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As patients shoulder more of their healthcare costs, practices must step up patient payment collections efforts. Here are some tips.

The more partners in a physician-owned practice, the more difficult it can be to address problems. Here's how to overcome the inertia.

Despite many advantages, the AWV is a free service that virtually no one knows about. Don't miss out on clear benefits to patients and your practice.

Want to save time and boost reimbursement at your medical practice? Offer shared medical visits. Here's how.

Robert Tennant of the Medical Group Management Association offers tips to practices to create a strategy for the ICD-10 transition.

More than ever, and while you may not want to accept it, practicing medicine is running a business. And you have to make changes that reflect this thinking.

Despite the doom and gloom associated with ICD-10, the new codes could actually provide better care for patients and better reimbursement to physicians.

Now is the season for planning and creating a strategy for a practice that can survive the future. Here are six roles to fill at your office today.

If physicians are going absorb additional patients and regulations of healthcare reform, they'll need their EHRs to provide better tools and impose fewer tasks.

My fellow physicians, we are a really smart group of people that have not received the proper instruction for the business world.

Free health clinics will not only continue to see an increased demand for patients, but they might even take some from private practices.

How one medical practiced saved more than $390,000 and got financially stable.

Providing quality patient care is a prime contributor to physician satisfaction, while negative factors associated with EHRs increased physician frustration.

Enterprise risk management can be a valuable tool for medical practices in anticipating, planning, and preventing certain patient care decisions.

Business expert and author Sam Silverstein urges medical practices to establish their beliefs, never stray from them, and to cut out excuses.

If not knowing how your practice is doing overall keeps you awake at night, it's time to start monitoring eight simple metrics for measure.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month is an ideal time for providers to educate patients on prevention efforts and the quest for a cure.

Fraud involving the Automated Clearing House (ACH) network and small businesses is growing. Here's how practices can protect their accounts.

Whether the Affordable Care Act, ICD-10, or the Stage 2 rules for meaningful use, look at these changes as opportunities, not obstacles.

In the rush to meet meaningful use guidelines, physicians may have won the battle but lost the war as poor or faulty implementation of EHRs increases risk.

Turn patient skepticism into enthusiasm about your medical practice's EHR implementation.

Keeping an eye on medical practice employees can be tricky, so implement transparency, accountability and expectation into their daily work life.

The AWV not only provides evidence-based preventative services and care coordination, but also identifies high-risk over-utilizers of healthcare.

Joining a large group is tempting; but it may lead to less autonomy and in years to come, greater risk. Concierge programs can help offset loss of independence.

An active line of credit helps guarantee that a practice's cash needs are met. Here's how it works and how to get one.

There are varying beliefs by those in healthcare when it comes to utilization of EHRs …until something goes wrong with the system.

Patients are asking how Obamacare will affect my practice. Here's what's happened so far and what could happen in the near future for my staff and patients.

Looking for a way to keep your medical practice private? Consider becoming a group without walls which groups offices, but maintains autonomy.

Perhaps it would be better to put doctors in charge of patient care, rather than paint-by-number regulations.

Team-based healthcare relies on everyone working together for the benefit of the patient. And under health reform, having an effective team has its rewards.