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Real healthcare reform will remain elusive as long as management accepts the notion that the way to fix healthcare is to automate it.

Sometimes, procedures lack RVU values for a reason. If you must, however, here are two strategies to use when assigning RVU values on your own.

Companies are pushing physician-based telemedicine as a solution. But, while promoters may have not thought things through, physicians must.

Coming together to benefit from economies of scale is good for physicians and their patients. One way to do that is to form a super group.

Small, independent medical practices are struggling to thrive alongside larger networks; here's what they can do about it.

In order to help patients with diabetes who need my services most, I've implemented some pre-screening efforts to help prioritize our patient panel.

Here's what the requirement to be "commercially reasonable" means under the Stark Law and Anti-kickback Statute and what physicians need to know.

Here are five things that physicians can do to mitigate the risk of not only frivolous suits, but legitimate ones.

Charge capture has evolved, from paper to PC to PDA and now to mobile applications, providing physicians with better access to patient data.

Increasing revenue and decreasing practice expenses are often misguided goals. Each is a proxy for the more effective goal of increasing net income.

Healthcare - like education - relies heavily on people and as such, can never become the ideal smoothly running machine that many dream of.

In the new value-based reimbursement environment, co-management arrangements can align the interests of physicians and hospitals. Here's what you need to know.

Get unique insight into the personal and professional lives of physicians through the results of the 2014 Great American Physician Survey, Sponsored by Kareo.

Whether actively marketing your practice for sale, or curious about the process, here are four steps to help you make informed decisions about the future.

Understanding the principles of leasing medical office space will enable practices to negotiate a lower-cost and equitable leasing agreement.

Smart use of your patient portal can not only help physicians meet meaningful use rules, but also foster better patient interactions.

Welcome to "This Old EHR," where we look at why your system is lot like older homes: built using outdated methods and in constant danger of structural issues.

Your medical practice's value plays an important part in its future. Here are six ways to boost your practice's value, starting today.

The gap between having an EHR and meeting meaningful use is wide. Here are three tips to narrow the divide.

Value-based reimbursement has a bad reputation because it is misunderstood. Done correctly, through an IPA, it could be primary care’s saving grace.

Recording family health history may be one of the easier meaningful-use objectives - because you likely already do it and due to an interesting loophole.

Unless a member of the medical practice team is intimately involved in the cash flow process, they probably don't know what is affordable for the practice.

Social marketing, search engine optimization, practice marketing' are all good, but 'here are three sure things to increase revenues at minimal cost.

It is important for practices to participate in patient-centered programs in order to focus their culture on improving the patient experience.

In the three years since the first providers began attesting, meaningful use has already started benefiting patients.

Here are some easy ways to improve productivity and empower your staff members.

Many medical practices today are sick; it's time to quit avoiding the symptoms and look for the cure.

The concept of population health is straightforward. Achieving it, not so much, because it requires numerous fundamental changes in our delivery system.

If you are willing to trade short-term frustration for long-term financial gain, here are three key areas of potential savings for your medical practice.

Technology can solve your business problems, but it has to be the right system with the right partner to truly result in success.