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How practices can reduce patient acquisition costs
Patient acquisition costs can quickly cut into your practice's profits.
Practice tip of the week: Hiring staff
Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.
17 inches: Health care lessons from a college baseball coach
You can't keep widening the plate.
Prescribing resilience: Attracting cybersecurity talent to healthcare
Strategies medical practices can employ to attract, retain, and develop cybersecurity talent, ensuring ongoing protection against cyber threats.
Revolutionizing physician scheduling: The power of AI in physician practices
How health systems can leverage artificial intelligence to reduce patient no-shows, revolutionize physician scheduling and improve patient outcomes.
5 biggest barriers when moving to value-based care
‘Winging it’ is not the right approach when providers integrate social determinants of health into care models.
Navigating the ACO landscape: A guide for providers striving for value-based care
The crucial decision of which ACO to join requires careful consideration of various factors.
Physicians Practice digital edition: New HHS rules
Your monthly collection of insights from the Physicians Practice Pearls writers is available now!
Practice tip of the week: Put your collections department out of business
Physician flexibility: Bamboo or oak?
How we cope with adversity will ultimately determine our mental and physical health.
The payer-provider partnership: AI a bridge to better outcomes
The crux of payer-provider collaboration lies in alignment.
A couple of privacy items heading into summer
Don't let the summer fun get in the way of protecting patient privacy.
Patients share the blame
Patients aren't blameless in the current state of health care in America.
Practice tip of the week: Texting patients
5 new issues physicians should consider prior to selling their practice
Many of these items should be addressed in advance of going to market or accepting indications of interest from potential buyers.
Top Challenges survey results
See what challenges practices are facing this year.
Medical practice valuations
Historically, valuations were largely considered the total earnings of the owner, whereas investors focus on the profits of the business as a basis for valuation.
Practice tip of the week: Reducing accounts receivable turnaround
Crushing contract negotiations
Three tips for negotiating your employment contract.
An emerging anti-kickback scheme to watch
In-house counsel and compliance staff should learn from this case and adapt training accordingly.
A modern practice’s guide to the patient experience
Focusing on creating a pleasant and thorough patient experience is necessary for the health of a practice.
What to know before investing in a surgery center
Physicians who buy into these facilities receive a share of the value and, depending on the facility will be required to invest some of their own surgical expertise there.
Practice tip of the week: Improving prior auth burdens
Insurance and cyberattacks
Contingent business interruption coverage may protect providers from losses experienced indirectly as a result of a cyberattack.
Healthcare costs and the promise to “do no harm”
Less than 1 in 5 physicians and approximately 1 in ten residents were able to provide a price estimate within ±25% of true values across all surveyed costs, charges, and reimbursements.
Controlling overhead costs
While the primary focus remains on providing exceptional patient care, a medical facility’s financial health is crucial for its sustainability and growth.
Payer negotiations
Consider the puffer fish
Resolving the employee shortage in medical practices
Exploring practical strategies to address staffing shortages in medical practices and ensure the delivery of quality patient care.
Patients, providers (and payers)
Here are 11 ways you can, and should, engage in grassroots advocacy for your practice, your patients and yourself.
Staff shortages — The root cause of the problem
Many medical practices and hospitals need to fill positions, placing stress on the existing staff.
