Physicians Practice Pearls®

Patient care is the top priority for physicians. But in order to provide patients with the best treatment, physicians must take care of their personal, professional, and public priorities.

How to develop an accounts receivable work plan in three steps

Here are four strategies that can go a long way towards creating a culture where people feel engaged, empowered, and supported. And the happier your staff, the greater your patient satisfaction.

Efforts to save money may even weaken the business-and, sometimes, those weakening effects can be very hard to spot.

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

It’s important to support medical conversations and instructions with clear documentation using straightforward language on well-thought-out forms. Here are a few suggestions to help you get started.

Six tips that can help physicians collect on services not covered by third parties.

Why you should consider adding an in-house clinical research department to your practice

The days of the traditional practice are greatly diminished.

The ongoing battle to get patients the treatments they need is a major contributor to physician burnout.

Burnout is not about broken doctors and nurses. It is about a broken system.

Nine areas that every partnership agreement should consider.

If you don’t identify the coding issues, know that your potential buyer will.

How this primary care physician is attempting to bring more balance into her life.

Effective onboarding can help ensure your new hire knows what is expected and becomes productive more quickly.

Monitoring glucose levels is important for managing diabetes. CVS Pharmacy now limits quantities of diabetic testing supplies to meet Medicare Part B’s medical necessity requirements, superseding doctor’s orders.

How physicians can protect themselves from unethical testimony by an ‘expert’ witness.

The number of things we do in the business of medicine that have no direct bearing on patient health or well-being is astounding.

Three ways medical practices can manage opportunities for bundled episodes of care.

The drivers of burnout are too numerous and complex for any individual physician to address alone. But there are steps physicians can take to reduce their stress levels and improve their cognitive functioning and well-being.

Valentine’s Day-a day both revered and reviled-is a good time to reflect on how to make medical relationships not only work but thrive.

Here are three simple adjustments that can help you ensure others understand what you're trying to convey. 

If we are not smart about how we implement digital health, we may have results similar to the EHR.

Five questions managers and physicians should ask and answer before jumping into acquisition. 

Think about what you want to accomplish this year, then list how you can achieve your goals.

As physicians, we will need to be specialists in both our own medical field and in the integration of care for our patients.

You cannot avoid employee mistakes, but you can make sure the same mistake isn't made twice.

The only thing certain in life is change. Learn how one physician is coping with the transition back to solo practice following her associate’s departure.

We all want to help alleviate our patients’ pain. However, the word pain should not produce a knee-jerk reaction of prescribing pain medication.

Computerized records are not going away, so it is imperative to develop strategies to mitigate and cope with the stress EHRs are causing-for physicians and for patients.