Personal Finance

It is critical that physicians carefully explore what ACO opportunities may mean to their practice and career, including malpractice, liability and disability insurance.

Want to reduce tax-time stress? Here’s how to pick the best CPA for your needs.

Here are some resolutions to help direct your energy and identify areas to improve.

Don't lose time you could be managing your practice, seeing patients, or spending time with family to micromanage your finances. Get some outside help instead.

Proper asset protection starts with malpractice insurance, but it doesn't end there. Here's how to mitigate risks coming from all directions.

Here are three issues that need to be on your shortlist for 2013 to re-visit and address proactively to help you and your medical practice.

One hundred articles for doctors on law and business later, and you still have some great questions.

The medical business is a microcosm of the larger economy itself, in which the lack of cash flow has become all too common.

Developing a comprehensive strategy to decrease or transfer risk should be part of every physician's financial plan.

Physicians need to be aware of the steps to take with original ideas that involve medical products, computer applications, and other intellectual property.

The end of the Bush-era tax cuts is likely on the horizon. Here's what it means for physicians and how they can begin preparing today.

Here are some issues to consider that may help you prioritize and pick your battles.

Here is a summary of the conventional plans currently available from a reliable source that does not want to sell you anything.

In our 2012 Physician Compensation Survey, we asked physicians from around the country how - and how much - they're being paid. Here's what we learned.

This week we look at the LLC and how doctors can use it to hold and protect real estate, and when they can’t.

As a physician you must apply the same techniques to management of your personal finances that you would in evaluating and caring for a patient.

Here are some of the appropriate uses of limited liability corporations by physicians - and some inappropriate uses as well.

Here are three tips to prepare your medical practice for success in the 21st century.

This week we provide some basic questions you can ask to help qualify your own asset-protection counsel and move towards being protected the right way.

A recent report by NPR's Planet Money team got one thing right and a lot of things wrong when it comes to asset protection.

Physicians and their brokers must avoid being tempted by the low-cost leader “of the moment” and ensure the best medical liability and disability insurance carrier.

Here's a look at the high and low points of withdrawals and distributions of cash and profits from your medical practice.

Here are a few key issues physicians need to start thinking about and talking to their advisors about immediately.

It's time to start thinking about what would happen if a key member of your medical practice were no longer there.

The qualities associated with an excellent physician are not always those associated with successful business people. Here's how you can strive to be both.

Here are just two of the issues that have taken physician practice owners by surprise over the last 12 months.

Here's an answer to a common question from physicians: "How can I quickly figure out what I have exposed at any given time?"

Protecting what you've worked for starts with having the right malpractice insurance, but it doesn't end there. Here's how to mitigate risks coming from all directions.

The “Seven Deadly Sins” easily represent human nature, business, and spending issues you must overcome as a healthcare executive and practice owner.

A look at an insurance-based strategy to protect a medical practice’s income after the individual physicians’ personal assets are well secured.