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Here are some key issues for either physicians on their way to starting up their own medical practice, or current owners seeking ways to refine their current office.

Conducting video visits over an Internet connection is going mainstream.

Strategic staffing: Get your pieces in the right places

We'll help you accurately measure your overhead costs -- and compare them to national benchmarks.

Taking control, even mentally, of the medical business you run or own is no longer a luxury and is required for your survival.

Going into solo practice has had its rewards and challenges

There are three lessons all physicians can learn from a story a doctor’s wife recently shared regarding a life-changing incident.

The AMA is working to stop the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10. Does that mean medical practices should stop preparing?

Perhaps Congress hopes some sort of solution to the SGR will unexpectedly land on its doorstep. And perhaps it finally has - in the form of unspent war funds.

Driving skills: learning to navigate the road to a successful medical career

You've purchased the technology needed to keep tabs on your practice's operations. Now make sure you're looking at the right reports.

Be willing to take action and responsibility as the CEO of your medical business including delegating the management of financial issues to experts.

Converting the back of an ambulance to a modern office now allows me to see my patients at their home or work in my mobile office.

If you truly want to have a thriving practice … then you have to shift your mentality and attitude about how your practice is run.

Feel like you can't do the fee-for-service practice model anymore? Here are several examples of new models in primary care that may the answer for you.

Here’s the story of how one physician was successfully able to create a practice so lean and efficient that he runs and manages it completely by himself.

Here's how to rethink the work day to find the balance you need with the rest of your life as a physician.

While medical practices vary widely in complexity and income, the successful ones all share one common trait: they plan ahead and look to the past for guidance.

The transition from full time to part time can be a difficult one. Here's how to make it work for you and your practice.

Why physician Katharina Scharruhn thinks about the public's view of doctors and the image she wishes they would see as diametrically opposed.

The proposal would help physicians dodge a 29.5 percent pay to Medicare services, but it would slam them with other - perhaps more serious - problems.

Despite efforts to educate all clients that any payment for referrals is illegal, kickbacks continue to be paid.

More physicians are opting for employment over the partnership track, hoping to avoid the headaches and hassles of owning a business. But is that that the right choice for you?

Poor layout and cramped quarters can decrease efficiency and patient well-being - here are some simple, low-cost solutions.

To simply dismiss outsourcing hurts you, your practice, and possibly your patients.

Like all other arrangements into which physicians enter, you must take a moment to consider whether there are any regulatory implications.

All three of my ideas are not radical to all, but I think everyone will find at least one of these ideas is a way to take you to that opposite extreme.

RVUs determine the amount Medicare, Medicaid, and private payers compensate physicians for various services. But it’s long been questioned whether RVUs are fair.

Bartering is a concept that is generally not practiced in today's times. In years past when patients had no money to pay their physician, it was common for them to bring an object other than money for payment: a chicken, a barrel of vegetables, etc.