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Clive Fields, MD

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Provide Proactive Care with Complex Patients

This final part of a two-part series focuses on providing proactive care and measuring the results of complex patients.


Conor Murphy

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What You Need to Know About Office-Based Surgery Laws

A brief overview of laws and issues related to office based surgical practices.


Dave Fasoli

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Three Strategies to Communicate Costs to Patients

Here are some strategies practices should take to better communicate medical costs to patients.


Kerri Wing, RN

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A Guide to Reporting on MACRA in 2018

Medicare's Quality Payment Program (QPP) is a little different in 2018 than it was in 2017. Here is a guide to this year's reporting requirements.


Angela Oest, MPH, PA-C

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Certified PAs are Allies in Treatment of Allergies

Certified PAs can be an invaluable tool for practices with spring allergy season quickly approaching.


Heather Lavoie

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Reversing Physician Burnout While Increasing Physician Trust in Value-Based Care

There are small but significant steps all of us who work in healthcare can take to stop physician burnout and better engage physicians in value-based care.


Frieda Wiley, PharmD

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A unicorn example of seamless physician-pharmacist collaboration gives other organization clues

The push for enhanced collaboration between healthcare professionals continues building momentum. 


Josh Weiner

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The price of patient relationships

Including funds in your budget dedicated to technological investments that improve the patient experience will be worth it in the long run.


Jon Carter

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Hacking

Add this to your list of homonyms. 


Karen Zupko

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Refresh your referral building

Referrals are key to growing a medical practice and increasing revenue. Here are five ways a practice can build its referral network.


Rebekah Bernard MD

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5 Tips for negotiating the best physician employment contract

There are simple tools that can help us achieve the best employment contract.


Michael Enos, CPC, CPMA

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3 billing codes physicians should use

You’re probably already doing the work. Get paid for more of it.


Julie Knudson

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Pursue your passions with a portfolio career

A growing number of physicians are taking their careers and schedules into their hands through multiple part-time jobs and revenue streams.


Vincent Cucuzza

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Smart investing for physicians

Savings, strategies, and stocks.


Linda Wilson

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Preparing for a coding and billing audit

Most audits concern outpatient visits.


David Raths

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Gain control of your personal life

Physicians share how they manage work-life balance while having a meaningful career in medicine.


Larry Bridge

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How ‘adjacent space’ acquisitions are changing the healthcare industry

Physicians and practices should keep a keen eye on healthcare mergers and acquisitions in order to serve their patients-and remain in business.


Erik Leander

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Malpractice insurance coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic

Answers to the most common questions being asked by physicians.


Lucien W. Roberts, III, MHA, FACMPE

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10 collection tactics for your high-deductible patients

High-deductible health plans are on the rise. Here are 10 methods to ensure your practice collects from patients with these plans.


Lisa A. Eramo, MA

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9 Tips for collecting from patients

Collecting copayments and coinsurance can be challenging.


Melissa Young, MD

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When it doesn’t pay to treat patients

Practices sometimes can’t afford to administer treatment to patients given the risk of denied reimbursement claims.


Kareo

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Survey identifies top challenges for independent physicians

The state of the independent practice 


Bill Dacey, MBA, MHA, CPC, CPC-I

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Coding Q&A: Problem areas with 99495 and 99496

There are two principal criteria that need to direct physicians’ code assignment once they have decided to use a TCM code.


Avery Hurt

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6 tips to boost billing and collections

Here are six resolutions that can improve your billing and collections in 2020.


Kevin G. Donoghue, JD

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Tips for addressing negative online reviews

Steps prior to considering litigation.


Angela Watkins

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7 staff roles practices should consider adding

Changes in the healthcare industry are necessitating new roles at practices. Here are seven positions you might consider adding to assist patients and staff.


Jennifer Frank, MD

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We must address social determinants of health

When physicians don't talk to patients about social determinants of health, they miss the bigger picture. 


Sherree Geyer

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Physicians working fewer hours due to furloughs and layoffs

COVID19 fallout is causing a heretofore unexperienced staffing crisis.


Joe Capko

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4 Branding Tips for Your Medical Practice

Branding is just for companies that create consumer goods like soda and cars? Wrong. Practices need to worry about branding too.


Julie Miller

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How to help your patients with opioid addiction

Primary care physicians can help fight the opioid epidemic by offering medication assisted treatment.

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