Using RVUs to conduct a cost analysis at your medical practice is not only cheap and easy, it is very effective at assessing the value of your payer contracts.
ICD-10 is here, so be sure your medical practice is addressing all related issues to avoid a hit to your bottom line.
What do practices need to know about coding for advance care planning? Here is some guidance from the AAPC's John Verhovshek.
Here are six basic requirements to meet incident-to guidelines and get properly reimbursed for your care.
Planning on building an engaging website to attract patients? Here are nine tips that should get you started.
Revealing three ways that the primary healthcare stakeholders can shift their behavior to succeed in value-based healthcare.
These tips can help you choose the right buyer for your practice.
What is true for marriage relationships is equally true for relationships with your staff in your practice.
Meaningful Use continues to be a pain in the neck for one doctor, who is struggling to attest as a private practice physician.
We are deep into interview season now. Fresh scrubbed senior medical students come from all over the world to sit in front of my desk, drink bad coffee, eat stale donuts, and regale me with their self-congratulatory exploits of derring-medical-do, sprinkled with an appropriate amount of wanting-to-serve-humanity humility.
Conversation-practicing simulations is a new method for physicians and providers to improve a critical element of healthcare: communication.
The key to providing perks is to understand what is meaningful to employees. Obtain their input and design perks that reward hard work and dedication.
Nurses can play a critical role in improving the healthcare system for patients alongside physicians. Here's how.
Internist Gregg Friedman on his infant daughter's struggle for survival.
What physicians should consider when choosing their path.
Patient compliance is not a new issue – doctors have been dealing with it for a long time now, and it’s not going anywhere. But as the healthcare landscape changes and we continue looking for ways to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs, non-compliance presents a significant hurdle.
How the lessons learned from the movie 'The Doctor,' became personal, according to family physician Hanni G. Youssef.
Practices face big cash-flow problems as patients shoulder more of their healthcare costs. Here's how to step up patient payment collections.
Should a physician use her knowledge and craft as a way to help a suffering patient end his life? Here are two sides of the argument.
Pediatrician Helene Hubbard lays out her first term if elected U.S. president with a focus on the nation's younger residents.
PAs in rural areas can fulfill an important role in helping physicians address the needs of female patients.
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Hint: there’s more to it than simply telling patients to “eat a balanced diet.”
As a physician, you are always on the job; even on your flight to a family vacation in Florida when a medical emergency occurs.
Sending your kids to college will cost even more than you think. Here are some novel strategies we bet you haven’t heard before.
You don't have to be a TV doctor to effectively reach a potential audience on Twitter, says new research on doctors using the social media platform.