Staff

Don’t let your practice fall short when it comes to workplace safety policies and procedures. Here are some tips.

Nonphysician providers can help counteract the physician shortage, but be sure to consider these important legal requirements when employing them.

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.

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?

Downcoding, overstaffing, and lack of follow-up on denials are all possible places your medical practice is losing precious revenue.

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.

Be thankful for every patient that walks in your door, and for a lot of other things, too.

An efficient policy for dealing with pharmaceutical reps visiting your medical practice keeps them, as well as your staff and patients, happy.

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.

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.

President Obama and the Affordable Care Act survived Election Day, but there are real threats to patients and healthcare professionals looming on the horizon.

Here are the dos and don'ts of rewarding your hardworking employees.

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.

Whether Hurricane Sandy impacted your medical practice directly or not, it is a clear reminder of the importance of business continuity planning.

Does your medical practice have one employee that has all of the answers? Here's why this is a dangerous process to support.

Stephanie Rollheiser, vice president of CompHealth Locum Tenens, explains how to get medical practice staff truly engaged in their jobs.

Make sure your medical practice is on top of its legal responsibilities, especially when it comes to terminating the employment of a staff member.

Putting together an employee handbook for your medical practice is not only a smart thing to do legally, but good for staff management.

Here are three simple tactics to improve responsiveness, productivity, and accuracy among your medical practice employees.

The election is less than two weeks away, and no matter if the Affordable Care Act is preserved or repealed, healthcare continues to evolve.

A healthy organization is crucial to success, but many practices are plagued by dysfunction.

Medical practices need to start looking at the AWV as a business and healthcare opportunity. Offering staff bonuses to schedule the visits may help.

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.

Improving physician and staff communication is critical to Patient-Centered Medical Home Success. Here are some tips.

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.