure in running your medical practice, from clear expectations to the use of health IT.
Terminating Medical Practice Staff: Be Sure to Follow the Law
Make sure your medical practice is on top of its legal responsibilities, especially when it comes to terminating the employment of a staff member.
Your Medical Practice Handbook: Guidelines to Consider
Putting together an employee handbook for your medical practice is not only a smart thing to do legally, but good for staff management.
Improve Staff Performance at Your Medical Practice
Here are three simple tactics to improve responsiveness, productivity, and accuracy among your medical practice employees.
Healthcare Will Continue to Evolve No Matter Presidential Election
The election is less than two weeks away, and no matter if the Affordable Care Act is preserved or repealed, healthcare continues to evolve.
Organizational Health: How It Can Drive Your Practice's Success
A healthy organization is crucial to success, but many practices are plagued by dysfunction.
Staff Bonuses May Increase Medicare AWV Scheduling
Medical practices need to start looking at the AWV as a business and healthcare opportunity. Offering staff bonuses to schedule the visits may help.
A Dress Code for Your Medical Practice Staff
Whether you work for a huge medical conglomerate or a small private clinic, you may not have much say regarding what you wear to do your job. You do, however, have full control over how you wear it.
Four Critical Communication Skills in the Medical Home Model
Improving physician and staff communication is critical to Patient-Centered Medical Home Success. Here are some tips.
My Medical Mentor: An Old-school Military Physician
Like her own mentor, this physician encouraged her residents to embrace the fear that comes with obstetrics and conquer it to become confident and competent physicians.
Patient Insurance Verification: Saving your Practice's A/R
If you aren't asking your patients about insurance changes when they make an appointment at your medical practice, you are already losing money.
How to Prepare Your Medical Practice for the 21st Century
Here are three tips to prepare your medical practice for success in the 21st century.
Ben Carson, MD: Consult Staff, Patients Prior to Big Changes
Before making any big changes at your medical practice, neurosurgeon Ben Carson advises you consult two important stakeholders: your patients and your staff.
Catching Mistakes When Paying Bills for Your Medical Practice
The phone bill, utilities, bank charges - dealing with these bills at your medical practice should mirror your personal approach.
Using Medical Practice Staff to Improve Your Bottom Line
Two healthcare experts weigh in on how staff development and engagement efforts can boost practice revenue.